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Saylor.org Partners With Google Course Builder to Offer More MOOCs
Google’s massive open online course (MOOC) Power Searching with Google this fall gained traction and buzz on the power of online learning to reach a mass audience as well as the importance of content curation in the information boom of the digital age.
EdTech
Staff Picks: Childhood Learning, ST Math, iPads, Branding
Tom says, "It's been a rich week of discussions about How Children Succeed on NPR, at EdNation, and in person with experts like Dr. Pamela Cantor, Turnaround for Children. We spend most of our time on academic smarts, but it's clear that 'non-cognative' skills are at least as important and areas ripe for innovation."
Personalized Learning
SMARTtech Roundup: Blended Learning, Common Core & STEM
Check out who’s blending. Our friend Marina Ballantyne Walne published a summary of blended models and school profiles—a mix of familiar and new comers. It’s worth a look.
Personalized Learning
The Hamilton Project Releases Two Papers Furthering Tech & Economics in K-12 Education
The Hamilton Project launched today two new papers, “Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education,” and “A Dozen Economic Facts about K-12 Education,” at an education forum in Washington D.C. to help further public investment in K-12 education for economic growth and effectiveness.
EdTech
Google Ventures Backs Math Education Startup Desmos
Google Ventures joined investors Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Kinder Capital, and Elm Street Ventures today in funding more than $1 million for hiring, growth, and expansion of Desmos, Inc., an education technology company devoted to inspiring and engaging the next generation of math students.
Personalized Learning
4 Ways PBS is Innovating For Students’ Futures
PublicBroadcastingService(PBS) has a long standing reputation in the education community for providing quality news, media, material, and more for engaged learning. Today, PBS is leveraging front-edge tech -- the flipped classroom, learning playlists, online professional development, games, and more -- to research and refine quality content and delivery of learning for students, parents, and educators. Here are four ways PBS is innovating for students futures.
EdTech
Math Software Unleashes the Power of Touch Devices to Improve Student Learning
This week, the education non-profit MIND Research Institute announced that its ST Math® instructional software is now available to students and teachers using tablets in the classroom. MIND Research has re-engineered its research-based software games to capitalize on the powerful learning capabilities of touch technology.
EdTech
Cast Your Vote For Our SXSWedu Panels
Getting Smart hopes to participate in SXSWedu this year with one of its five panel ideas that cover education innovation, investment in edtech, digital learning initiatives, open educational resources (OER), games in learning, math learning, Big Data, and more. SXSW invites its community to cast votes on which panels they'd like to see in March 2013.
EdTech
SETDA Releases ‘Out of Print’ Highlighting Textbooks in the Digital Age
oday the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-‐12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-‐billion dollar U.S. K-‐12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations.
EdTech
Wiley & Knewton Partner to Offer Knewton Math Readiness Course
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a partnership with the learning technology company Knewton to offer the Knewton Math Readiness course throughout Australia and New Zealand.