Posts by Getting Smart Staff
10 Best Practices to Enrich the Blended Learning Environment
After some great conversations, here are 10 important points to think about when implementing and creating blended learning spaces.
Hybrid Learning Showing Results, Achieving Scale in Pennsylvania
The network is showing promising results. The release below provides examples of progress being made by individual schools.
iZone’s School Choice Design Challenge Demos Tonight
This week we talked to Steve Hodas, whose role at iZone is to serve as the interface between the office and the education entrepreneurs, finding new ways to solve old problems with a focus on personalizing learning for students.
EdTech 10: “News You Can Use”
Whether you’re a teacher, administrator, parent, student or education data lover - all the information is available from the hugely robust The Nation’s Report Card website. But before you get distracted by our nation’s students progress, have a look at what else happened in the world of EdTech this week.
Video: Blended Learning Models
Part two of the five part DLN Smart Series video series features blended models from around the country.
WriteToLearn Adds Enhanced Features for English Learners
In addition to providing more details on the essay prompt update to WriteToLearn, the release below provides details on the story of one L.A. County, Calif. school district's success using the program.
Infographic: Blended Learning 2.0 From The Ground Up
After publishing the updated BLIG 2.0 its time to update the From the Ground Up inforgraphic as well. Echoing comments and discussions heard at #iNACOL13, its more important than ever to truly start at the "roots" and set clear goals, establish funding and gain supporters.
EdTech 10: Awards, Blends, & Connections at #iNACOL13
The Getting Smart team enjoyed every minute of the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium this week, the biggest and best blended learning conference on the calendar. Read more for other big stories this week!
#CE13: 20 Teacher Treats
Hope you had a great Connected Educator Month! We collected 20 treats about teaching and learning together. Take some time to read all 20 and let October be the month that inspires you to strengthen and grow your connected professional learning community all year long.
#iNACOL13: The Happiest Place on Earth
This year’s iNACOL conference brought to life the true meaning of online and blended learning- it has to be a give and take and the more you contribute, the more knowledge you take away. As always our team is blown away by the passion and dedication of education leaders around the country and feel privileged to cover and participate in these amazing events. We were humbled by how much was given and the amount of knowledge we received.