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Blended Learning | Classrooms | Curriculum Strategy & Adoption | Innovative Leadership | Teachers
It is fitting that InnEdCO, a conference on how to change education using technology, was hosted at Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado this year. After all, we are asking leaders and teachers to make incredibly big shifts, we are asking them to move mountains.
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Blended Learning | Education Elements | Personalized Learning | Teachers
Water balloons aren’t the only thing that make summer exciting. This summer marks a thrilling new chapter in the way Education Elements supports schools and districts in launching and sustaining successful Personalized Learning initiatives.
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Blended Learning | Classrooms | Curriculum Strategy & Adoption | Personalized Learning | School Districts | Teachers
Recently, Joel Rose of New Classrooms posted a thought-provoking piece about some of the challenges he sees with the blended learning models that are not his own. I have heard the arguments before, but I have to disagree. We have seen the rotational model succeed again and again, and there are some very good reasons why it does.
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Blended Learning | Classrooms | Competency-Based Education | Curriculum Strategy & Adoption | Education Elements | Personalized Learning | Teachers
Last week, Justin DeLeon and I attended the Competency Based Education Convening in Los Angeles, held by CompetencyWorks, an initiative led by iNacol and MetisNet. The goal of the convening was to bring together technical assistance experts in the field around competency-based education and blended learning to better understand how blended, competency-based programs can facilitate personalized learning (which emphasizes student voice and choice). The technical assistance providers in attendance were comprised of competency-based learning organizations, such as Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC), recent authors of papers on pertinent topics including Liz Glowa and Julia Freeland, in addition to practitioners of competency-based programs like Boston Day and Evening Academy. The group visited USC Hybrid High and further developed practices pitches to superintendents on what ideal steps we would take to achieve a blended, competency-based program to achieve personalization across a set of schools. Over two intense days, we determined a current roadblock to understanding how blended learning could better facilitate competency based learning was the glaring need to clarify for the field how digital content providers’ pedagogy is designed to personalize.
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