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How Curiosity, Creativity and Student Agency Unlock Student Learning
10/27/2022
Topics: Creativity, Personalized Learning, Student Agency
Long before the pandemic disrupted learning for 1.7 billion students and forever embedded technology into schooling around the globe, it was already clear that education systems were due for an overhaul.
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Bring the Magic of Disney to Your Classroom
03/01/2022
Topics: Personalized Learning
Disney is known for being the most magical place on Earth and Kaylah Holland wants to replicate that magic in class.
Holland is an instructional technology and blended learning associate for BreakFree Education, a nonprofit that provides training and resources for educators who work with…
What's in Your Back-to-School Toolkit?
08/02/2022
Topics: Personalized Learning
This is the time of year when kids gather supplies and cram their backpacks with cool new stuff for school. But it seems unfair that students should have all the fun. Teachers need cool new stuff too!
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6 Ways the Pandemic Transformed Schooling — But Will It Last?
08/18/2021
Topics: Assessment, digital equity, Global collaboration, Personalized Learning
After nearly a year and a half of pandemic-related disruption, going back to school this year will look unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. And that’s a good thing — or at least it should be.
Remote…
3 Ways to Accelerate Student-Driven Learning
07/09/2021
Topics: Personalized Learning, student-centered learning
Ask Michele Eaton how to accelerate student-driven learning and she will likely mention blended learning, student autonomy and engagement.
Eaton, the director of Warren Online Academy in Indianapolis,…
Measuring what matters
09/25/2019
Topics: Assessment, Personalized Learning
As educators pursue more personalized, student-driven and inquiry-based approaches to learning, one obstacle that continues to rear its head is the inability of widely used assessment models to successfully measure student learning and growth.
Critics say traditional models simply can’t…
Deepening Digital Citizenship
Topics: Assessment, Curriculum, Personalized Learning, Tools
A Guide to Systemwide Policy and Practice
By Carrie Rogers-Whitehead and Vanessa Monterosa
ISBN: 9781564849663
Published: March 2023
Length: 168 pages
3 unexpected ways tech can humanize learning
01/23/2019
Topics: Personalized Learning
My biggest goal as a teacher is to make every one of my students know how important they are and how invested I am in their learning and well-being. I want students to enjoy learning and to walk out of my classroom with a new level of confidence.
Technology allows me…
Customize learning with Google Forms
08/31/2018
Topics: Advocacy, Assessment, Corporate innovation, Education leadership, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Standards
We know that students do not all learn the same way. Some need a great deal of repetition to learn new material while others can see it once and have it down. Some need absolute quiet to learn while others feel uncomfortable with too much stillness. One might prefer reading while another…
3 ways to personalize the learning experience
06/11/2018
Topics: Personalized Learning
Eric Sheninger believes student agency is one of the most powerful aspects of learning that can be aided by technology. But getting there, and setting the stage for the consistent, effective use of technology, requires a pedagogical shift.
“What we need to do is prepare…