Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I wanted to see teachers guiding their students through individualized learning, units that are unique and cater to the multiple learning styles, and technology-rich classrooms that aided in the whole competency-based approach to learning. I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Taking a step back though, we can imagine environments personalizing learning along a great variety of dimensions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Full size image here. As my students submitted work, I tracked everything in my gradebook.

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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

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. So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. EdSurge is on the road.

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