Posts by Adam Renfro

Personalized Learning

The Transition from Cursive to Coding

My son missed a day of school last week, and when he returned, his teacher gave him directions for his makeup work that were written in cursive. He returned to that teacher later in the day, and this exchange took place...

EdTech

Osmo: Playing Outside the Screen

Osmo is a great way for young minds to see the bridge between the digital and physical worlds. It's a brilliant optical device that has advanced AI programming under the hood.

Personalized Learning

The Transition from Cursive to Coding

Programming pushes students to research, plan, outline, collaborate, test, troubleshoot, and retest. It’s brain intensive language study that requires syntax and style.

EdTech

OpenEd Releases its First OER App

OpenEd uses a machine-learning based recommendation engine to align resources to standards. OpenEd also uses subject matter experts in both knowledge domains and the Common Core to validate those alignments.

Leadership

Designing Your School of Choice: mySchool

If I did a school-of-choice Kickstarter, it would go something like this: I would combine two of my favorite brick-and-mortar school models and bring in some high-powered adaptive learning machines and virtual options to develop my school, or mySchool. Let’s take a look . . . .

EdTech

Big Data: The Quest to Assuage Assange Fears

This year, Big Data has given us the farthest reaching look into the future yet, and it’s a very exciting and promising future. Big Data is going to help us personalize education and usher in adaptive learning. The transformative change we are looking for depends on this data and the machines that use it.

Personalized Learning

Z-enders Game

Gen Zs are resilient. Digital content and constant gaming have not only rewired their minds, it’s also led them to disregard “no-win scenarios.” This is the generation that cheats on the Kobayashi Maru test.

EdTech

iAnnotate 3.0 on Sale in the App Store

Annotators are people who get nervous and antsy when they’re reading any kind of text, and they don’t have a pen in their hands to mark it up with. Annotators don’t just consume, they devour. This is what we want from our students.