Posts by Getting Smart Staff
Activate Ed’s Rockstar Number 3, Lydia Logan
The next Activate Ed Education Rockstar, Lydia Logan, Managing Director of Chiefs for Change at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
Cookeville High School Builds Rigor Online with Compass Learning
The district purchased CompassLearning Odyssey in July 2012 to use across all schools and grades. Since implementation, nearly 9,000 of its approximately 10,000 students have completed more than 480,000 Odyssey activities.
PresenceLearning Provides Online Occupational and Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students, today announced the availability of its occupational and speech-language therapy services to parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Creative Apps from EdShelf
These six selections involve doing something creatively, or just differently. Sometimes students and teachers both need a chance to stretch their creative muscle and change things up
E-Rate 2.0 is Here
We believe it is time to compete. To do this, we need to work together with the Federal Communications Commission on E-Rate 2.0 and rally around clear broadband capacity goals for every school.
7 Myths and Facts About Online Learning
Now that the number of students taking at least one online course has surpassed 6.7 million, it's high time we dispel the myths and discover the truth about online learning.
“School of Thought” Video Series Launched
"The School of Thought videos serve as our end goal, one from which we start with and build our theory of change model, use a back mapping process to align the research we are conducting today to that future vision, and determine investigative projects and collaborations over time to move us from where we are today to that end goal."
Digital Learning Conversation With Sal Khan
Governor Jeb Bush, former Secretary Condoleezza Rice, and Laurene Powell-Jobs sat down with Sal Khan in late April to discuss the state and challenges of digital learning and education in the United States.
Aspire Public Schools Launch Schoolzilla
Aspire Public Schools announced that its student performance tool, Schoolzilla, will launch as an independent startup. This is the first time a public school system has developed an innovative student performance tool that is launching as an independent entity.
The Use of Social Media in School Infographic
We have also been thinking about the use of Social Media inside the classroom this last week in our post, 7 Social Media Tools to Tell Your Classroom Story. We thought we'd share this enlightening infographic to enhance that conversation.