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iLearn Project & Digital Learning Now! Host Wash. Online Learning Symposium
iLearn Project partnered with Digital Learning Now! to host a Washington Online Learning Symposium for state policymakers to cover the basics of online learning, Washington's current policies, and the next steps toward unlocking the full potential of online learning in Washington.
Personalized Learning
Start a Student-Generated Knowledge Bank
Have you ever finished a day of teaching completely exhausted while your students dance out the door, into the parking lot, onto the buses, and all the way home? If so, you are doing all the doing while your students are not. Unless, of course, you count their texting.
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Kaggle Driving Innovation By Hosting Big Data Competitions
Kaggle hosts data competitions. They call it "An innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing." Kaggle invites companies, governments and NGOs to present datasets and problems and then invites the world's best data scientists then compete to produce the best solutions. Grockit is sponsoring the first education prize on Kaggle. OpenEd announced an education prize partnership with Kaggle yesterday.
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Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education
Daphne Koller recently made an excellent case for online learning in her New York Times article "Death Knell for the Lecture: Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education." Her article brings logic to the shift toward increased classroom technology with a view back into history about the ways technology improved our lives over time.
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Pros & Cons: Is Elementary Too Early for 1:1 Technology?
The merits of 1:1 technology in education are so impressive that one question might be raised: How young is too young for students to benefit from 1:1 classroom technology? Specifically, are elementary students too young to have one computing device per child available to them at all times?
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Digital Learning Addresses Challenges in K-12
Two years ago Bob Wise and the Alliance issued an important Online Learning Imperative. They recently updated it and the EdWeek Digital Education Team reviewed it.
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NYTimes Declares War on the Future
The NY Times has launched a full on war on education technology—except for when it’s in their own benefit. Yesterday it was Michael Winerup’s hit piece on Pearson. Today they ran another edtech hit piece. This one attacks Idaho chief Tom Luna, a terrific leader with a great reform and innovation agenda.
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Review: Top iPad Guide for Teaching Special Needs Students
Brian S. Friedlander and Christine Besko-Maughan published "Enhancing Learning & Communication for Students With Special Needs," a six-page reference guide to using the iPad for reading, writing, science, social studies, math and more. This is an excellent personal digital learning guide for any educator who is working with students who have learning disabilities, ADD or ADHD, communication impairments, autism spectrum disorders, speech or language delays, or cognitive difficulties.
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Women Rising: Five Predictions for Women in the 2012 Workplace
Women now influence more than 25% of the U.S. GDP and hold nearly 48% of all jobs. Without women, the U.S. economy would be 25% smaller than it is today. These encouraging facts come from a new book by Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Society 3.0: How Technology Is Reshaping Education, Work, and Society.
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Infographic: Consequences of Teaching to the Test
Learning today has become highly standardized. We ask students to reach a learning standard and test it with statewide tests that identify whether we successfully taught them what they needed to know to clear the bar. Yet, are we only teaching students to pass a standardized test? Best Masters in Education published some compelling data recently that makes us think twice about "teaching to the test."