Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. International License.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden , a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. For CICS West Belden, the “next level” was shifting to a personalized learning model, moving students towards competency-based education.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 26, 2017

In fact, a conservative 30-40% of students may require an alternate learning path or support during their learning. Personalized learning comes into play with such a high level of learner diversity. Research and technology are key to improving personalized learning. WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) works with schools and districts that are focused on designing school models that personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

Many of the 16,000 attendees expected to flock to ISTE 2016 come looking for ideas on how to make smart use of technology in their classrooms and schools, and for a preview of tech trends on the horizon. The list of sessions on tap for ISTE 2016 –there are roughly 1,000 of them–offers some clues on that front. 76 nations.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 28, 2016

billion in the first three quarters of 2015 to $4.3 billion in 2016, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. ( In 2015 there were 323 education industry transactions for the first three quarters of the year, compared to 295 this year. See also: Education Industry Mergers Jumped Significantly in 2016.

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District Administration

DECEMBER 3, 2015

How one of the largest districts in the country is going Google District Administration Custom Publishing Group The School District of Lee County in Florida is in the midst of one of the largest education Chromebook implementations in the country, distributing some 18,000 devices along with Google Apps for Education accounts to all students in grades (..)

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p. Auster’s study (Carol Auster, 2016​ ​​​).

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2016 digital education survey. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. We asked teachers what they want from edtech. Here's what they said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives. Neither Gulati nor Schoology CEO Jeremy Friedman commented on the transaction amount.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

In February 2016, the Christensen Institute debuted the Blended Learning Universe (BLU)—an online hub of blended learning resources—in response to more and more schools across the U.S. implementing a blended-learning strategy for students. I’m doing personalized learning, not blended learning.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP). ConnectED Fellow, Zac Chase , from the U.S.

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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. District leaders even went so far as to dub the hardware “personalized learning devices.” “At It should have been communicated better.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. Her organization recommends that attendance is taken for every in-person and virtual instructional experience.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Here are a few more resources to help understand that journey the school has been on, already shared on my blog: Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning. The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. Learning and Failure. Relevance Amplifies Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

So in spring of 2014, when the district proposed implementing a 1:1 technology initiative that would help teachers and students transition to a personalized learning model, there was some resistance from families and the board rejected the proposal. In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools. Presidential Scholars.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). is to transform BCPS into a student-centered, personalized learning environment. The central mission of S.T.A.T.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But the day of November 17, 2015 will always be kind of magic for the NEO team. Without further ado, here are the top 10 posts on the NEO Blog: And the top e-learning trends for 2016 are… …The cloud classroom, the Internet of Things, augmented learning, BYOD, and personalized learning!

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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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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 23, 2016

Rounding out the top is a post remembering the young Joe Bower who we lost too soon and someone from whom I personally learned much. Dec 30, 2015, 3632 7 Benefits to Ditching The Paper at Meetings + Eve. Dec 30, 2015, 3632 7 Benefits to Ditching The Paper at Meetings + Eve. If it does, check it out.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Though the grantees’ work varied in location, size, and ages of students, all 14 introduced new opportunities for connected learning, or learning that happens when students follow their interests and create work that’s meaningful to them. The deadline for the LRNG Innovators Challenge is January 13, 2016. and Catherine T.

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SETDA Says

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Through the continued leadership of the Board of Directors and the dedication of our members and staff, during 2016 SETDA celebrated 15 years of. read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

During the 2015-2016 school year, MassNET worked with the Boston-based LearnLaunch Institute (under the umbrella of the Learning Assembly ) to pilot instructional software for English Language Arts with six teams of six to eight teachers in Boston-area elementary and middle school classrooms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

As part of this process, CA Group often begins with a “personalized learning scan,” in which the team looks at what resources are already in place on a district, city, and state level to support personalized learning. In 2013 she returned to CA Group full-time and launched its personalized learning practice.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.)

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

Courtney Egelston, the school’s cofounder and assistant principal, learned early in her attempt to implement personalized learning that teachers had to address students' emotional needs. [Our Yet re-designing the physical environment is not all that Egelston had in mind when the school opened its doors in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning. Along with this rise in high-tech individualized — or personalized learning as it often called — there has also been a backlash. These results echo earlier research on the benefits of group learning.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It is important to create opportunities for students to take different pathways to different end-destinations (personalized learning) but we also have to understand that are times when having students find different pathways to the same destination is needed to be done within the context of our work (individualized learning).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing. From 2015 to 2018, the school resources crowdfunding site DonorsChoose saw requests for funding for flexible furniture balloon from 110 to 21,163. Related: When personalized learning also boosts special education students.

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