The Alliance Addresses New Digital Learning Imperatives In K12
This month, the former Governor Bob Wise's Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) released "The Digital Imperative: How Technology and Teaching Meet Today's Education Challenges," a report showcasing the ways technology can better prepare students for college and career as an update to its report nearly two years ago.
Teacher-Led Blended Learning, Students Win
There are three moments that addict me to teaching. When students have “light up,” “light bulb,” and “lead” moments. Creating an environment that fosters the space for these is becoming easier as the tools at our fingertips continue to improve. I see technology as a cornerstone of education that can help bring to life content for students.
Experts Share Their EdTech Predictions For the New Year
The eSchool News Staff asked a handful of education and edtech experts such Susan Patrick of iNACOL, Michael Horn of Innosight Institute, Karen Cator of the U.S. Department of Education, Gene Carter of ASCD, and more their predictions for 2012.
Digital Learning Day Fast Approaches, Are You Ready?
The Alliance for Excellent Education invites the education community of ed leaders, policymakers, educators, students, and parents to join in its first-ever Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.