Q&A: How to Create Custom Courses & Improve Grade Management
CompassLearning, a K-12 educational software provider, recently launched Odyssey 2012 to empower educators with new custom courses and grade management solutions. Updates include more than 400 new activities for reading, Language Arts, math and science across the K-12 curriculum.
Q&A: The Online Teaching Landscape
Online and blended teaching is a new art and skill for teachers today. It requires a unique set of skills to connect with students remotely and stay current with new technologies. Teresa Scavulli, K12, Inc.’s Vice President of Academic Services, joins us today to share her insights on online and blended teaching through training, professional development and informal learning.
Does Online Assessment Increase or Reduce Bias?
Dr. Mark Shermis addressed a question about the possible bias of online assessment and said, "Automated essay scoring software will ultimately make it easier to administer more writing assignments, raising the literacy bar for all school children."
Good Work: Sweat the Small Stuff
Culture is the unwritten rules for how things work and how people treat each other. It’s a function of all the little stuff: the stories people tell, how decisions are made and communicated, where people sit and park, and how contribution is recognized. An award winning principal taught me that while trying to accomplish big things you need to sweat the small stuff.
Matthew Peterson on The Neural Basis of Learning
Matthew Peterson, MIND Research Institute, suggests that educators should create learning environments with more hypothesis-driven learning. This strategy is built into a special temporal game-based approach called ST Math. In school districts with district-wide adoption and high levels of participation, ST Math has helped double math proficiency.
Staff Picks: Higher Ed, Digital Learning, Math Education, SmartTech
Karen Picks “Changing the Economics of Higher Education” Karen says, “I’m a big believer in higher education, having served on a community college board, and we have quite a few college degrees in our family, but both of my children obtained their degrees with alternative/combination high school-college…
Innovation & Execution: A Colorado Springs Case Study
We need schools that work differently and better. By differently I mean schools that embrace the shift to personal digital learning: collaborative data-driven teams of educators, high access environments, engaging and adaptive content, and student progress based on demonstrated competency. By better I mean consistently high levels of execution—what…
Education Leaders Talk Blended Learning & STEM at Edtech Symposium
Tom Vander Ark kicked off the MIND Research Institute's annual symposium, Learning Without Boundaries, with in-depth discussion around blended learning and the ways that we can invent the future of learning. Education leaders shared their hopes and concerns this morning. Many expressed hopes to improve student learning responsibility, increase quality learning time, and extend the school the day with blended learning and education technology.
Education Leaders Meet for MIND Research Institute’s Annual Symposium
More than 350 administrators, teachers and philanthropists will join MIND Research Institute, a neuroscience and research-based education non-profit, for its 8th Annual Symposium, Learning Without Boundaries, at the Westin Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. today.
Extreme “Make” Over Computer Lab Edition!
Lately, with all this focus on mobile learning, the computer lab has been getting a bad rap - labeled as a place where students sit disconnected from each other, learning how to type or create PowerPoint presentations. That method of using technology is already outdated and, frankly, boring. But, the reality is, most schools have a computer lab and I’m not sure we want to throw them out just yet! They’re not (all) bad places. They are just not always being used effectively.