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Use badges to create self-paced learning experiences
04/21/2017
Topics: 1:1, Assistive and adaptive technologies, Augmented reality, BYOD, Computational Thinking, Curriculum, Gamification, Gaming, Makerspaces, Mobile learning, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Project-based learning, Robotics, STEM & STEAM, Technology infrastructure, Tools
Awarding badges is more than a way to recognize student accomplishments. For educator Michele Haiken, badges also offer a way to give students a self-paced learning experience.
“I looked to my gaming experience and I borrowed the idea of badging as I re-examined my curriculum…
6 ways to personalize learning with flexible seating
02/17/2017
Topics: Learning spaces, Makerspaces, Personalized Learning
Putting students at the center of learning takes a double commitment. One to ensure that instruction and learning address distinct student needs, interests and aspirations, and one to provide spaces that support a student-centered program.
It also…
Blended learning transformed our school
02/07/2017
Topics: Personalized Learning
Blended learning has affected our school community in many ways over the last three years. It’s instilled independence, confidence and a new passion for learning for many of our students. Perhaps the best way to illustrate these improvements is through the success stories of our students.…
The path to personalized learning
02/01/2017
Topics: Personalized Learning
What happens in classrooms is magic. On the best days, when everything is clicking, students are engaged in collaboration and discovery. From the outside, it looks completely natural — but it doesn’t happen by accident. The magic in classrooms is borne out of a bond between teachers and…
Redesign your learning environment!
11/08/2016
Topics: Learning spaces, Personalized Learning
Workplace design is changing. At companies like Facebook and Google, the work environment is wide open, a design approach geared toward enhancing flexibility for an agile, mobile workforce.
It’s a concept that also works for classrooms, says Carl Hooker, director of innovation…
Personalized ed tech empowers students to change their stories
11/03/2016
Topics: Assistive and adaptive technologies, Personalized Learning
Classroom teachers have long faced a serious conundrum: How can they help every student succeed when they have so many who learn at different paces and in different ways?
Katharine Hale, a tech coordinator for Gunston Middle School in Arlington, Virginia, knows this challenge well. When…
3 ways to engage introverted students
10/04/2016
Topics: Personalized Learning, Tools
I love discussing books even more than I love reading them. When I can’t figure something out, I do best by talking it through. I get more energy from whole class discussions than from any other teaching activity because I am an extrovert myself.
So, in a…
Julianne B. Ross-Kleinmann: Classroom, community play into authentic tech integration
10/01/2016
Topics: Digital Citizenship, Personalized Learning
It seems that all too often, personal connections get pushed aside for the sake of convenience or comfort. We look into tiny screens instead of engaging with the world around us. We move too fast to tie the important invisible threads together on a human level. And yet, quality personal…
Strategic planning, professional learning are keys to ed tech readiness
10/01/2016
Topics: Education leadership, Personalized Learning, professional learning
Thanks to my formal education background and the early stages of my educational career in the United States and Puerto Rico, I was fortunate to work with school leaders, inservice and preservice teachers, and teacher training faculty responsible for educating…
Learning by Design: The idea that moved a district
04/11/2016
Topics: Assessment, Essential Conditions, Personalized Learning
This is an updated version of a post that published on Nov. 20, 2015.
You could say Elisa Carlson became the director of instruction, curriculum and innovation at Surrey Schools in Canada at the worst possible time. But in the long run, it turned out to be just the…