Posts by Getting Smart Staff
EdTech
Q&A: EverFi Launches Open-Source Badging Platform
Executive Vice President of Product Development at EverFi, Inc., Kara Hedges, joins us today to discuss the significance of EverFi's recent launch of its first open-source badging platform.
Personalized Learning
Staff Picks: Digital Learning, Innovation, Games
Tom says, "Philanthropy Roundtable does a great job of informing foundations of sector developments. A great examle is the keynote that Alex Hernandez delivered at last week's meeting. He concluded, 'The state of blended learning is early–but it’s good enough to get started. We can have better schools, for our own children, in our lifetimes.'"
Leadership
Microsoft Launches Global Initiatives to Create Opportunities for 300M Youth
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new global initiative,Microsoft YouthSpark, that aims to create opportunities for 300 million youth in more than 100 countries during the next three years. This companywide initiative includes citizenship and other company programs — both new and enhanced — that empower youth to imagine and realize their full potential by connecting them with greater opportunities for education, employment and entrepreneurship.
EdTech
TEDxManhattan Beach Hosts “Journey to Purpose: Dream. Educate. Thrive” October 13th
TEDxManhattanBeach hosts "Journey to Purpose: Dream. Educate. Thrive." October 13, 2012 at the auditorium of the Manhattan Beach Middle School in Manhattan Beach, Calif. The event seeks to answer the following questions through presentations from experts across several fields of study: How do we increase the odds of finding purpose in life? Is it ever too late to find purpose? What role can the education system play in helping students find purpose?
EdTech
Smarterer Just Got Smarter: 3 Enhancements
Smarterer today announced three new project enhancements that will improve learning for users, which continues a trajectory to support lifelong learning.
EdTech
Popular Penguin Continues to Provide Positive Math Results For Chicago Public Schools
The nonprofit MIND Research Institute today released an analysis of 2012 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) test results showing that students using ST Math® -- a visually based, digital math program featuring the animated penguin named JiJi -- made significant gains in math proficiency compared to similar schools.
EdTech
Council for Economic Education Hosts K-12 Video Contest: What Should the Next President Do to Improve the Economy?
The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is holding a video contest asking students in kindergarten through 12th grade, via their teachers, for the best economic advice they can give our new President, whoever that may be. Teachers can record one student, or a group of students, answering the question “What Should the Next President Do to Improve the Economy?” and submit their video responses via Facebook.
Personalized Learning
Secretary Arne Duncan Speaks at Hamilton Project Forum September 27th
On September 27th, The Hamilton Project at Brookings will host a forum to discuss new approaches to promoting attainment and achievement in K-12 education. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reform efforts. Following his remarks, Secretary Duncan will take audience questions.
EdTech
Steve Hargadon Takes Education Hacking On the Road
Steve Hargadon, the creator of Classroom 2.0, Future of Education and Web 2.0 Labs, is taking "Your Learning Plan," "Hack Your Education," and "Beyond Testing" workshops to cities around the United States to generate local conversation on education.
Ed Policy
CA Leaders Converge at STEM Education Summit
With California business, civic and education leaders sounding alarm bells about the vital need to bolster the state’s lagging science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, the California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet) is convening business, government, education, nonprofit and philanthrophic luminaries to jump-start new STEM education initiatives at the 2012 California STEMSummit taking place October 15 and 16 at the Sheraton San Diego.