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This school groups students by ability, not grade level

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Wisconsin school puts focus on personalized learning, student choice, and open learning spaces. It’s after lunch in a combined fourth- and fifth-grade class at Walker Elementary School, and students are working on equivalent fractions. Children here are grouped by ability rather than grade level.

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Full Sail launches new camps for coding, robotics, gaming, and more

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Full Sail Labs, an educational experience designed for students from 1st to 12th grades with a focus on technology, science, art and media. 11 unveiled Full Sail Labs , a series of week-long summer camp for students from 1st to 12th grades. Full Sail University on Dec.

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Full Sail launches new camps for coding, robotics, gaming, and more

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Full Sail Labs, an educational experience designed for students from 1st to 12th grades with a focus on technology, science, art and media. 11 unveiled Full Sail Labs , a series of week-long summer camp for students from 1st to 12th grades. Full Sail University on Dec.

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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

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This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The courseware could also save professors time, since it automatically grades assignments.

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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. Even those individuals who are interested in the model likely don’t have extensive experience with the practices we’ll be using because they’re relatively new.

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Help Teachers Truly See Their Students Through Usable, Connected Data

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One of many in a classroom packed with students, his learning struggles often went unnoticed. He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs.

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