Archive: Jul 2013
Personalized Learning

Busting Online Learning Myths

Carri Schneider

For the last year, we’ve been working with Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national campaign supported by ExcelinEd, to tackle eight big topics at the intersection of digital learning and the Common Core. Today we released the eighth paper in the DLN Smart Series -- “Online Learning: Myths, Reality & Promise.”
Leadership

Boosting Employability

Tom Vander Ark

In the US and Africa- 40% of recent grads are unemployed. So, who owns the problem? Is it a government problem, a higher ed problem, a consumer problem, or an employer problem?
EdTech

What Blended Learning Looks Like in Kindergarten

Alison Anderson

Last year, Barbie Gossett volunteered to turn her Kindergarten classroom into a blended learning environment. Along with 7 other teachers from elementary to high school, these pioneers introduced blended learning to their students as well as to the entire Lawrence district.
Leadership

Activate ED Launches Education Rock Star Campaign

Getting Smart Staff

The Activate Ed Campaign launches by featuring our very own, Tom Vander Ark as Education’s Rock Star... the first of the series aimed to help those aspiring to work in the education field with a toolkit for staying current and discovering what it is that our focus should be on.
EdTech

10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer

Alison Anderson

These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!
Personalized Learning

The Value of Market Experiments in Economics Classes

Guest Author

With Moblab, it’s easy to design your class so that a variety of different experiments can be conducted over the term, allowing students to learn, first-hand, important economic principles based on their own decisions and experience in these experiments.
Personalized Learning

Creating A Classroom Marketplace

Adam Renfro

A marketplace gets artifacts . . . “things” . . . into the hands of people who need them and rewards the people who create them. The Classroom Marketplace works the same way, and it prepares students to reap the benefits of real-world marketplaces.