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Definition | Adaptive Learning | EdSurge - 0 views

  • Tools with adaptive content are all about two things: looking at a student's specific answer and then responding with unique hints, feedback and resources on a specific topic.
  • Adaptive assessments change and respond based on whether students answer questions correctly or incorrectly.
  • Tools with adaptive sequences are the most complex of the three. They often make use of “algorithms” and “predictive analytics” that can continuously collect data and use it to change what a student sees.
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elearnspace › Adaptive Learners, Not Adaptive Learning - 0 views

  • we have to shift education from focusing mainly on the acquisition of knowledge (the central underpinning of most adaptive learning software today) to the development of learner states of being (affect, emotion, self-regulation, goal setting, and so on).
Phil Taylor

Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Shou... - 0 views

  • “Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
  • e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
  • “I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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  • “Unlike some younger tech startups, we don’t think the goal is to replace the teacher,” says Laster, the company’s chief digital officer. “We think education is inherently social, and that students need to learn from well-trained and well-versed teachers. But we also know that that time together, shoulder-to-shoulder, is more and more costly, and more and more precious.”
Phil Taylor

Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters - - 1 views

  • Moving content broadcast out of the classroom
  • urning homework time into contact time
  • Providing tutoring:
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  • pedagogical framework called Self-Regulated Learning
  • widespread commercialization of the adaptive learning techniques
  • Textbook publishers have found that their traditional business model is collapsing as more students find ways to avoid buying new textbooks
  • personalized learning is a family of educational practices that support good course designs, implementing those practices well is not as simple as buying a product
  • Yes, personalized learning is a lousy term, but it is attached to legitimate educational practices that have the potential to improve the lives of many students
Phil Taylor

Blending the Best: Better Learning for More Kids | RealClearEducation - 0 views

  • This experience can be—must be—much more than putting some lectures, worksheets, links or tests online. Blended learning opens up unlimited resources, makes daily student collaboration more practical and lets teachers respond to students instantly from across town.
  • Embrace a culture of change and instability, and adapt
  • Get students active in learning:
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  • A blended class can teach students to think critically and creatively, foster skepticism, and guide them to be adaptable, independent learners.
Phil Taylor

Using Metacognition to Reframe our Thinking about Learning Styles - 0 views

  • Rather than relying on learning styles, focusing instead on metacognition can provide students with strategies that can be adapted and applied based on the learning environment and task.
  • A metacognitive student is aware of his or her own learning processes and adjusts these processes accordingly.
Phil Taylor

What is "Four-Dimensional" Education? - EdTechReview™ (ETR) - 0 views

  • In order to deepen and enhance the learning in these three dimensions — Knowledge, Skills, and Character qualities–there is an important additional fourth dimension needed for a fully comprehensive twenty-first century education: Meta-Learning (often called learning to learn–the internal processes by which we reflect on and adapt our learning).
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Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views

  • Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
  • Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
  • They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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  • In order for teachers to better guide themselves in their learning, they need to know what it is that they need to know. They need relevant questions about relevant changes. Being connected to other educators, who are practicing these changes already, is a great first step.
Phil Taylor

Project-Based Learning Made Easy | Edutopia - 0 views

  • dramatically increase the number of students and teachers engaging in project-based learning and performance assessment we need to highlight examples that are attainable. Rather than ask teachers to become master designers of curriculum, we should encourage teachers to tweak, or adapt, their current work to give it a more performance-based flavor
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What Parents Need to Know About Project-Based Learning - 0 views

  • the top skill sets for the future require agency, adaptability, problem-solving, teamwork and communication– all prominent features of PBL.
Phil Taylor

Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
  • "We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
  • Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
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