Posts by Tom Vander Ark
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10 Megatrends Shaping the World
Expanding access to personal digital learning is one of the most important world shaping megatrends. People, schools, states, and countries will be connected to the global economy through education and learning.
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Differentiated Instruction
Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.
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Online Learning in Danger in WA
The Internet Academy was a leader in the online learning revolution in WA and now online learning may be in danger for all students due to major budget cuts.
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The Importance of Value Added
The combination of digital learning and performance based reviews could make it much easier to measure student progress and transform todays education system.
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Changing the Learning Curve
Using digital learning and personalized learning there is a way to change the learning curve, especially during major budget cuts.
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Phi Slamma Jamma
Marc Anderson of the Daily Cougar, a student newspaper at the University of Houston penned possibly one of the worst op-ed pieces of 2011.
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Design Thinking for Human Resources
Design thinking can be used for the complicated process of recruiting and developing teachers and more broadly school staffs. Listed at 20 dimensions of an effective education human resource system.
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Persistence Could be Key to Fluency
Understanding the mechanics of problem solving is one part of math competency. The ability to apply that knowledge in a variety of settings including quick estimations—procedural fluency—is an equally important aspect. There’s lots of research behind Carnegie Learning’s math program but they thought they were better a problem solving than procedural fluency and, for that, they turned to games.
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Politics and Pundits
Politicians, reformers, entrepreneurs and pundits gathered at the ASU Education Innovation Summit. See the roundup and highlights of the panels and presentations that took place.
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3 Reasons This Time is Different
The post-recession "new normal" requires that we invent new ways to do better for less and I believe that there are three reasons I am optimistic about the shift to personal digital learning.