Jeb Bush on the Right to Rise and The Future of Learning
“The right to rise” may be the most important and underappreciated American asset. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush opened his keynote at the ASU Education Innovation Summit with this reflection on the distinctly American aspiration.
Review: Creating Innovators
Innovative education advocate Tony Wagner makes the case for preparing students for the innovation-driven economy in latest book. Profiles of successful young innovators are paired Microsoft Tags that link to original videos produced by filmmaker Robert A. Compton, to help enhance content understanding.
Turn Your Life Challenges Into a Game With SuperBetter
Life is full of challenges - some daunting and others simply a step in the right direction. A team of gamers have band together to find a way to apply game design mechanics to life, empowering individuals to make improvements in their day-to-day obstacles and promoting a more positive and productive outlook on life. This is the new gamification of the classroom: life lessons.
10 SkySong Trends
One day does not a trend make but ten trends were on display at the best edu-innovation of the year, the ASU Education Innovation Summit (#eisummit):
Using the Principles of Innovation to Develop Technology
Awareness and understanding of current technology’s capabilities is the foundation of innovating that technology into the future. The bits and bytes are mere details; the important thing is an awareness of any given technology’s possibilities.
Like Fish to Water: Virtual Learners in 2012
I have worked as an online educator since 2005 – facilitating learning in a two-year online program that equips current educators with Master’s degrees in Educational Leadership and signifies their formal readiness to take on positions of leadership inside their schools or districts. Getting to know these professionals through weekly interactions over the course of two years allows me to maintain an important connection to “real” schools and the students they serve as I fulfill other professional roles as an education policy researcher and consultant.
ASU Boosts Completion Rates With Data & Developmental Math
Dean Regier said completion rates for his online students--mostly working adults with prior college credits--are different than they are for 18 year old freshman but the basics still apply: build a foundation of basic skills, track progress, and get them on a path to a degree that makes sense for them.
Auto Essay Scoring Headlines NCME, Addresses Critics
Some writers and teachers of writing have been quick to criticize or make light of the Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP). The team running this project (which I co-direct) has been driven by a clear mission: we want students to write more on state tests and in classroom. We want teachers…
SmartTech Roundup: Tablets, Contests & Edtech Investments
Tab News & Views Intel launched, Studybook, a cheap tablet aimed at Chinese and Brazilian markets. Sounds like a great move since Chinese schools are replacing course books with tablets. Ematic’s eGlide Prism is a loaded 3D Android tab available for…
Q&A: Jeff Mao Shares the Inside Scoop on Maine’s 1:1 Program
Jeff Mao, the Learning Technology Policy Director of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) at the Maine Department of Education, joins us today to chat about the ways that Maine forged the path of 1:1 learning with the first and only statewide 1:1 laptop program. He tells us more about the challenges the state faced, the ways the program has benefits students and educators, and how the program is evolving to adapt to the needs of the future.