Archive: 2012
Personalized Learning
4 Ways PBS is Innovating For Students’ Futures
PublicBroadcastingService(PBS) has a long standing reputation in the education community for providing quality news, media, material, and more for engaged learning. Today, PBS is leveraging front-edge tech -- the flipped classroom, learning playlists, online professional development, games, and more -- to research and refine quality content and delivery of learning for students, parents, and educators. Here are four ways PBS is innovating for students futures.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting … iPads
All this iPad talk is leaving many parents very nervous about this all really means for their children: Are these devices really worth the money? Will their children’s learning truly benefit from these tools? Will iPads only add to “screen time,” hinder social skills and, ultimately, disconnect them from their peers? What is the magic the iPads create for students?
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DIY: Sweat Equity Brand Building
It has never been easier and cheaper to build brand equity--a favorable impression with an audience that matters to you. Sure, it's noisy out there, but with a little sweat equity you can build support for your school, project, or product.
Personalized Learning
MOOCs Shift From Curiosity to Employability
With huge investments and lots of fanfare, massive open online courses (MOOC) are the higher ed topic of the year. They’ve been around for years, but when more than 100,000 people signed up for a Stanford artificial intelligence course it was obvious that MOOCs had arrived.
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Math Software Unleashes the Power of Touch Devices to Improve Student Learning
This week, the education non-profit MIND Research Institute announced that its ST Math® instructional software is now available to students and teachers using tablets in the classroom. MIND Research has re-engineered its research-based software games to capitalize on the powerful learning capabilities of touch technology.
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11 of the Best Google Chrome Extensions for Students
Today, computer developers constantly add new features, plugins, and tools to help us access useful, relevant, and personalized data. In fact, developers at Google released an extension-friendly web browser called Google Chrome in 2008. Chrome offers extensions, or browser plug-ins, with unparalleled tools for learning that help improve one’s productivity and access to information. Here are 11 of the very best Chrome extensions for students.
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Where Arts & Earth Collide: Rethinking School Structures
For twelve years, Redding School of the Arts (RSA), a charter school in Redding, CA, has been known for its fine arts and musical dramas. Today it has a new feather—a platinum LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
EdTech
Cast Your Vote For Our SXSWedu Panels
Getting Smart hopes to participate in SXSWedu this year with one of its five panel ideas that cover education innovation, investment in edtech, digital learning initiatives, open educational resources (OER), games in learning, math learning, Big Data, and more. SXSW invites its community to cast votes on which panels they'd like to see in March 2013.
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SETDA Releases ‘Out of Print’ Highlighting Textbooks in the Digital Age
oday the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-‐12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-‐billion dollar U.S. K-‐12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations.
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Wiley & Knewton Partner to Offer Knewton Math Readiness Course
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a partnership with the learning technology company Knewton to offer the Knewton Math Readiness course throughout Australia and New Zealand.