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Improve School Safety Training With Online Flexibility
In many of today’s schools, staff safety training and management of the process is handled with in-service workshops and pen and paper sign-offs. Besides the frustration associated with manually keeping track of all those who attended, it also requires that administrators hold follow-up sessions to ensure everyone who did not attend receives training.
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How P2PU is Reshaping Professional Learning for K-12 Teachers
Professional learning for K-12 teachers is an exciting space with great demand and high payoff for successful models. However, much of the professional development currently done for in-service teachers reflects old, industrial-era models of learning: rows of desks, teachers standing front and center, seat time, and lecture. Current models of granting credit to teachers are similarly antiquated and are rarely designed to prompt innovation in the classroom.
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Gamification: Accelerating Learning For Business & Education
Anyone who has children or who has been around them for a while knows that kids, as well as young adults, are attracted to video games like flies are attracted to light. And while older adults may think the kids are being lazy or using their time idly when they’re connected to their Wii or Xbox using a Kinect, in reality the kids are paving the way for business training and education.
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Out of Poverty Into Opportunity
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton. At the NewSchools Venture Fund SUMMIT2012 (in collaboration with The Aspen Institute) this May in San Francisco, NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell gave an inspiring address to one thousand members of America's leading education reform movement.
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Music Students Overcome Stage Fright With Automated Digital Audience
I was asked by Professor Michelle Gingras, clarinet faculty, and Dr. Harvey Thurmer, violin faculty, at Miami University to create a tool that would help reduce stage fright for their students. Music students perform fine in the comfort of their own home or in the professor’s office. Yet, on stage students are fine until an audience member causes a slight distraction. Student performers lose their concentration causing them to miss a note. The student is so mindful of the miss that suddenly, all focus is gone and catastrophe unfolds on stage.
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Automating AND Humanizing Education for The First Time In History
While many parents and teachers lament over the amount of time today’s youth spend on video games, the truth is that these high-tech “toys” can be used to revolutionize education and training. Think of it this way: The games our kids are playing take them into a highly immersive, interspatial, 3D world. They learn how a wide variety of tools operate, including sports, futuristic vehicles, and various machines. They develop sophisticated strategies and tactics they can use to accomplish goals and win the game.
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In the Future, Teachers Remain Key to Student Success
New technologies and 21st century students will change tomorrow’s classrooms but quality instruction will remain the most important indicator of student achievement, which is why we must invest in professional development for teachers today.
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How Leaders Inspire Groups to Innovate
Success in today’s global marketplace demands innovation. The world has watched the likes of Jack Welch (General Electric), Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Bill George (Medtronic) as they inspired their businesses to innovate. Each possesses varying degrees of the key characteristics and leadership styles known to result in innovation. The same styles translate to innovation in education.
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Using the Principles of Innovation to Develop Technology
Awareness and understanding of current technology’s capabilities is the foundation of innovating that technology into the future. The bits and bytes are mere details; the important thing is an awareness of any given technology’s possibilities.
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“Self-Learning” is the New “Schooling”
By: Dr. Idit Harel Caperton. The idea of “student-centered learning” coupled with “networked learning” has tossed the idea that all learning should only happen through schooling. No longer do classroom walls or school schedules dictate when high-quality learning occurs. Through certain uses of networked technology programs and tools, the lines between educator and learner have become more blurred—allowing individuals to serve in both roles at different times of the day.