techieMusings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Some major resources shared: iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework. Making Competency-Based Learning Real for Educators. Full session notes storified here…

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. 2 Go Slow to Go Fast When Implementing Competency-Based Models. 3 Make Students Agents of Their Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

EdSurge: How can curriculum providers help schools address teacher burnout and reduce gaps in student learning? Smith: The modern classroom sits at the intersection of blended learning, competency-based learning and personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come. So we were off and running.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning. Three student-centered strategies. Edtech requires student buy-in too. Students on Kiddom can track their overall progress, as well as progress on standards and skills.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 19, 2015

From competency-based learning ( I just gave a presentation at Keene State’s Education Summit ) to personalized learning, Stemscopes (hands on science curriculum) to Dreambox (adaptive math), and Edusight (robust gradebook) to Fishtree (adaptive learning system), we have a lot of choices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

BLENDED LEARNING Any instruction that blends the use of computers with human teachers. PERSONALIZED LEARNING An instructional model in which each student studies at his or her own pace, often aided by technology. MASTERY-BASED LEARNING Another term for competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Manager of Blended Learning. And the programs don’t come with the kind of data our teachers want for the competency-based learning approach we’re taking. ” John Rice. District of Columbia Public Schools. It seems like it’s really built for high school students. ” Jerry Snow.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. Student learner pathways are customized based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and goals; and learning experiences vary. Subscribe to our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. Does it work?

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

I would argue that the principles laid out in the book are critical for moving to competency-based learning, as you need strong, clear, and consistent standards-based grading (SBG) practices to get there. Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work by Brian M.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. As schools manage change across their instructional models, the traditional roles that adults play may shift.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

My teaching experience helped me understand that I didn’t need to buy a blended learning or personalized learning product. I had a process and practice in place, and needed a set of interoperable tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Discover The purpose of the discover phase of this project was to help leaders and educators from the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Education Initiative develop an understanding of competency-based learning. Colorado eventually adopted the InspirED platform, calling it Colorado ConnectEd.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Remember: Students are always at different places in their learning. I implemented blended learning last year and my students are now able to advance upon mastery.” When people suggest that educational software is synonymous with competency education, then I know they don’t get it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Instead, schools ought to be taking these opportunities to do what Heather Staker and I described in Blended —offering a la carte online courses with great digital curriculum mixed with elements of the Flex or Individual Rotation models of blended learning that match the path and pace of each individual’s students’ learning needs.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2016

The sequence of professional learning opportunities will highlight the unique ways schools and districts nationwide are implementing innovative strategies and new instructional models to transform learning for their students. PDT; • “Val Verde Academy: A Successful Blended Learning Model” on May 5th at 9:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Still others choose online learning because it can present a safe haven from bullying or other social pressures found in traditional schools. Accountability measures must adapt to and reflect a self-paced, competency-based learning environment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

. “Flipped-class” learning. Face-to-Face Driver blended learning. Rotation blended learning. Flex Blended Learning. “ Online Lab” blended learning. HyFlex Learning. Competency-Based Learning. Question-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. As such, we need to have an alternative ready that people will value and that ensures our most vulnerable students are not left behind.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

This isn’t antithetical to blended or student-centered learning; if Loveless thinks it is, I recommend he visit one of the KIPP LA elementary schools. Second, Loveless assumes that because students may learn these things at different times in a blended-learning world, that it will exacerbate the achievement gap—a legitimate worry.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. EdSurge is on the road.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. Summing up what that’s done for her kids, she said, “They’ve learned to enjoy learning.”. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

They want them at school learning. In perhaps a reflection of where online learning is headed, both Bagley and Grover now run blended-learning schools that they say offer the best of both worlds — the personalization of an online school with the in-person interactions of a traditional school.). It’s their identity.”. (In

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