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My Generation’s Biggest Challenge

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Jan 30, 2014

By: Aidan Weltner. I want my generation to value the future generations. We have to be the ones who change what a public education looks like. We have to be the ones to inspire others to think about a child’s mind as our most precious resource.

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A Teacher’s Experience: What I Learned Working in Online Schools

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Jan 29, 2014

I'm an advocate for online learning. I've seen its successes, believe in its potential, and understand its challenges. I am not alone. Thousands of other teachers and professional educators across the U.S. have similar positive experiences.

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Lessons from Leading a Career-Focused Early College Flex High School

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Jan 28, 2014

Despite the challenges of navigating uncharted territory, I remain very enthusiastic about the potential of what these new blended school models mean to shifting the education paradigm towards personalized learning for students.

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1st Semester- Gamification and Flipped Class Reflections

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Jan 28, 2014

What I gathered from all their responses was that while majority of the students love the class, both models are not effective tools for ALL students and I am ok with that. For me it means I have to find other ways to motivate and inspire those students these models couldn't reach for whatever reason. That is my challenge for the rest of the semester.

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For School Choice Movement, Whistle Stops are Only the Beginning

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Jan 28, 2014

Urban and rural families, Northerners and Southerners, Republicans and Democrats, teachers and politicians, and most importantly the students are all doning their symbolic yellow scarf to show their support for school choice.

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3 Global Lessons Students Can Learn from A Kickstarter Video

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Jan 28, 2014

The lessons students can learn from this Kickstarter video are valuable to their education. Students will walk away knowing there is an entire world behind a t-shirt, where people who help make the shirts they wear everyday have dreams too.

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Map And/In History

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Jan 27, 2014

From National Geographic to the Library of Congress (to name just two among hundreds of examples), putting maps and mapping tools online has become One of the Things to Do for map-ish people.

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Ways to Implement Safe Social Media for Schools

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Jan 23, 2014

To say the least, social media is occupying more and more of our online time and in many ways is becoming a preferred method of communication. This begs the question: how do we educate today’s students on the best practices of using social networks?

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Platform Understands Students’ Strategies

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Jan 22, 2014

“The platform learns about the student with each of his or her clicks. We learn with the students while the student learns”, says Jessie, who completes with: “The longer the student spends in the platform, the more the platform learns about him or her”.

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A Personal Journey to Help Reinvent Schools

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Jan 22, 2014

It was clear that instruction needs to focus more on learning by doing, collaboration, and competency-based student progress. This represents a fundamental, systemic transformation …

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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