Posts by Getting Smart Staff
EdTech
Digital Learning Now! Releases DLN Smart Series Paper ‘Data Backpacks’
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released “Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles,” the second in the DLN Smart Series of interactive papers, to create a clear roadmap to the integration of data, portable records, and learner profiles that support the shift to digital learning and Common Core State Standards.
EdTech
Parents for Choice in Education & Digital Learning Now! Host Utah Digital Learning Summit
Parents for Choice in Education (PCE), in partnership with Digital Learning Now! (DLN), hosts Utah's first Digital Learning Summit Tuesday, October 9, 2012 with a focus on how leveraging technology can help all students reach their full potential and prepare for college and careers.
EdTech
Q&A: Internet Is a Community Connection With WeCan
Ulik Broida, Vice President of Products at Alvarion, and Nicole Robinson, Digital Inclusion Director at the Houston Public Library WeCan, join us today to share the impact of the Internet on communities to bring new knowledge, learning, and careers.
Leadership
Staff Picks: Learning Design, Digital Education
Tom Picks “The Learning Design Opportunity of Our Time” Tom says, “Blended learning opens such interesting opportunities to combine learner-centered anywhere/anytime learning with clear common standards for college/career readiness.” Karen Picks “The Flipped Classroom Turns Around An At Risk, Failing School” Karen says, “Stories like this which give real…
EdTech
ASAP Case Study
A Getting Smart case study on the Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) that invited teams to build software systems that could grade written responses on state standardized tests as accurately as trained experts.
Leadership
World Teachers’ Day
Today Getting Smart is excited to celebrate World Teachers’ Day. We are firm believers that even as technology increases and classrooms as we know them transform, teachers will remain the most significant change agent in student success. “On this day, we call for teachers to receive supportive…
Personalized Learning
Tomorrow’s College Tackles Higher Ed’s Greatest Challenges: Grit, Funding & Tech
As career fields increasingly require four-year degrees, it’s more necessary than ever before to be educated. The demand is driving many to endure debt, work excessive hours, and find alternative solutions to get ahead. Yet, the landscape of higher ed is changing. You can’t just check it off your list, you have to prove how college transformed your skills, attitude, and abilities.
EdTech
Hewlett Foundation Awards $100K to Winners of Short Answer Scoring Competition
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded $100,000 today in a competition to develop innovative software to help teachers score student written responses to test questions. The prize was divided among five (5) teams. The competition compared the ability of software to score short-answer student essays in a way that was similar to human graders. The results showed that the software is not yet able to achieve the same scores as human graders.
EdTech
JFF Sponsors Team Teaching For Rapid Credentialing
"What's new and different is bringing in an adult ed instructor and teaching elements within the [vocational] program," said Dr Jay Box, Chancellor of Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) where eight colleges are involved in Accelerating Opportunity. "All of the general education type of teaching is contextualized to the technical program."
EdTech
36 of Our Favorite #Education Hashtags
Terry Heick at TeachThought recently published "The 20 Top #Hashtags in Education." We liked it so much that we decided to compile our own list of favorites.