Plugged In | 4.18.18

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iNACOL PLUGGED IN 4.18.18Dear Colleagues: Attendee registration is open to attend the iNACOL Symposium 2018 on October 21-24, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. Early-bird registration discounts are available until July 11, 2018. This year’s theme is “Driving the Transformation of Learning.” Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium and share this announcement with your peers: Attend the leading conference in advancing #nextgen #K12 education. #iNACOL18 registration is open! http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol #Teachers & #EdLeaders: Register to attend #inacol18, premier conference for #personalizedlearning & #CompetencyEdhttp://ow.ly/10peTP CompetencyWorks published a new report, Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed, offers a framework of strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems. Here are a few new resources from across the field: 10 Principles for Building a High-Quality System of Assessments, by Jobs for the Future. From Vision to Reality: Personalized, Competency-Based Learning for All Kids, by KnowledgeWorks. Agents of Their Own Success: Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities in the Era of Personalized Learning, by National Center for Learning Disabilities. Is Accountability Holding Back High School Transformation? by Colorado Education Initiative. The Practice Base For How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, by the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education. New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain CompetencyWorks Releases Equity Report for Ensuring All Students Succeed in Personalized, Competency-Based Education The role of public education has never been more important – it is the bedrock of democracy. Competency-based education holds promise as a uniquely powerful model for fostering equity, but only if equity is an intentional design feature… Action Steps for State Policymakers to Support Competency-Based Systems State leaders can support policy for K-12 competency-based education to help all students succeed. Fully-developed, student-centered systems require significant shifts in policy and practice. They require the right balance of policies that… The Work of Transforming K-12 Education Our education leaders need: political courage and a will to change, knowledge and skills to lead, and educational innovation. There are implications for systemic changes that must be addressed if we are to transform the education system in… Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based Education Understanding and Meeting Learners Where They Are Using the UDL Lens Kathleen McClaskey, CompetencyWorks Building a High-Quality System of Assessments: New Paper Outlines 10 Organizing Principles Lillian Pace, KnowledgeWorks ESSA Pilot Spurs States’ Interest in Performance Assessment Linda Jacobson, Education Dive Nine Lessons from Brain Science from Dr. Melina Uncapher Tom Vander Ark, Forbes Innovative Assessments: Widening the Horizon Adriana Martinez, Education Week Upcoming iNACOL Events April Teacher Talk Webinar | An Introduction to Student Exhibition Nights April 19, 2018  |  6:00-7:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register. May Leadership Webinar | The Science of Learning and Development and Its Implications for Transforming K-12 Education May 16, 2018  |  2:00-3:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register. May Teacher Talk Webinar | Strategies for Teachers to Drive Student Agency through Inquiry-Based, Authentic Learning May 17, 2018  |  6:00-7:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register. iNACOL Symposium 2018 October 21-24, 2018, Nashville, TN Attendee registration is open.  iNACOL in the News Choosing Personalized Learning as a Strategy for Educational Equity Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report “Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Some use online programs or software to give students… 5 Ways to Move to Personalized, Competency-Based Education Laura Ascione, eSchool News A new report from iNACOL examines five key issues that could help improve the future of U.S. K-12 education and increase competency-based education, according to the authors. In the report, the authors describe how the traditional… Educator Development Key to Statewide Personalized Learning, iNACOL Says Sarah Schwartz, Education Week States integrating personalized, competency-based learning need to take the lead in preparing their teachers to implement these instructional models, argues a new issue brief from iNACOL. The brief encourages states to identify… Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube

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[AECT] April 16, 2018 – News & Notes

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. Registration is now available for the 2018 AECT International Convention to be held in Kansas City, MO, October 23 – October 27, 2018. Register now to get the early discount – deadline is May 31, 2018.

 

JSET-AECT 2018 IRS. You are invited to be part of the 2018 JSET-AECT Summer International Research Symposium – Designing Learning Environments for Creativity: Space, Activity, and Community. Symposium dates are September 7-9, 2018 to be held at Future University Hakodate and Takuboku-Tei at Yunokawa Hot Spring, Hokkido, Japan. Complete details and registration information is available here.

 

CALL FOR VIDEOS. Publish a video with the Division of Organizational Training and Performance (OTP). We invite ALL AECT members to submit your original video content to the OTP Best Practices and Microlearning YouTube Channel! Videos are peer-reviewed, must be related to organizational training and performance, and no longer than seven (7) minutes. Topics can include but are not limited to: organization professional development, best practices in organizational training and performance settings, models, products, research (applied and theoretical), diversity considerations, accessibility, process examples, reflections and tips and techniques. Click here for additional guidelinesand our promotional video.

 

SPRINGER SPECIAL ISSUES. AECT members now have temporary e-access to Springer’s Education Special Issues, which include more than 40 special issues and more than 500 articles. Browse now for free until May 1, 2018. Spread the word!

 

AECT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM. The AECT Leadership Development Committee is excited to invite applications for the AECT Leadership Development Internship Program to coincide with the 2018 AECT Convention in Kansas City, MO. We need your help to identify and recognize outstanding individuals with leadership potential in educational technology and in the broader field through the AECT Leadership Development Internship Program. Eligible applicants and interested sponsors may review program details and application requirements on the AECT website. The deadline for submission is 11:59 PM ET on June 4, 2018. Contact Megan C. Murtaugh for additional information at 239-560-8301 or aect-intern-chair@aect.org.

 

LDC WEBINAR. Join us for a panel discussion as AECT leaders describe their “Journeys of Leadership.” The AECT Leadership Development Committee has prepared a special event to engage AECT and division leaders in thoughtful conversation. Panelists, Tonia Dousay, Cindy York, and Megan Murtaugh will describe their experiences in leadership including their time as AECT Leadership Interns. Event Details: April 19 at 7:00 pm EST. Register for the webinar here. Please send any questions to Aaron Bond.

 

R&T WEBINAR. The Research & Theory Division invites you to a professional development webinar with Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler on Tuesday April 24 at 12pm CT (10am PT, 11am MT, 1pm ET). Dr. Ifenthaler will be discussing “Are Education Institutions Ready for Learning Analytics?” We look forward to having you join us. Please join us by registering here.

 

GRANT OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCED. The Library of Congress released a notice of funding availability for the development of civics-related apps and online interactives. Products created under this grant will focus on Congress and representative government, using items from Library of Congress collections. Click here to read the full grant notice.Deadline is April 30, 2018.

 

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4 Lessons Universities Can Learn From The Booming Business Of Learning

As I say each week…  From the neo-liberal, educational privatizers masquerading as an academic body – so the term research here is used VERY loosely (as none of this actually represents methodologically sound, reliable, valid, or empirical research in any real way).

Check out this week’s highlights from the Christensen Institute.

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