Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Asante Johnson is a technology integration coach and STEM teacher at District of Columbia Public Schools ’ Wheatley Education Campus. Last month, Johnson joined a handful of educators from the League of Innovative Schools on a tour of three public school districts in New Hampshire, a leader in competency-based education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We have a frank conversation about technology and a win in the National 4H Competition as a result of some apps he made in my class. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. laughs) Definitely not. Definitely perseverance.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

I therefore thought that a definitive quick reference guide to the major players, with a brief description would be a handy resource for our readers. So here are eight ed-tech organizations every teachers should know about: ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). Structure: Membership-based. I hope you agree.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Co-designed with six districts (from six different states) who have all developed their own CT pathway, the course adapts Digital Promise’s CT Pathways Toolkit , based on a three-fold process: plan, build and implement. We live in an increasingly technological and computational world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Why would arguably one of the most innovative (and definitely the richest) technology tycoon of the 21st century support a low-tech pedagogy that has barely changed in more than a hundred years? Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. This is the standard definition of competency-based education that most educators, policymakers and researchers largely agree with: a system in which students progress based on their demonstration of mastery of a certain concept or skill.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

billion (RMB 241 billion) in contrast to a year earlier, according to a recent report by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology. Within the Chinese education sector, three sectors saw a concentration of investments: competency-based education; language learning; education “informazation.”. See full-size image.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

I credit technology—and superheroes. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. I most definitely didn’t plan a project to have something like the superhero project culminate before every parent-teacher conference—that would feel forced. Full size image here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Smarter Learning Management Systems. With that in mind, I started out with the more common, perhaps less exciting examples.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Starting something in these areas means that, by definition, there is typically more upside than downside because the alternative is that students will have no other options. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. This is definitely not the first time that educators have raised eyebrows at the traditional A through F evaluation standard.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

This is a shift in how we think about partnering with entrepreneurs, by leveraging technology services and products from them and partnering with other stakeholders that traditionally have not been what Lumina has worked with. I would say there’s a shift away from the traditional focus on seat-based or hour-based credentialing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Teaching to a Range of Maturity Levels By definition, a self-paced model allows for more differentiation. Capitalize on peer obsessions in a positive way. Care for and support students when they most need it. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma. You can find the official definition here.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The district uses a competency-based scale where grades are broken down into standards for each subject. We're not calling it a grade, but it's definitely learning feedback.”. Students typically switch learning groups monthly, more frequently if they are moving through the lessons quickly.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

We’ve discovered that the five-part working definition of competency education developed by 100 innovators six years ago hasn’t protected us from misunderstandings. When people suggest that educational software is synonymous with competency education, then I know they don’t get it. They don’t get competency education at all.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

The difficult stuff has been having real students, parents who have their own concerns, and a team that is trying to build a school as they’re serving the students and trying to iterate and learn and try new things. I definitely appreciate how hard it is if you’re in a more traditional structure to do mass change. It’s still not easy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. The plan included developing a broader definition of student success, experimenting with short-cycle prototypes and working toward whole school redesign.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Still others choose online learning because it can present a safe haven from bullying or other social pressures found in traditional schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Social and emotional competencies can't be reduced to cognitive skills. By definition, social and emotional competencies are not cognitive skills and so we can't define and measure them as such. We're working to build our own map of definitions, practices, and assessment approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others. Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. Related: School leaders say they need more practical training in education technology.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As our paradigms change with tech and culture, and pressures mount to increase achievement and stop attrition of student to alternatives, so do the views of what personalized learning actually is. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it. Go learn it, but I’m not going to tell you to learn it by this date.’

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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