Competency-based learning emphasizes what learners know and can do rather than how much time they spend engaged in formal learning, like a classroom or workshop
5 Best Practices For Reimagining Professional Learning This Year | NextGen Learning - 0 views
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? -- THE Journal - 0 views
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The formal expression of this is 'technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK),'" Bull says. "TPACK says that you have to know three things to use technology well. You first have to know the content. It's going to be hard to teach calculus if you don't know calculus yourself. You also need to know the pedagogy associated with that content-- the instructional strategies that will be effective. Finally, you need to know the innovation or technology that you're going to then use."
Factory Schools? A Debate | Redu: Rethink / Reform / Rebuild Education - 0 views
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that factory-model schooling was not just ineffective but actually harmful to most students—a message which had been so radical and out of the mainstream twenty years ago, actually sounded very much like the messages of my other guests.
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the Internet has become an unparalleled platform for learning, intitiative, participation, productivity, and creativity, almost all of this happens outside of formal educational institutions
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technology as a liberating force
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Attention versus distraction? What that big NY Times story leaves out » Niema... - 0 views
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robbing kids of their ability to concentrate
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The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?
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Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.
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100 Coolest Science Experiments on YouTube - X-Ray Technician Schools - 0 views
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thers thankfully take advantage of its services as a portal to share their knowledge and educate viewers. While few of the scientific offerings formally follow the scientific method or test an explicitly stated hypothesis, even those videos veering more towards demonstrating various principles, theories, and laws still offer visitors a chance to learn something about how the world around them operates. By this point, it should go without saying that many of the following videos contain procedures that may be dangerous to perform at home or without the proper equipment and/or training.
Students learning with digital tools in spite of school: Study | NetFamilyNews.org - 0 views
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students are not waiting for the rest of us to “catch up to their vision for 21st-century learning,”
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Middle and high school students’ smart phone access “jumped 42% from 2009 to 2010,”
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parents aren’t waiting around either
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