Personalized Learning
What’s Your Main Purpose For Blended Learning?
What's your main purpose for blended learning? Is it improving learning resources efficiency/cost and time/access? Or is it improving the learning itself? Much of the attention and excitement about blended learning is on the former, with time-and-motion descriptions of where the teacher, the student, and the computer exist during the day.
Personalized Learning
Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education
One thing is certain, technology in the classroom is here to stay. Over time, innovative teaching strategies will develop, best practices will offer guidance and education itself will become richer and more rewarding.
Personalized Learning
Telepractice Brings Online Speech Services to School Districts of all Sizes
In the face of continuing budget and staffing challenges, many districts are finding that live online speech therapy (or telepractice) helps them deploy their special education staff more efficiently, improve students’ IEP outcomes and save on costs. Telepractice can augment districts’ staffing for speech-language pathology services and enables them to cope with acute and chronic shortages of speech language pathologists (SLPs).
EdTech
7 EdTech Rules for the Developing World
Brookings recently released a paper on international education. A New Face of Education: Bringing Technology Into The Classroom in the Developing World was written by Rebecca Winthrop from Brookings and Mike Smith, a four-timer at US ED and former education director at Hewlett Foundation. The authors offer seven principle for smart use of technology in education.
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A Tale of 5 Cities: Portfolio Strategy Revisited
Neerav Kingsland considered reforms in Memphis, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington DC and concluded cities that develop charter districts, devote significant resources to human capital, and thoughtfully regulate charter authorization will outperform everyone else. He's right
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6 Digital Learning Accelerants
6 digital learning accelerants: learning platform ecosystems, state leadership, high performing blended learning schools, evidence, barrier reduction, and state assessments
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Online Writing Assessment Across South Dakota
With approximately 40% of high-schoolers learning in 1:1 environments and statewide use of an online writing assessment program, South Dakota is taking important steps toward the digital future of education. We connected with South Dakota Director of Assessment Gay Pickner to find out more.
EdTech
SmartTech Roundup
Blended Schools & Tools Who needs a hard-drive? New Google Chromebook “gets it right” and, with plans to offer a steep discount to schools, might answer the call of blended-curious districts. Alabama moves ahead! Thanks to H.B.165, the Alabama Ahead Act, participating high school students and teachers will have better access to electronic textbooks and mobile learning devices.
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Dear NSF, Here’s a Plan to Boost Math Achievement
NSF and U.S.ED are gathering input to shape a $60 million math R&D initiative. They should invests half the money in a series of grants that study math motivation and the other half in classroom trials and prizes.
Personalized Learning
Digital Learning is Critical for Move to Learner-Centered Instruction
Preparing all students to succeed in today’s increasingly complex world requires a shift from a teacher-centric culture to learner-centered instruction that recognizes students’ individual learning needs, according to a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education. The report, Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning, examines the support that educators and schools will require to implement genuine teaching practices that are personalized for each student.