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America: Abandon Your Reverence for the Bachelor’s Degree

Oct 17, 2015

By: Mary Alice McCarthy. The stories of how two nephews navigated heavy HigherEd decisions, and how the postsecondary landscape is changing by innovations like the Bachelor's of applied science options.

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Hacking Leadership: Rethinking EdTech Impact and Research

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Oct 17, 2015

By: Jason Ribeiro. Massive, multi-million dollar educational technology projects in North America’s largest school districts are not having the impacts senior leaders and stakeholders expect. Why?

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3 Steps for Choosing Learning Games for Children

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Oct 17, 2015

By: Kristen DiCerbo. The actual process of selecting educational games can itself be a learning process… for kids and adults. Here are three steps to help in making decisions when it comes to learning games.

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Professional Development: Technology’s Key to Success

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Oct 14, 2015

By: Lucy Kosturko. Tomorrow’s classroom has arrived, and it’s an exciting place. But, the revolutionary teaching required to meet that goal demands adequate time and training. We must recognize that adequate PD is a necessary condition for the success of innovative educational technologies.

Personalized Learning

Teachers and Technology in Education

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Oct 12, 2015

By: Curt Allen. We want to support, not replace teachers. We want to enhance their professional advancement as they develop the young minds in their care. We want to help them prepare better, counsel with peers better and take objective measures of their students’ unique abilities and special needs. We want to be responsive to their preferences, whether they teach from a traditional, personalized, blended or project-based style.

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For #SmartParents, It’s About Getting Smart

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Oct 10, 2015

By: Patrick Riccards. Earlier this year, I was part of an important project from Getting Smart called #SmartParents. It was developed, with the support of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, to provide both guidance and personal stories from parents to parents about how we can be more active and positively involved in our kids’ learning process.

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Inspiring Creativity, Entrepreneurialism and Making: Global Cardboard Challenge

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Oct 10, 2015

By: Mike McGalliard. The Global Cardboard Challenge culminates in a day of block parties, show-and-tells, and open houses throughout the country that will celebrate making, entrepreneurialism and creativity.

Leadership

Why Do You Get Up in the Morning?

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Oct 8, 2015

By: Jeff Sandefer. Accessing deep pools of inner motivation is an important and never ending life skill. The answer of “Why should I get up in the morning?” is a difficult one at any stage of life. Here is how Acton Academy is encouraging middle school students to figure it out now.

Personalized Learning

4 Strategies to Create Tomorrow’s Classroom

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Oct 7, 2015

With SAS Curriculum Pathways, educators can create compelling problem-based learning scenarios and strategically target instruction using formative assessment data to provide additional insight into the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.

Leadership

The 3 Stages of Education Investing We’re Ignoring

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Oct 6, 2015

By: Matt Chandler. Balanced investing that includes serious investment in the early stages would send a very different message to the next generation: “We want you in education.”

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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