Personalized Learning

Student Guidance for College and Career Readiness

By: Michael Dunn. Assuring that students are college and career ready by the time they graduate is a discussion in every school district, school and legislative body in the nation. And it is a deeply important one.

EdTech

Google Apps Summer Camp: Chromebooks

Hosting a blog series about Google Apps for Education without featuring Google’s portable web-based computing device would be like teaching you how to build a house without introducing you to a hammer or nails.

Ed Policy

Career Education: Even College Grads Should be Employable

Parents with boomerang kids in the basement have learned that even college graduates should possess skills and dispositions that make them employable. Young people need access to postsecondary learning and work experiences that will help them develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions for employability.

EdTech

Robots Are Not Just for Computer Labs Anymore

The Hummingbird Duo may be the first electronics kit that is fun and educational for a fourth grader, a high school student, a college engineering student, and an adult maker. The Hummingbird Duo provides several levels of engineering and technology learning.

EdTech

Time to Take Interest in Pinterest

Need some extra advice on how to get started on Pinterest? Getting Smart helps edupreneurs and education leaders amplify their impact with biz dev, marketing, and strategic communication services. We provide a range of services from building and implementing strategy to public relations implementation.

Personalized Learning

Why We Are JiJi Believers

By Erin Dowling and Maxiel Peralta. We want our students to be problem solvers and critical thinkers. We don’t want to teach them to memorize facts or mindlessly compute numbers without a conceptual understanding of what they are doing.

EdTech

Pittsburgh: University Inspired EdTech

"Pittsburgh is on the verge of reaching a critical mass in terms of the number of successful start-up companies, entrepreneurs, availability of local early stage capital and ability to push and pull university technologies to market.”

Personalized Learning

5 + 1 Summer Reads to Challenge and Inspire

Lazy mornings, afternoons by the pool, and no agenda. Summer must be here! Of course, we all know this describes maybe 5 days of your summer break with the rest of your time attending trainings, conferences, figuring out what to do with your seemingly permanently-bored children, and a litany of…