Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Hall, an online professor with the University of Wyoming since 2012 says: “Early in my online career, I marched students, expeditiously, from one weekly deadline to the next. Personalized learning that addresses the way a student best learns is a goal they all strive for. Think about it: Why does it matter?

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Online Learning Social Media Learning LMS 428

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

” It was an experiment in so-called “personalized learning,” where algorithms churned out customized lessons for each student. The study highlights an ongoing conflict between personalized learning and the required annual tests that schools to give students. “Math is cumulative,” he said.

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Personalized Learning Study Learning Report 105

The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Mobile AUP Guide tags: aup favorite Get Your Google Earth Going « Thumann Resources tags: google earth googleearth favorite Prezi Resources tags: prezi favorite Thinking Big About Engagement | Edutopia tags: engagement edutopia favorite How Web-based Tools Change Teaching and Learning tags: technology web2.0

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 13, 2013

Photo Pin : Free Photos for Bloggers via Creative Commons tags: photos creativecommons favorite Five Steps to Starting a Class Blog in 2012 tags: blog blogging favorite Free Technology for Teachers: Five Ways to Visually Explore Wikipedia tags: Wikipedia favorite The Mobile Native: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Toolbox tags: byod favorite Over 25 Links (..)

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BYOD Resources Personal Learning Network Mobility 152

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2012

This reminder is the 2012 NMC Horizon Report K-12 Edition ( You can download it here. 2012 NMC Horizon Report Near Adoption Technologies Where is technology going in the next 5 years, and what might be some things we can expect as educational leaders?

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BYOT Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. By engaging in opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom to real-world learning activities and situations, students are better able to experience personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Resources 64

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021. Personalization and … humanification?

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Online Learning Blackboard Gamification Company 218

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

That’s the question my startup co-founder and I asked ourselves when we reconnected at an apps conference for speech language pathologists in 2012. We started working on our ideas in 2012 and founded Communication APPtitude (CommAPP) officially in 2013. Innovative Ed-Tech Tools Should Bring Real Personalized Learning to Students.

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Social Media iPad Elementary Conference 150

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

The Five District Partnership , which includes Chelsea, was formed in 2012. In 2012, district leaders identified a critical challenge teachers were facing: Over the course of their school careers, thousands of students were moving between cities and having to adjust to a new school environment.

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Mobility Common Core Policies Data 181

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Personal Learning Network (PLN) that I''ve built on Twitter over the past couple of months has become an amazing resource for learning about what''s going on in the educational technology world. The list that follows is a result of that reflection. Hope to see you in the Twitterverse!

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Personal Learning Network Twitter Personalized Learning EdTech 73

User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Many classrooms consist of students from different knowledge backgrounds, multiple cultures, both genders, and students with a range of disabilities or exceptionalities (Alavinia & Fardy, 2012). Diane Laufenberg in What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’? The learner owns their learning.

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Personalized Learning Groups 120

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. I am passionate about technology and its effects on teaching and learning. I was lucky enough to be offered the position, and I left my classroom March of 2012.

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Classroom Personal Learning Network Elementary Course 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

A total of ten (10) studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis, meaning all ten studies: Were published in the English language after having gone through a formal peer review process; Were conducted between 2001 and 2015 (more specifically, the included studies were published between 2005 and 2012); Were conducted in K-12 school settings (..)

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Laptops Study Analysis Learning 279

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Back in 2012, we didn’t have an autoclave, so we were crushing bouillon cubes to make microbacteria media and being creative with microwaves, and it worked. In 2012 when the magnet program was created at Paulding, Pedersen established the high school’s first biotechnology class. That usually happens in Chemistry.”.

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STEM Personalized Learning Course Assessment 137

Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And I know two things for certain: first, many students will go back to in-person learning, but the demand for high-quality online education and shorter, non-degree learning pathways—like boot camps and short courses—will continue to grow as people upskill, reskill and look for greater flexibility in education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

They say I’m personalizing learning. In 2012 I took a job as a general education language arts teacher, working with at-risk youths. In 2012, I transferred to McClarin Success Academy in Fulton County School District. In 2012, the way I was teaching didn’t have a name.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 137

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Five years into a massive transition to a personalized learning model, Educators at Fulton County School District in Georgia are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. Daniel Hodge Back in 2012, ambitious district officials in Fulton County revealed a 5-year plan. It should have been communicated better.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“We do not believe that there is yet definitive proof that personalized learning works better than other models.”­. — All That We’ve Learned: Five Years of Working on Personalized Learning. First the word was blended learning, before it was hybrid, and now it’s personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Blended Learning Assessment Strategy 125

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

I''ve met some great people in the DEN and learned so much. It''s a great Personal Learning Network for any and all educators. September 10 - 14, 2012 the DEN is having and open house to share resources and how the DEN can benefit educators. It''s not just about Discovery Education resources either.

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Resources Common Core Personal Learning Network Education 140

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Community Consolidated School District 93 (CCSD93) in Illinois has been working to shift our instructional delivery system to a more personalized approach since the 2012-13 school year. While many believe that personalized learning is an instructional strategy directly tied to a laptop or tablet, for CCSD93, it goes well beyond that.

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Education Personalized Learning Tablets Laptops 111

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

Milton Bryant is the first to admit that implementing blended learning successfully didn’t come overnight. For the past four years, Bryant has been tirelessly adapting his approach to personalized learning to ensure that each student is thriving, even when that means scrapping ideas that don’t quite pan out.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Case Study Personalized Learning 147

EdNews Daily

JUNE 25, 2018

I decided to come to China to teach after graduating because I was interested in education (wrote senior thesis on education and labor market in America) and traveling (studied in Budapest, Hungary, for a semester in 2012). Things like AI have a big potential to monitor and improve student learning. Click to tweet.

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Technology Learning Course System 41

The Mobile Native

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Then join me for Mobile Learning Experience 2012 April 11-13 in Phoenix, Arizona. It''s my pleasure to be on the team organizing Mobile Learning Experience 2012. Registration for Mobile Learning Experience 2012 is open. You can save $200 if you register before January 20, 2012.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Join me today, Thursday, February 2nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com panel discussion on "Personal Learning Profiles," also referred to in variously as "personal success plans," "learner profiles," or "personalized learning paths." psid=2012-02-02.1707.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The effort, aptly named the “Unified Classroom” product suite, aims to connect assessment, enrollment, gradebook, professional learning and special education data services to its flagship student information system, which already houses a variety of data including attendance, discipline, health, roster and schedules.

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Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 178

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

In the case of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) , when the district began a huge leap to personalized learning, its leaders consciously began designing a communications strategy to bring together students, teachers and families. But that communications strategy went beyond just sharing stories with families and teachers.

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Personalized Learning Strategy Learning Case Study 60

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” FY 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). The Administration’s proposal for College- and Career- Ready Students also will promote the development of State capacity to support district efforts to use technology to improve instruction.” FY 2013 $0. FY 2014 $0. FY 2015 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Mary Earick, project director for NG2, says the purpose of the program is to create more flexible learning pathways for students through “competency-based multiage schooling,” which allows students to move on to new objectives only after mastering others. “[NG2] NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning.

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Assessment Elementary Data Groups 164

BYOT Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. By engaging in opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom to real-world learning activities and situations, students are better able to experience personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Resources 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

But minus breathless press releases, that approach also left CK-12 “under appreciated,” says David Wiley, founder and chief academic officer of Lumen Learning , widely considered one of the foremost thinkers in the OER community. “CK-12 CK-12 is at the forefront of OER by doing adaptive and personalized learning.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. Our investments were small but in the 2011–2012 school year, the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and the Charter School Growth Fund made combined grants in this space of some $40 million.

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Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning 100

The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Nov 18, 2012, 1 comment 2670 If you think a personal learning network is an echo chamber. Nov 20, 2012, 12 comments 2434 5 Reasons to “Gamify” Your Class Nov 15, 2012, 7 comments 2420 A Friendly Guide to Deploying iPads at Your School. Jun 24, 2012, 9 comments 1363' Article Views Want to succeed in STEM?

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Personal Learning Network iPad STEM Personalized Learning 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2012

In this follow-up to our previous interview , we''re going to drill down on the current state of libraries in our visions of education, how the idea of the New Learning Commons could be influence those visions, and how we help students and adults create their own "Personal Learning Environments." psid=2012-01-31.1627.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Personalized Learning Blackboard Libraries Learning 45

Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9] 9] In another study, a professor at Auburn University found that using learning styles to teach concepts to individual students can improve information recall.[15]

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Study Examples 176

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I''ve met some great people in the DEN and learned so much. It''s a great Personal Learning Network for any and all educators. This week, September 10 - 14, 2012, the DEN is having and open house to share resources and how the DEN can benefit educators. It''s not just about Discovery Education resources either.

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Common Core Education Elementary Personal Learning Network 133

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. The goal is to produce deeper learning. s blended learning approach grew out of a district-wide push designed to ratchet up student performance and provide a centralized way to track data from the success of some enterprising schools.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 1, 2013

" -Crystal Kirch, My biggest struggle this year High school math teacher Crystal Kirch’s biggest struggle of 2012 was met with both cheers from those who could commiserate as well as jeers from those who were concerned that students were not the culprit, but rather the victims of a system that set them up for failure.

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Personal Learning Network Twitter Assessment Personalized Learning 83