[In no particular order]
1. Funding for Common Core
Last year, the decision whether or not to adopt the Common Core State Standards was a sweeping national trend. This year, states are starting to get cold feet on the actual implementation of these standards, due mainly to one reason—funding (or lack of it). Already, multiple states have either paused on their implementation strategies or are now reversing their decision to adopt. For more information on this trend, read:
4 reasons why the Common Core Standards are losing popularity
Just how effective are the Common Core State Standards?
Admins predict changes in rigor, instruction under Common Core
2. Creating your own eBooks
For years schools have started to question the incredible amount of money spent on often outdated and non-interactive textbooks. Last year’s trend centered on purchasing digital textbooks, often from big-name publishers. However, thanks to new, low-cost digital publishing tools, many schools are now considering creating their own eBooks, which can be customized to align to the Common Core, and can include flipped learning methodology through the inclusion of interactive videos from sources such as the Khan Academy. For more information on this trend, read:
Creating your own eTextbooks for Common Core
Build your own digital textbooks
How to create your own textbook—with or without Apple
3. Assessments for flipped learning
Though the flipped learning trend might have received the most attention during 2012-13, this year the creators of the flipped learning movement, Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, are supposedly creating assessments for educators interested in implementing this method of teaching. The assessments are rumored to be ready sometime in the fall of 2013. Sams and Bergmann hope to help educators track and assess student achievement through flipped learning, turning what might have become a simple fad into a lasting teaching method. For more information on this trend, check out:
Does research support Flipped Learning?
This online seminar discusses assessments for Flipped Learning
Flip the classroom-every teacher should do this
(Next page: Trends in broadband and coding)
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