Personalized Learning
25 Reasons to Give Thanks for Teachers
As we prepare to gather round Thanksgiving tables and give thanks, it is a great opportunity to give thanks for teachers, for the many things they do every day to enrich the lives of students.
Difference Making
Combining Working and Learning to Pursue Passions, Skills and Productivity
By: Parminder K. Jassal. Groups like ACT Foundation, Business Roundtable and the National Network are working to help people navigate the landscape of work and learn opportunities through developing online tools, blueprints and models. The goal is to make the work and learn connection more commonplace as a key driver of economic competitiveness, career success and life satisfaction.
Ed Policy
EdTech 10: Giving Thanks Where Thanks is Due
In addition to the 1,500+ innovative leaders we shared for the 3rd Annual Smart Lists, for Thanksgiving we are thankful for this year’s positive news that we’ve been following weekly for our EdTech 10 series.
Personalized Learning
How to Empower Students Through Service and Student-Centered Learning
By: Stacey Adamczyk. High school students deserve a safe learning setting, computer-based curriculum, service learning, and life experience opportunities. They deserve a hands-on, real-world approach to learning, and a foundational relationship built on trust with caring adults.
Difference Making
5 HigherEd Learning Trends About to Reshape the Workplace
By: Lenny DeFranco & Getting Smart Staff. Today's college students will soon be tomorrow's business leaders and the ways they're learning will carry over to the workplaces where they're headed. These learning rends are changing the learning experience for postsecondary students, and will subsequently influence the culture and systems of workplaces in the near future.
Personalized Learning
Summit Public Schools’ Strong Culture and Personalization Has Arrived in Seattle
Washington state has welcomed its first charter schools and Summit Public Schools has established two schools in the Puget Sound region. A Getting Smart staffer visited Summit Sierra and describes personalized learning in action.
EdTech
(Finally) The Year of Mobile
For five years, people have been saying “This is the year of mobile.” This time they’re right; with nearly ubiquitous US coverage and phone penetration, it changes our assumptions about how people communicate, learn, shop, and play.
Leadership
60 Day Whirlwind Reveals New Schools & Tools
The future of education is being built, bit by bit, all over this country. New tools and new schools are being developed at a dizzying pace. Here’s a few things we’ve seen in the last 60 days.
Personalized Learning
1,500+ Smart People Doing Innovative Work
We just wrapped the 3rd Annual Smart Lists! After looking back at the past two months of publishing about 20 ‘Best of’ lists, we wanted to share a final list of every category we featured this year.
EdTech
School Systems Sitting on Piles of Disruptive Data that Needs to be Exposed
By: Nasha Fitter. Parents need more data points that impact student success, easier ways to find information important to them, and effective tools for creating change. The opportunity lies in big data. For this to occur, we must gather, index, standardize, and surface millions of currently unsearchable variables on schools.