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How to write SMART learning objectives in your LMS

Neo LMS

As a teacher, you have different tools and methods for measuring student success. Grades, progress in classes and feedback forms are just two examples; Achievable : it’s important to have a realistic approach while setting smart learning objectives. Use SMART learning objectives in an LMS through competency-based learning.

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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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And so the thing we focus most on, is how do we create content tools, software to allow teachers to allow their students to remediate gaps if they have any, and work on something long enough until they’ve gotten to a reasonable level of proficiency or mastery and then move on. We use tools as necessary. How’s that going? Successful?

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. Despite emerging digital communication tools that seek to bring parents and teachers closer, the structure of parent-teacher conferences largely remains the same. Do the research on tools that can minimize the information asymmetry between teachers and learners.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

Edsurge

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Big Universe is now available in the U.S.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. To identify top challenges, we asked educators and education leaders to use a wiki survey crowdsourcing tool to answer the question: “Which is a bigger challenge in K-12 education?”

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