New Partnership Announced Between AAE & GCSA
The Association of American Educators (AAE) and the Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA) are proud to announce a new partnership to support Georgia's talented charter school educators. AAE, the premier national, professional association for educators, will offer teachers and other employees of GCSA member schools full AAE membership at a low monthly rate in an effort to advance best practices and advocacy opportunities for public charter school teachers in Georgia.
Gates: “We Need Even More Risk-Takers”
SXSWedu Executive Producer Ron Reed’s introduced Bill Gates as a “passionate, articulate voice for modernizing teaching and learning.” The standing room only crowd agreed. Gates delivered the closing keynote to a packed house at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday morning and left the attendees feeling inspired to take the week’s lessons back home to our own corners of the world.
Cook Up a Batch of Blended Learning With Us
So crack open the BLIG 2.0, gather up your laptop or tablet and head on over to the Cook Up A Batch of Blended Learning Workshop while you are SXSWedu. You’ll leave with resources and a plan to start implementing blended learning into your school immediately. Just don’t forget your apron.
Competency-Based Progress
Susan Patrick, iNACOL (where I'm a director) and Chris Sturgis teamed up on a great new site, CompetencyWorks. While the shift to digital is key, and extending the reach of great teachers is important, the shift from age-cohorts to to a show-what-you-know system will prove to be the most profound--and challenging--educational change of our time. That's why the conversation and community on CompetencyWorks is so important.
EdTech 10: Paths, Policy, Partnerships and the Planet
This week's EdTech 10 is brought to you by the letter "P:" personalized learning paths, policy developments, education perspectives, partnerships and products.
EdTech 10: Bush, Boston and Bukowski
Team Getting Smart spent the back half of the week in Boston at #EIE13, the National Summit on Education Reform (and Bukowski Tavern enjoying a huge selection of beer, epic microwaved cheese dip and our favorite Bukowski poems).
Online Learning in Danger in WA
The Internet Academy was a leader in the online learning revolution in WA and now online learning may be in danger for all students due to major budget cuts.
Digital Learning Questions
The Digital Learning Council is writing the constitution to the digital learning revolution. Some themes are emerging but so are lots of tough questions.
Jeff Hunt’s #VSS2010 Review
Here is a summary of what happened at Virtual Schools Symposium in Glendale earlier this week.
Naughts Not So Bad for Education
The papers have been full of editorials expounding on why the past decade was disastrous for America. There is much to forget and regret about the last decade but it wasn’t so bad for education. We should have made more progress than we did, but here’s 10 big advances that…