Archive: 2012
Personalized Learning
SMARTtech Roundup: Blended Learning to Big Data
Dell is on the case. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is releasing a series of case studies on blended learning models that examine five school and charter management operators' implementation of blended learning. Five organizations across the nation participated in the case studies: Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, Firstline Schools, KIPP LA, Rocketship Education, and Summit Public Schools. The studies examine each organization's instructional and operational approaches to blended learning, and offer a high-level overview of each model's potential financial implications.
Personalized Learning
The Sky’s the Limit: 16 Must-Read Quotes from Michael Fullan’s Stratosphere
Michael Fullan is certainly one of the three to four most influential edu-writers of our time. On whole systems design and change, only Paul Hill has earned equal influence. His most recent contribution, Stratosphere: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge, is very short and very optimistic.
EdTech
Infographic: Growing Up With Technology
By: Jaclyn Norton. Technology is transforming today's educational landscape, reaching children's fingers before they reach their shoes. According to the infographic below from LearnStuff.com, 70% of children between the ages of 2-5 can use a computer mouse, while only 11% can tie their own shoes. Today's generation is growing up with technology, proving to reject traditional beliefs about how people learn. 90% of students think tablets help them study more efficiently, and cause them to read 1.5 more books annually. See the infographic below to see students different interactions with technology along their scholastic path, from grade school to graduation.
EdTech
NewSchools Venture Fund Spotlights Ralph Bland of New Paradigm for Education
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) today spotlighted Ralph Bland, the founder of New Paradigm for Education (NPfE) in its recent video series celebrating education entrepreneurs.
Personalized Learning
Rocketship Education Expands Successful ST Math Pilot In 2012-13
Rocketship Education, a leading non-profit public charter school system, will begin using the non-profit MIND Research Institute’s ST Math® program with all students in grades 2-5 across its seven schools in San Jose this fall.
Personalized Learning
Join Our Twitter Chat Friday at 9amPT/12pmET: What Should Follow the Student?
John Bailey, Dave Myslinkski, Tom Vander Ark, and Carri Schneider plan to host a Twitter chat on the upcoming Digital Learning Now! Smart Series paper Friday, September 7, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. ET.
Personalized Learning
Blended Speech Therapy: Q&A with Clay Whitehead
PresenceLearning delivers more than 10,000 online speech therapy sessions a month to schools in 25 states. The company, formed by two recent Stanford MBAs, is a good example of two translational innovations--synchronous online instruction and distributed workforce--now deployed in education to meet widespread special education challenges.
Personalized Learning
NanoProfessor Increases Access to Front-Edge STEM Learning
Nanotechnology is the next boom in science. It explores material science (chemistry, physics, biology) at the scale of one billionth of a meter, such a low level that it’s invisible to the human eye. It includes everything from nanotechnology patents that are making L’Oreal face creams more penetrable to composites used on airplanes and aerospace that are making steal simultaneously stronger and lighter. It’s revolutionizing products across all industries by making them more efficient and durable than ever before.
Personalized Learning
Digital Technology Brings Global Collaboration Between High Schools
By: Jaclyn Norton. Jennifer Bevill knows how to create a global classroom. The “Peace Project” bridged geographic borders between high school students at LSU Laboratory HighSchool in Baton Rouge, LA and Odori High School in Japan by utilizing digital technology to build cultural understanding and bring awareness to issues surrounding tolerance and peace at both schools.
Personalized Learning
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Releases Blended Learning Case Studies
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) today released "Blended Learning in Practice: Introduction to Case Studies from Leading Schools" and its first feature on KIPP Empower Academy.