Keynote+Address

= Keynote Address (Grand Ballroom East/Center) =

= A National Perspective of Online Learning, New Trends and Intiatives =

Susan Patrick, International Association for K-12 Online Learning
//This session will provide a national persepctive on trends in online learning. Susan Patrick will highlight the latest trends and initiatives including the Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges grant program, Digital Learning Council's// Digital Learning Now //initiative, open education initiatives, compentency-based learning as well as other developments in online and blended learning.//

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Turn the accountability system upside down and make it about students and educators working to maximize learning for all students and offering incentives for effectiveness rather than punishment for failures.

Open High School Utah

Digital Learning Now Initiative

www.learningbeyondtextbooks.org

New initiatives: -Partnership for Next Generation Learning: Six states including WI: Looks like it is focused on CESA 1 right now. -Next Generation: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Kahn Academy

Love that Applications and tools within learning trajectories slide! That pretty much captures what goes on in my head at these conferences! :-)

"In a proficiency system, failure and poor performance may be apart of a student's learning curve, but it is not an outcome."

In competency based system the teacher role is much more complex, but it is much more valuable.

10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning 1. Student Eligibility 2. 3. Personalized Learning 4. Competency Based 5. Digital Content 6. Instruction 7. Providers 8. Assessment & Accountability: student learning is the metric 9. Funding: incentives (?) for performance, options and innovation {incentives were not expanded upon, still vapor} 10. Delivery

THE Design behind the technology is the key aspect of the innovation -selection of or development of assessment warehouse and rapid response to student AND teacher are critical -essence of personalized learning, without the above, just-in-time element is lost (Learner Analytics) Major shift in grading of student work. A-B-try again in order to reach mastery.