Personalized Learning
Making Personalized Learning Plans Personal
Personalized learning plans won’t reach their full potential until students can pursue those plans each day at school.
Personalized Learning
How Students Are Using Data To Comparison Shop for Colleges
Students aren’t just looking at college as a place to make friends or find themselves, with grades and jobs as an afterthought. The student loan crisis means high schoolers are taking the loans they’ll be accruing into careful consideration and viewing college as a long-term investment that better pay off.
Leadership
Leading with Teacher Innovation
EdLeaders need to encourage, nurture, and highlight teacher leadership to make rapid progress--but it must be combined with school and district redesign initiatives.
EdTech
Active Learning, Data-Informed Decisions and Security Headline Educause
Tom recently attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference where he spoke with Cisco’s Education Advocate, Dr. Lance Ford, about active learning, data-driven supports, and flexible secure learning.
EdTech
On Promoting Efficacy: A Conversation with John Tweeddale
Tom talks with Boston based, John Tweeddale, Senior Vice President of Efficacy and Quality at Pearson, on the work of his team promoting efficacy.
EdTech
Rolling Out With Google Play for Education
It’s exciting to watch this space develop into an environment that just keeps getting more accessible for teachers and improving learning for students. Google for Education continues to add support and programs for teachers, admin and schools.
EdTech
Generic vs Coherent Teacher Prep
We’ve inherited sedimentary layers of local, state and federal EdPolicy--not system designed to prepare young people for the idea economy and not an easy system in which to teach. In contrast we know that good schools are coherent--everything is mission-aligned to benefit teachers and students. The benefits of purpose-built coherent teacher preparation hold the potential to extend quality learning for all teachers and students.
EdTech
Euro Accelerator LearnSpace Graduates First EdTech Cohort
LearnSpace, the first French accelerator dedicated to edtech, aims to invest in European edtech companies. Tom discusses LearnSpace's first edtech cohort.
EdTech
Infographic: Evolution of EdTech
Who knew when Oregon Trail was released in 1985 it would kick off a educational gaming trend?
EdTech
Making A Difference with Data
Value creation is being led by people passionate about a cause who are adding data science to their quest. Here are four examples of organizations already implementing the Cause + Code strategy.