Archive: Jul 2013
Leadership
TechGirlz to Host Second Annual Entrepreneur Camp
TechGirlz, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering girls to be future technology leaders, will host its second annual Entrepreneurship Camp in Philadelphia from July 8-12.
Uncategorized
Why Aren’t There More Virtual Science Museums?
Why aren’t there more virtual science museums? (And when I say “science,” I mean “STEM-related.”) If a major barrier to access for science museums is their physical location or cost of admission (or both), why aren’t virtual museums flourishing on the internet? According to 2011 Census Bureau data, 71.7% of households in the US have access to the internet and there are about 2.4 billion internet users in the world. Although problems with access persist, and visiting a virtual museum isn’t quite the same as getting up close and personal with real objects, virtual museums could have great potential for increasing the reach of informal STEM education.
Ed Policy
New Tech Network Boosts College Enrollment & Persistence
Recent data from New Tech Network (NTN), a non-profit project-based STEM-focused school developer, showed that their alumni stay in four-year and two-year colleges at 17% and 46% higher rates, respectively, than the national average; with NTN college enrollment rates 9% greater than the U.S. average.
EdTech
Edshelf Celebrates Learning about the United States
In the spirit of the 4th of July, Edshelf shares some great websites and mobile apps for teaching United States history.
EdTech
Techlandia, For Your Listening Pleasure
I’m not exactly sure how my love of listening to podcasts transformed into recording one, but over the last six months it has. We now Google hangout every Saturday night to talk about 3 apps, 3 good people to follow on Twitter and 3 cool things happening in education, strip the audio from the Youtube, post it to iTunes, and label it Techlandia.
Leadership
Big Picture: Student-Centered & Competency-Based Learning
Radical personalization is the core innovation of the Big Picture school model--it was flex before we knew what to call it. Their approach to internships remains a best practice. Twenty years after Littky’s groundbreaking work at Thayer, the rest of us are finally talking about student-centered competency-based learning.
EdTech
EdTechWomen Community Continues to Build
At the EdTechWomen Dine #ISTE13 event we are proud to say that we hosted educators, entrepreneurs, founders, professors, administrators, writers, bloggers, reporters, technologists, programmers, and teachers.
EdTech
Augmented Reality: The Future of EdTech
Augmented reality is transforming the educational landscape. It gives students an up close look at objects like never before, and gives them the platform to be creative in their learning
EdTech
OpenClass Leverages Open Content & Social Learning
A year ago, Pearson moved, “Beyond the LMS,” and launched OpenClass, a learning environment that is open, easy, and free. At ISTE, Pearson highlighted the OpenClass Exchange, “Where educators can trade in open digital experiences from courses to components,” as Matt Leavy explained.
EdTech
Using SAMR to Teach Above the Line
The SAMR model is a useful tool for helping teachers think about their own tech use as they begin to make small shifts in the design and implementation of technology driven learning experiences to achieve the next level.