Educurious: Engaging Minds & Changing Lives
Educurious set out to make kids work harder, learn more, and love it. With support from the Gates Foundation, the Seattle nonprofit created high school biology and English courses that are compelling and challenging. Results from a handful of pilot sites indicate that it’s working.
SETDA Releases Report On K-12 Infrastructure Needs
Today the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released The Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-‐12 Education Infrastructure Needs. This report examines current trends driving the need for more broadband in teaching, learning and school operations; provides state and district examples of the impact of robust deployment of broadband; and offers specific recommendations for the broadband capacity needed to ensure all students have access to the tools and resources they need to be college and career ready.
Connections Education Opens Blended High Schools
Connections Education (www.ConnectionsEducation.com), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accountable online andblended learning, will open high schools in Fall 2012 that offer students acomprehensive high school experience (including 18 Advanced Placement and many more honors level courses), in a more personalized, innovative and flexible school setting. The new Nexus Academy schools are tuition-free, open enrollment public high schools focused on college prep.
Q&A: Video Tutoring Improves Textbook Learning
Textbook Tactics matches 10-15 minute videos and assessment questions to high school and college course textbooks. Tutors can harness the platform to deliver select playlists for students, meeting their learning needs anytime, anywhere. Shawn Cox, the founder of the video-tutoring platform Textbook Tactics, joins us today to discuss how parents and students can leverage technology to receive faster, cheaper and more effective tutoring instruction.
Los Alamitos Elementary Wins National Facebook Contest
MIND Research Institute, a neuroscience and research-based education non-profit, today congratulates Los Alamitos Elementary School for winning the “15 Years of JiJi Contest” on Facebook.
Fidelis Launches Pre-MBA Bootcamp to Support Vets
Last Thursday, Fideslis launched a pre-MBA Bootcamp program for the prior military MBA class of 2014 (courses delivered by UCLA ext). Fidelis provides an end-to-end solution for the military-to-civilian career transition. The collaborate with leading universities, companies, and military organizations.
Some Choose Wisely
Chad Wick’s contribution to Cincinnati, Ohio, and American education were celebrated on Wednesday at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Chad is stubborn, he just won’t accept the injustice that he sees in Ohio. Chad lives in the future, he’s just waiting for the rest of us to catch up with him. Chad lives as if “All means All.”
Blended Learning: New Solution to an Old Problem
Digital Learning Now offers a state policy framework that is America’s best hope for attacking education inequity. We have the roadmap, we have examples, and we have the technology to provide every American student with a good education. The question is do we have the will?
Staff Picks: Hewlett Winners, Blended Universe
Tom says, "Maker Faire have lots of cool exhibits this weekend in San Mateo, but it's more than that for edu--the maker movement is connected to open content, viral adoption, any where anytime, and blended learning. Time to stop asking kids to 'turn in work' and time to help them make/publish/produce/create."
Defining (and Driving) Collaboration
By: Jordan Lippman. In today's world, both employers and educational institutions place a high value on soft skills that are transferable across professional, academic, and social situations. One of the most frequently cited skills is collaboration.