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Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use

Digital Promise

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form. West Virginia Department of Education. US Department of Education.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Summit’s Basecamp is far from the only personalized-learning effort out there, but it’s among the most ambitious. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. We need to set a strong foundation.

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes.

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

ED Surge

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

ED Surge

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth.