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Education 3.0: Helping All Children Reach their Potential
The alternative is to make achievement the constant, and allow each student the time she or he needs to learn. As described in the new book, Reinventing Schools: It’s Time to Break the Mold, this one change requires six massive changes throughout all aspects of an educational system.
10 Trends Driving the Future of Education
I believe the ultimate power of blended and online learning lies in the potential to transform the education system and enable higher levels of student-centered learning through competency-based approaches.
Visions of Personalized Learning in Denver
While some schools are buying truckloads of tablets, thoughtful districts are holding conversations about the potential of personalized learning. The right first step, as recommended in the Blended Learning Implementation Guide, is starting with clear goals and a sound strategy.
Pearson Implements Efficacy Frame & Shares it With Sector
The Incomplete Guide to Delivering Learning Outcomes, authored by Sir Michael Barber, Pearson's Chief Education Advisor, and Saad Rizvi, SVP of Efficacy, "the report shares Pearson's 'Efficacy Framework', a review process designed to evaluate and improve impact on learning outcomes, and sets out the company's strategy, initiatives and insights in applying it."
Come Along on My Blended Journey
No one ever said blended learning was easy. Especially from the teacher’s viewpoint. Without a doubt, facilitating an educational environment based on many types of brick-and-mortar delivery models and online content made available by a digital learning platform is the most effective and well-rounded approach to teaching. But again, there is a learning curve.
Disrupting the Space-Time Continuum: Competency-based Learning Explained
Competency-based learning allows students to circumvent the accumulation of excessive and often-wasted credits simply for the sake of fulfilling (what many believe to be) an arbitrarily defined term of study along the aforementioned continuum.
What Role Should States Play in the Shift to Personalized Learning?
Designing a high performance school model with an aligned and integrated IT stack is a tall order. State agencies, improvement districts, and funders should encourage schools to work together in networks [link] that share school models and platforms.
10 Best Practices to Enrich the Blended Learning Environment
After some great conversations, here are 10 important points to think about when implementing and creating blended learning spaces.
Z-enders Game
Gen Zs are resilient. Digital content and constant gaming have not only rewired their minds, it’s also led them to disregard “no-win scenarios.” This is the generation that cheats on the Kobayashi Maru test.
10 Design Choices of Competency-Based Schools
The shift from time to learning changes everything. Most obviously it changes how students move through an education system and earn credentials. But it also changes how learning opportunities are structured and supported by educators.