Place Based Education
EdTech
Why Learning is Like the First 10,000 Feet after Takeoff
Seneca was a little off when he said if you are everywhere at once, you are nowhere. Digital learning changes that.
Ed Policy
Jeb Bush: Keep Students at the Center of Edreform
In his keynote, Bush dedicated the Summit “to great teachers, without whom no amount of education reform would be successful. Great teachers need to be recognized and rewarded.”
Personalized Learning
Prize Means More Writing, Deeper Learning for American Students
With the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Open Education Solutions announced the winners of the $100,000 Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) this morning in Washington DC. The top three teams, made up of international data scientists, developed predictive algorithms that were able to score thousands of essays very quickly with remarkable accuracy compared to expert graders.
Personalized Learning
Big Data: Like Sunshine For Parents
Does school performance data really matter to parents? And does it facilitate parent-driven school accountability? As GreatSchools CEO Bill Jackson put it during his testimony before Congress in late 2011, “School performance data is like sunshine for parents. Parents need data to make good decisions about their children’s education.”
EdTech
The State of our Nation’s EdTech: How Schools are Changing
By: Mary Jo Madda. In the final chapter of their yearlong research on the state of education technology, EdSurge shares how schools and districts across the U.S. are experimenting with learning models and technology to better prepare students for future success.
Personalized Learning
Who Will Own the Lifelong Learning Relationship?
So, who will own the learning plan app? It depends, but it’s clear, said Yang, that, “Technology is quickly disrupting professional and personal skills at a rate that has never been seen before in history.”
Personalized Learning
Online Learning Works for Student Athletes
Online learning is not just for "certain" students- the real beauty of it that is allows school to work for students in new and innovative ways. That definitely includes the students who are motivated to succeed in athletics as well as the classroom.
EdTech
SmartTech Roundup: Deals, OER, Tablets, & Awards
Interesting Deals Countering all the Knewton press, Blackboard launched Blackboard Developmental Education to improve student outcomes and completion rates. DevEd was developed in partnership with American Education (A+), a company acquired by K12 last year. Atlanta investor Richard Smyth spent 2010 gaining control of a public company. Last January he launched…
Ed Policy
New Partnership to Strengthen Charter School Boards
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and Charter Board Partners (CBP) announced a partnership today to provide access to tools, resources, and supports for the governing boards of public charter schools.
Ed Policy
A Personal Journey to Help Reinvent Schools
It was clear that instruction needs to focus more on learning by doing, collaboration, and competency-based student progress. This represents a fundamental, systemic transformation …