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Curriculum Strategy & Adoption
When my best friend’s mom asked me to help set up a bank of computers for Bloomington Public Schools in suburban Minneapolis, she provided me with my first experience in educational technology. I was 14 years old at the time and I can still remember the sense of accomplishment when we finished, while at the same time wondering, “what’s next?”
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Curriculum Strategy & Adoption
If you are reading this blog post, more than likely you are one of those “Blended Learning” folks who uses a mix of “ed tech” to liven up your classroom and make learning more effective for your students. In taking this approach, you have probably learned that there is no single application, website or program that will meet all the diverse needs and requirements of your school or classroom. You have standards to meet, students to support, models to implement and the list goes on. To help you meet these requirements you likely blend a set of digital tools and curricula with offline small group or independent learning.
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Curriculum Strategy & Adoption
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2015 will be a critical year for k-12 education. We have the opportunity to lean forward and continue to make progress with personalized learning for every child. 2014 Wishes - Some Were Granted As I was preparing to write this post, I reflected on some of my previous New Year’s predictions and observations. In 2013, I wrote a post, with five wishes and looking back it is interesting to see how many came true: Allow schools to try new models without too much criticism or scrutiny while they try to figure this (personalized learning) out. Looking back at 2014: Over the past two years, a lot of models were tried. Our team at Education Elements helped districts with hundreds of school models and thirteen of the Next Generation Learning Challenge Grant winners are ones we’ve supported. As important as new models are, we also saw “old” models work and as Michael Horn predicted in 2013, the station rotation model is solid and expanding. I also backed up the station rotation model in this post in EdSurge.
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