Posts by Getting Smart Staff
EdTech
EdTech 10: Leading the Way
As we celebrate the launch of Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning, we’re equally excited to share this week’s top news from leaders in EdTech. Here’s this week’s top 10 EdTech news stories.
Leadership
10 Roles & 7 Recommendations for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark & Karen Cator. If we want more students to experience powerful learning, school and district leaders need to benefit from the same blended, competency-based and deeper learning experiences that they seek to create for students.
Leadership
Impact at Scale: Gates Foundation Celebrates 15 Years
In its 15 year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest foundation remains excited about the pace of innovation, ending several diseases in Africa, sanitation and hygiene in India, and new payment systems for the world’s poor.
Leadership
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart paper released jointly with Digital Promise that advocates for programs that prepare and develop school and district leaders who will create and sustain deeper learning environments in schools.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Fully Inflated
While in other sectors some are finding creative ways of deflating the competition, this week in EdTech we were pumped up to follow the many genuine successes of orgs, startups and educators.
EdTech
Gooru Powers Personalized Learning With Open Content
A look inside the Gooru personalized learning platform. With over 100,000 collections of open content and an active community of teacher contributors, Gooru is focusing on making the highest-quality materials discoverable and dynamic.
EdTech
EdTech 10: #ThankATeacher
This week we’re dedicating EdTech 10 to the outstanding Getting Smart Teacher Bloggers. THANK YOU for your commitment to innovations in learning.
Leadership
Support for Better Schools, Smarter Strategies & Stronger Advocacy
From facilitating the development of an urban school district strategic plan, to advising a major philanthropist on impact investing, first quarter Getting Smart projects focused on better schools, smarter strategies, and more powerful advocacy.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Launches, Reports and Transitions
It has been a big week for reports from Digital Learning Now and Pearson, launches from Knewton and IMS Global, and transitions involving leaders like Heather Staker, and companies like Scholastic.
EdTech
Fishtree: Learner Profiles Drive Adaptive Learning
Dublin-based Fishtree combines content from any source and type mode, automatically aligns it to standards, and delivers it on any device in ways unique to each learner based on their learning preferences.