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What Is Competency-Based Education?

What Is Competency-Based Education? | E-Learning and Online Teaching | Scoop.it
The most important characteristic of competency-based education is that it measures learning rather than time. Students progress by demonstrating their competence, which means they prove that they have mastered the knowledge.
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Report: Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds - Kaiser Family Foundation

Report: Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds - Kaiser Family Foundation | E-Learning and Online Teaching | Scoop.it
The report is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use.  It includes data from all three waves of the study (1999, 2004, and 2009), and is among the largest...
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Full text research reports from 1999, 2004, 2009

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Wes Fryer: Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media ...

Shared August 7, 2012, in Missoula, Montana: Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers?

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Creating Critical Thinkers Through Media Literacy: Andrea Quijada at TEDxABQED

Quijada is the executive director of Media Literacy Project. With more than a decade of experience as a media literacy trainer, and 20 years as a community organizer, she has a deep passion for media justice. Quijada presents nationally and internationally on the impact of media on culture, politics, and technology. She has co-founded various organizations in Albuquerque, including Young Women United, a reproductive justice organization by and for young women of color.

Quijada is particularly interested in media as a tool for self-determination and movement building.

 

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Media (messages) can be decoded. Kids should learn how to pose the right 'deconstruction' questions in order to 'see through' messages.