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Ed Policy
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.
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
Expanding Course Access in Louisiana
Louisiana announced that 21 more Course Choice providers made it into the final round of due diligence to become eligible to begin serving students next year.
Personalized Learning
4 Essential Attributes of Personalized Learning
The architectural shift competency-based environments where students progress based on demonstrated mastery isn’t really the goal, it’s just a better way to personalize learning.
EdTech
You May Be a 21st Century Educator If…
Words like “flipped,” “blended,” “asynchronous,” “differentiated,” and “MOOC” are not words to describe how you feel after inhaling a chili hotdog just before riding a roller coaster called the “Vomit Van.” Instead, these words are part of your ever-increasing #edtech vocabulary.
Personalized Learning
Takeaways and New Questions from EAA School Visits
I encourage you to take the time to put a team together or even a cross-district or cross-state team to go visit Nolan Elementary, Phoenix Multicultural, Brenda Scott Academy for Theatre Arts, and Southeastern Technical High School sooner than later. Michigan and Detroit have a lot of volatile political dynamics (i.e things change), and I’d hate for people to miss the chance to see what can happen when you integrate personalized, mastery-based, and blended into a “student-centered” model of learning.
EdTech
Engagement & Employability Driving Next Gen Platforms
Owing to underinvestment and weak demand articulation, learning management systems (LMS) are at least five years behind the growing demand for engaging, learner-centered, competency-based experiences that result in employment (and other favorable outcomes).
Leadership
Seven Trends Impacting Edu-Jobs
Seven Trends. As we explore in a new free e-book Navigating the Digital Shift, a confluence of forces has created the best opportunity we've ever had to dramatically boost achievement and completion rates.
Personalized Learning
Hacking Your Learning Path
To help students hack their learning paths, we will need to help them build a learning infrastructure and teach them how to manage their own learning.