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Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps?

ED Surge

We have to use technology to relieve some of that exhaustion.” After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn. A single teacher can't do it all.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

Cool Cat Teacher

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. There's research. Click Here for Deals. It's amazing.

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ICYMI: Leadership Symposium Recap

STEM Discovery Education

Keep reading for highlights of our key sessions , which led to open, honest conversations on topics like equity in education, funding, and competency-based learning systems. Marzano noted, competency-based learning systems “can be quite the paradigm shift, but we’re standing at the cusp of real change.”

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Discovery Education Leadership Symposium

STEM Discovery Education

Today’s innovation is rooted in technology, but she recognized that there can be a disconnect between the innovative solutions that leaders choose and teachers’ perception of those solutions. As Dr. Marzano noted, competency-based learning systems can be quite the paradigm shift, but “we’re standing at the cusp of real change.”

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

ED Surge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. It was changing our technology.

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How Digital Credentials Can Elevate Existing Programs

ED Surge

At the University of Central Oklahoma, the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) serves as a second transcript that, like UGA’s CLR, helps students track growth in core areas that resonate with employers and graduate schools.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

It also comes at a moment when digital technology has prompted many people to question longstanding practices about when , where and how learning and work should get done. Yet if the primary aim of skills-based education is indeed to help companies with hiring, it’s not necessarily working on a wide scale so far.

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