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Personalized Learning
Student Motivation Matters: 25 Tips and Strategies
A new report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reviews what we know about student motivation. It's a great summary of academic research on motivation, but it stops short of illuminating the path forward.
Personalized Learning
Agilix Launches Updated Personalized Learning Solution
Agilix Labs, Inc. announced the launch of Buzz, a personalized learning solution. Read what we are excited about and hear why two teachers are all about Buzz.
Personalized Learning
Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?
It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.
Leadership
Fulton County Schools Customizes Personalized Learning Implementation
By: Jennifer Klein. When it comes to personalized learning for Atlanta's Fulton County Schools, one size does not fit all. As a charter district that seeks make decisions closest to its students, Fulton County Schools has created a customized implementation pathway for each of its 94 schools.
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Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles
A DLN Smart Series paper that purposes the use of data and learner profiles that track, preferences, motivations, and personal accomplishments of students to meet the evolving needs of teachers, students, and parents.
Leadership
How to Give Students a Chance at the Game
As Putnam describes in his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, it is key that we move towards a collective responsibility, and a “return to being a nation where there are only ‘our kids,’ not just ‘my kids.’”
EdTech
What Can We Learn About Personalized Learning from Individualized Education Plans?
By: Karla Phillips. The goal of an individualized education plans (IEPs) for students with special needs is finally beginning to extend to ALL students with the movement towards personalization. Central to the idea of personalization are the concepts of learner profiles. So, what can we learn about learner profiles from IEPs?
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Mozilla and the Quest for Universal Web Literacy
Since schools and organizations will utilize the software created by companies like Mozilla, it’s increasingly important that there be open dialogue keeping the free exchange of ideas flowing. It is here that we get to the crux of whole-scale change: universal web literacy
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Implementation Challenges on the Path to Personalization
There are several technical challenges to delivering on the promise of personalized learning including defining a standard student record, boosting interoperability, and combining multiple formative sources. However, there are additionally daunting implementation barriers related to school models, leadership and parents.
EdTech
9 Ways to Get Your Grammar Game On: A Playlist
At the end of nearly every school year, a few parents will ask me for recommendations for websites or apps to help their children review grammar over the summer. So with the help of my colleague, Sarah Cauthen, I created a grammar review playlist with my students in mind.