Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

It’s tough to know exactly what the upcoming school year will look like, but by keeping up on current trends in the educational sphere, you can return to school next year informed, whether you’re in a classroom or teaching at a distance. Blended Learning. Personalized Learning. Why keep an eye on personalized learning?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

Ahead of the 2018 EdSurge Fusion conference in October, we talked with three attendees about how their focus on personalizing learning has enabled them to think differently about how they serve their students. Students have more agency in their education and are becoming creators and contributors in the learning process.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

Ask a Tech Teacher’s Summer PD 2016 just ended. The Tech-infused Classroom. We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

To better understand how using technology can create equity in schools, we’ll outline how technology creates more equitable situations in the classroom. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh. VICKI: Do you think some teachers might be scared of introducing these problems into their classroom that they might not know how to help the kids? Below is a transcript modified for your reading pleasure. Transcript for Episode 114 . Download the transcript.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2017

Today Peggy George @pgeorge was one of the most photographed people last year at ISTE 2016, however – SHE WASN’T THERE. You will also want to come by PowerSchool’s Classroom of the Future in 207A where they will be giving away Apple Watches, Microsoft Surfaces and Amazon Echoes. I co-host the weekly Classroom 2.0

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In the first of a series of reports from Digital Promise Global, Making Learning Personal For All – The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom explores learner diversity and learning variability across a variety of factors impacting student performance. To learn more, get your copy of the report.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” is a term that is no stranger to interpretation—even to the point that writers have started to argue about whether it’s worth defining or not (just check out here and here.) EdSurge: “Personalized learning” is a phrase that has gotten thrown around relatively frequently over the past one to two years.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2018

After deliberation, they determined their goal was to shift to smaller, more personalized learning. . When introducing technology to improve classroom results, it’s important to understand the needs and limitations of the teachers who will handle those solutions day to day. .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. Congregate, built by a Harvard student, is also trying to recreate the group-study feeling through virtual tables and classrooms. Child is disengaged. Parent builds edtech.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

In many districts, teachers are provided the same professional development regardless of their subject area, grade level, or personal goals. As a secondary science teacher in Wayne County, a tight-knit rural community in southwest Tennessee, I know most of my students beyond the classroom.

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Digital Promise

MAY 24, 2016

Through the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative, we work with schools that are committed to transforming learning environments with always-available access to technology and powerful, personalized learning. — Jacinto Noriega III (@haseentoe) May 16, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It glosses over the herky-jerky reality of learning and the nuanced practice of teaching. In what now looks prescient – years before the “personalized learning” craze ignited a new national interest in tailoring schooling with the student at its center – a group of teachers saw trouble with the lockstep approach to progress.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But after a year-long, data-driven, deep dive into how people understand and apply the learning approaches variously called personalized learning, individualized instruction and differentiation, we’re intimately familiar with Shakespeare’s conundrum. At EdSurge, we’re researchers and journalists, not philosophers. What It Is.

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Hapara

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using differentiation strategies in the classroom helps you meet learners where they are. Why is it important to use differentiated instruction in the classroom? When teachers successfully employ differentiation strategies in the classroom, academic achievement becomes accessible to more learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. One tension in managing change across a classroom or an entire district is making the unknown an opportunity rather than a threat.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 17, 2017

I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons, including sloppiness in reporting, bias, and lack of relevance to education policy and practice considerations.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. That’s why it’s important for teachers, whether they’re digital immigrants or digital natives themselves, to change the traditional approach to learning.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 15, 2017

When I think about personalized learning I see two faces- my own girls. When I think of personalized learning, I see my girls and what it could have done for them to make them feel like more confident learners. Our teachers created icons to help students navigate the day for movement in the classroom.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It is integrated classroom tools for students and teachers and powerful transparency for families and school leaders. It combines the best features of a learning management system, assessment management and data management into one. Has a great gradebook supporting traditional points-based classrooms and standards based grading.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

billion smartphones worldwide as of 2016 – a number that is expected to climb to 2.5 To that end, the possibilities associated with turning the entire planet into a classroom are essentially endless. The rise of social networking as a learning tool. More than that, there were 2.1 billion by as soon as 2019.

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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. These are key components to success in the classroom and beyond. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

Still, there are increasing calls for educators and entrepreneurs alike to design and implement innovative education programs and products based on learning science findings. In 2016, we launched the Research Map to provide education stakeholders a visual way to explore the full landscape of education and learning science research.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Painlessly add flexible, authentic, and transformative technology to your classroom. Click to join. Certificate of Completion.

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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.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. However, there is some concern that the connection to technology tools and devices in the classroom will lead to students being disconnected from each other or from the teacher.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. However, there is some concern that the connection to technology tools and devices in the classroom will lead to students being disconnected from each other or from the teacher.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. One very good thing of 2016 was that the ed tech world never stopped evolving, not even for a second. Personalized learning. The best learning experience will always be one that is perfectly customized based on each learner’s needs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

Now, Mike is a 6th grader at my school and he came to spend recess in my classroom recently. Our school got a grant in 2016 to implement a personalized learning initiative. I used my 1:1 laptops to create a paperless classroom, providing instant teacher feedback on writing assignments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

It was about this time last year, in January 2016, when Rudolph was working on a strategic plan that he hoped could address the needs of all MVWSD students. Just weeks into the pilot last fall, parents wanted to see it removed from their children’s classrooms. This is a great opportunity for our district to learn, adapt and grow.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

MIAMI — There are no walls between the seven classrooms on the third floor of the Medical Academy for Science and Technology, a former hospital that houses a magnet high school for would-be doctors, nurses, physical therapists and pharmacists. The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

So they began the 2016-2017 year with the goal of using Cortex to operationalize the MyWays competencies, making them more accessible for teachers and making both academic and non academic habits an area of focus for students. It’s also important for LAB to make sure that this work doesn’t feel like an added burden for teachers.

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Educate AI Magazine

MARCH 1, 2025

In 2016, we envisioned AI as a potential teaching assistant for K-12 educators, akin to the support that college professors receive from their TAs. The classroom of tomorrow begins today, and with AI, Otus is leading the way toward a more efficient, effective, and connected educational experience.

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