Posts by Tom Vander Ark
A New Start on Accountability
Building off the new blog series, #TheNewAccountability, how student-centered learning, meaningful data, and innovation zones can improve school accountability systems.
Good Work: Connecting Mission & Task
Tom Vander Ark's Sunday blog about mission-focused work continues with a focus on individuals and organizations connecting cause and gift, mission and task.
7 Ways Smart Cities Attack Poverty
How poverty hides in suburban communities and seven ways cities can counter its crippling effects.
MasteryConnect: From Viral Assessment Tool to Classroom Game Changer
Acquisition updates and insights on MasteryConnect, the viable business, classroom game changer, and software-as-a-service provider.
Time to Rewrite the Code, But How?
The shift to blended, personalized, and competency-based learning suggests a dramatic change in state education policy. With these changes states should plan to rewrite their education code. But how? Two basic change mechanisms: Push & Pull.
New Book Outlines 7 Keys to Smart Cities
"Smart Cities That Work for Everyone" discusses how dramatically improving learning requires local leadership, productive partnerships, a commitment to talent development, aligned investment, and capacity to incubate new tools and schools.
XPRIZE Launches $15 million Prize to Power Personal Learning
Global Learning XPRIZE challenge invites teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software that enables young people to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
What’s the Uber for Education?
An Uber-like education would be student-centered: personalized, competency-based, with high student ownership, and would happen anywhere anytime.
Master Teachers Share Blended Learning Tips on BetterLesson
BetterLesson selects 11 blended learning teachers who will focus on new modalities of practice with the goal of making effective blended practice accessible to every educator.
It’s Time to Reimagine School Information
Introducing a national design competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of education.