personalized learning
23 Questions that Cultivate Deeper Learning Mindsets
How can educators model deeper learning mindsets they seek to cultivate in students? Taking the time to reflect on their own learning, modeling growth mindset and lifelong learning, and genuinely involving students in problem solving, to name a few. Ponder these 23 questions in your next professional learning session and model deeper learning in your classroom, school, or organization everyday.
Design Thinking for Personalized Learning: 5 Strategies for Effective Whole School Design
We need to encourage schools and districts to think differently when it comes to personalized learning especially when it comes to whole school design. Here are five things to keep in mind as you seek to transform the way that you do school.
Talking Math: 6 Strategies for Getting Students to Engage in Mathematical Discourse
By: Gladis Kersaint. To engage students in productive mathematical conversations, teachers can orchestrate discourse and structure learning environments to deepen engagement and support learning.
Summit Taking Applications for School Partners
The most innovative secondary network, Summit Public Schools is accepting applications for partner schools. Apply now to become a Basecamp partner school.
20 Ways Education Will Improve by 2020
It’s getting easier to learn anything anywhere. It’s getting easier to create learning environments that work better for teachers and students. Here are 20 ways that learning (K-20) will change over the next five (or 10) years.
Teachers and Technology in Education
By: Curt Allen. We want to support, not replace teachers. We want to enhance their professional advancement as they develop the young minds in their care. We want to help them prepare better, counsel with peers better and take objective measures of their students’ unique abilities and special needs. We want to be responsive to their preferences, whether they teach from a traditional, personalized, blended or project-based style.
Using Exploratory Projects, Minecraft and Storytelling for Personalized World Language Learning
Elevate and Empower outlines a number of important ways that world languages teachers are taking the lead in the shift toward blended and competency-based learning. With coaching from teachers, students are personalizing their work, while also creating it within a classroom community using Minecraft, storytelling and exploratory projects.
Learner-Centered Vision Will Frame Next Generation Learning
A learner-centered vision starts from the evidence that all children are naturally curious and motivated to learn. It envisions a system that adapts to learner needs and interests and supports their development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to thrive.
4 Projects for Building Global Connections
We can begin a practice of global education first by leaning in, then making friends, sharing passions, and collaborating to take action about what matters.
Leading Personalized Learning Literacy Tools
By: Emily Kirkpatrick. With literacy tools, as we get better and better at engaging student passions and stoking their curiosity, we will continue to open doors to new possibilities for learning and achievement.