Archive: 2013
Review of HigherEd Adaptive Learning Products
Last week we reviewed an EdGrowth white paper, A Case for Accelerating Adaptive Learning in HigherEd. Yesterday EdGrowth released a second paper that includes 8 profiles of adaptive learning providers.
Creating Curriculum with Meaning and Purpose
I have come to realize when it comes to curriculum, nothing is more important than the child, and the willingness to remain flexible with the planning process. This creative process is art, and contributes to what Seth Godin refers to as becoming indispensable in his twelfth book, Linchpin.
MyEdMatch: Making a Better Education Match
myEDmatch is a job matching site for educators. The startup, unveiled today, was formed by a former a Kauffman Foundation officer and the TFA director of Kansas City.
Students Shine Through Digital Portfolios
Voyager Academy Charter School in Durham, NC is a project-based learning school that currently has about 1,250 students across grades K-11. We started with 320 students in grades 4-7 in 2007 and have grown exponentially. This upcoming school year we will add 12th grade and complete our growth.
What’s the Point of More Charters?
An elementary school principal asked Charter Schools? Why, Exactly? Following are five answers to his question.
Smart Cities: Raleigh/Durham
Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the nation’s largest R&D center with 7,000 acres and 170 companies including DuPont, Glaxo, IBM, EMC as well as NIH, EPA, and CDC. The triangle refers to three top-notch universities: Duke in Durham, UNC In Chapel Hill, and NC State in Raleigh. There’s also NC Central (an HBCU), a leader in biomanufacturing.
Pioneering Teachers To Be Recognized by PublicSchoolOptions.org
Teachers really don’t expect applause; our students’ success is our reward. While celebrity is unlikely, gratitude doesn’t have to be nonexistent. Teachers work very hard.
Good Work: It’s Easter, Get Busy
We have created a complicated mess of things on this planet--a set of complex systems we can no longer manage, systems that benefit a relative few. It’s our job to fix things--the daily tasks of making things new: teach, heal, care, create. That’s the message of Easter and Passover--it’s time for an extreme makeover, for the ultimate maker faire. Time to get busy. Reconciliation requires leadership. We need to take a stand in favor of those less blessed.
Striving and Springing to College
Two remarkable young men realized in college that they had been fortunate in their college preparation, selection, and attendance. The both decided to do something about it. They organized nonprofits and stepped into the CEO role when the graduated.
Educreations: Adding Value to the Classroom
Double your capacity as a teacher. Let students learn from your own video as you navigate through the room acting as the facilitator to your own instruction, keeping students on task and providing live support where needed.