Posts by Getting Smart Staff
50 Hashtags For Connected Educators
Last year at this time, Terry Heick at TeachThought inspired us to sort through and post our favorite hashtags. In just a year, we've grown from 36 to 50 favorite hashtags. We think that's #awesome.
EdTech 10: Getting #EdSocial in Orlando
Stay tuned to Getting Smart as we spend next week digging into online and blended learning at the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium. Hoping you will be there too! We will be very busy working in a bunch of great sessions with many of our talented partners. Check out our schedule for the week.
Will We See You at iNACOL?
If you can’t make it Orlando stay tuned to Getting Smart for continuing live blog coverage and be sure to follow along on Twitter at #iNACOL13 and #edsocial.
Infographic: A Trail Map for Parents of Children with Special Needs
We are excited to share the new infographic from PresenceLearning, the leading provider of live online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students and children with special needs.
Featured EduPreneur: Jason Lange, Bloomboard
Jason Lange is our featured edupreneur this week. Jason is CEO of Bloomboard, a leading educator development system that supports the development of individual learning plans for teachers and school leaders.
Featured EduPreneur: Trenton Goble, MasteryConnect
Trenton Goble is chief academic officer of MasteryConnect, where teachers go to learn about Common Core State Standards and to share assessment items. In this podcast, Goble talks about the transition from principle to entrepreneur.
EdTech 10: Bush, Boston and Bukowski
Team Getting Smart spent the back half of the week in Boston at #EIE13, the National Summit on Education Reform (and Bukowski Tavern enjoying a huge selection of beer, epic microwaved cheese dip and our favorite Bukowski poems).
ExcelinEd Summit Focused on Students
The sessions at this year’s National Summit on Education Reform reflected growing recognition of the potential of personalized, digital learning to improve student access to high-quality educational options across the board.
Jeb Bush: Keep Students at the Center of Edreform
In his keynote, Bush dedicated the Summit “to great teachers, without whom no amount of education reform would be successful. Great teachers need to be recognized and rewarded.”
The Next Generation of World Language Learning
A Getting Smart and Rosetta Stone Education white paper that describes a vision for next-gen world language learning and the opportunities blended learning creates for foreign language instruction.