Place Based Education
Series
Beyond Information: Engaging Parents (and Students) in Choosing Great Schools
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently partnered with GreatSchools in asking -- "What is the future of parent Information?" with the premise that it’s not enough to just inform parents, but that we have a responsibility to engage parents and students.
Personalized Learning
The Infrastructure of Personalized Learning
In my previous posts I’ve written about my wishes for a personalized learning environment for my children, how such an environment is not yet available, and how we as a family have begun to use a wide variety of resources to essentially prototype such an environment. I use the metaphor of a “platform” – seeing education not as a single, monolithic experience to be performed upon our young people, but as a set of services that students and parents can use to meet their own, unique educational goals.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Be Kind Rewind
This week we’re rewinding, updating, and relaunching a series of interactive papers that provide guidance for the adoption of standards and assessments that focus on the shift to personalized digital learning.
EdTech
Learner Profiles: The New Glue to Unbundled K-20
Whether a traditional school environment augmented by an after school program and online resources, or a full Education Savings Account program, learning is now an anywhere anytime multi-resource adventure. It should be facilitated by a learner profile.
Personalized Learning
Digital IQ may help plug the Ingenuity Gap
Can web-smart agencies and organizations solve our big problems?
EdTech
Videos: The First TEDxNYED in March
I took a look at some of the videos put up by the organizers of TEDxNYED. It's pretty clear that the web and its followers are moving faster than our schools.
Personalized Learning
A Letter to Principals About Levers
Principals have seven historical improvement levers: culture, goals, instruction, materials, hiring, parents, and partners. Blended learning is an emerging lever that creates new degrees of freedom
Personalized Learning
“The Reading Room” Premieres on EdReach.us
“With voices from Subtext, TechSmith, and especially the classroom leaders, EdReach is growing a unique network of innovators, giving educators a place to listen and learn. We’re democratizing professional development.”
Personalized Learning
Preserving Access to an Uncommon Curriculum
For deeper learning and dramatic improvement in college readiness, we need super systems rather than super tests: correlated components rather than common exams, and annual versions that evolve with capability.
Personalized Learning
Dreambox Acquired: More Blended Charters Coming
Reed Hastings of Netflix makes a move. Acquisition opens pathway to blended learning models