Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It was back then that he delivered a TED talk on the topic of whether schools kill students’ creativity —and today, that video has been viewed over 43 million times, currently holding the title of “most popular TED talk of all time.”. So, why then is personalized learning a non-negotiable?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% ALEKS gives instructors the flexibility to assign homework, share curated content such as videos, review student progress and provide support anytime, anywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

While other schools adopt different strategies to keep students in class, Bronx Arena, in the Bronx borough of New York City, is betting on close relationships and a personalized academic program to get the job done. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. “But I gravitated toward them.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. It wasn’t popular.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Chrome extensions ?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online. Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? Related: Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning. “Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Dobrin asks.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Those fall in four buckets: uploading a file from your hard drive (for example, a PDF, TXT or MP3), sharing a Google file from your Drive (currently, only Google Docs and Slides), a URL of a website or YouTube video, or pasting some copied text. There is a limit of fifty (!) sources you can share for a single Notebook.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. The teacher is therefore freed from such tasks and can focus more on interacting with the students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Their most important role may be the consistent presence they provide, sometimes checking in with students daily by text, phone, video or email, those involved in the program said. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Lesdin Salazar with photos of Central Falls students.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

“Kids who have great persistence in their lives, it’s because they have personal passion,” said Ron Berger, chief academic officer of EL Education, a group that’s working with more than 150 schools across the country to incorporate expeditionary learning into their curriculums.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Wednesday, April 16th at 4:30pm Free BrainPOP Webinar: STEAM Video Game Design - Tales From Students in the Field! Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). His laboratory is developing software to animate ASL avatars. Photo: John Myer.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?" The K-12 Digital Citizenship and Literacy curriculum includes lesson activities, student videos and interactive assessments.More information and registration information here.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. Her organization recommends that attendance is taken for every in-person and virtual instructional experience.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. My parents made me make five paper airplanes at home so I would win this,” Sharmin, browsing videos on an iPad with classmate Mariah, said. Mariah exclaimed to Sharmin, after finding a promising video. Lookit lookit lookit! Five hundred feet!”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Step 2: Watch the intro video I recorded. Step 3: Choose how to review the information from the video: Watch the Parts of Speech follow-up video. Here’s a composite example from a middle school English class. Playlist: Parts of Speech. Step 1: Log into our class website. Explore the Parts of Speech website linked in the module.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” “ Video Games Are a Waste of Time? 750,000 to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning ; $685,000 to Roses in Concrete Community School ; $700,000 to Peer Health Exchange ; and the rest to GripTape. ” Labor and Management. .

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

DLACs John Watson distinguishes between emergency remote learning during the pandemic and today’s well-planned online and hybrid models. In this conversation, we explore how today’s remote learning differs from that pandemic era emergency teaching. I mean, you talk about dropout recovery for instance.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Bless this headline ( from The 74 ) ’s heart: “Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships.” That people were asked to surrender their privacy and security for incorrect data claiming to offer "personalized learning" is just perfect.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. How has online video changed our expectations of that? ” Online Education and Teaching Labor.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Via NPR : “Go To College, Play Video Games.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Michael Liao, a Colorado high school graduate, missed playing the violin with other students in his favorite class – orchestra – during remote learning. His teacher clipped together video submissions from Michael and his classmates for a final senior performance. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via the AP : “The superintendent of a suburban Cleveland school district who was caught on video at a high school football game pulling down the pants of the school board vice president has been suspended.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” Via The Chicago Tribune : “Video captures University of Chicago police officer shooting student near campus; charges filed against student.”

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