Archive: Jul 2013
Personalized Learning
Fiber Made the Video Star
Video editing skills will no longer be the sole purview of AV departments. That would be like having a Pencil and Paper Department now for whenever students have the need to write something. Video skills will be an essential part of all communications. The video tools are free and ubiquitous, and bandwidth will no longer be a problem.
Personalized Learning
Transforming Special Education with iPads in LAUSD
Working with 20 students at various levels of ability, with significant learning disabilities and multiple handicaps, it is extremely difficult to meet all their varying needs with textbooks, paper and writing utensils
EdTech
#Edtechchat Discusses Tech for the Flipped Class
Last night #edtechchat joined forces with #flipclass chat and the result was an endless flow of great ideas, thoughts and conversations around the best tools and methods for flipping the classroom.
Personalized Learning
10 Signs From NGLC Winners
Next Generation Learning Challenges award applications for “new, personalized, blended, mastery-based school capable of generating dramatically higher outcomes for students.”
Personalized Learning
NGLC Makes 8 Launch and 30 Planning Grants for Next-Gen High Schools
Next Generation Learning Challenges announced another round of grants today: 8 pre-opening grants of $450k and 30 planning grants of $100k.
EdTech
STEM-related Tech Tools from Edshelf
Teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is a growing concern. And there is an increasing number of tools being developed to cover these subjects. Here are six notable tools that were recently added.
Uncategorized
Innovation Intermission
This month, I’ve been exploring alternate models of access to informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) learning. This week, I’m taking a detour – an innovation intermission at a workshop with Nina Simon at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
Ed Policy
Why Wyoming Should Be a Digital Learning Leader
Wyoming has the opportunity to make a digital leapfrog--a quick advance that will benefits its students and economy. Strong digital learning and charter policy will allow choice and innovation.
Personalized Learning
Carving a Place for Blended Learning in the Era of Teacher Evaluation
You and I are focused on blended learning — why should we care about teacher evaluation? Value-added teacher evaluation and blended learning are in their early stages, however the space between them will shrink in the coming years as both define and redefine the practice of teaching.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Better Blends, More Online Opportunity
Bringing in the dough this week was Coursera, who raised $43 million from Learn Capital, GSV, Laureate, and IFC. “Coursera’s next frontiers involve better pedagogy and greater globalization.