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Infographic: #PLearning Framework (Part 2 of the Series)
By: Justin DeLeon. While many of us want to deliver a more customized experience for our students; designing and implementing a personalized classroom can be overwhelming. In fact, it stops some of us in our tracks.
10 Things to Consider When Choosing Digital Tools for Students Ahead of the Curve
By: Catelyn Cantrell. What I want to talk about is how to recognize and select tools for the students who are working beyond their grade level. Digital tools enable strong students to direct their learning to places outside the restrictions of the conventional classroom setting.
New Android App Makes Math Adaptive for Students
By: Allan Folz. From the technology stand-point, Allan reports that their apps have two fundamental features which set them apart from the typical offerings in the app marketplaces: an adaptive problem generator and screen captures of student's work.
What’s Your Teacher’s Story? Share it In Our Contest!
By: Amy Threewitt. Our organization, which empowers parents and students to advocate for choice in public schools, kicks off the annual American Pioneer of Teaching Award contest on April 1. What makes our competition unique is that it spotlights teachers who’ve selected the education profession’s road less taken, those who teach at charter, virtual charter, blended or magnet public schools.
To “Dream Big” Was More Than A Chromebook in Every Students Hands
By: Ernie Delgado. The great thing about technology is that there is always something new on the horizon that will be amazing for teachers and students.
Slow and Steady Wins the EdTech Race
Much has been written about L.A. Unified’s $1 billion iPad initiative, which has generated a heated national debate about what a school or district needs to consider before starting a blended learning program of its own.
Building Innovation Partnerships
Guest Author: Greg Butler. We can no longer count on education systems to ‘fix’ education in isolation, the challenge will require multiple stakeholders working across organizational and sectorial boundaries to collaborate and innovate in continual inquiry based cycles of improvement.
Yik Yak, Geofencing and the Future of BYOD
By: Kirsten Winkler. But if we take Yik Yak as a precedent there will be voices who call for more and better control over devices that are brought into school.
Get Out of the Way
Learning alongside our peers, we experimented with Visible Thinking strategies, tweeted “headlines” representing our individual SXSWedu experiences, thought about what we want our students to be like and reflected on a shift in our thinking about what needs to take place in order for educational innovation to occur.
Digital Learning Should Focus on Depth vs. Speed
Are you satisfied with the shallowness of learning that’s needed to beat the current system? Is what you want from digital tools to rip through inch-deep learning much faster?