Place Based Education
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Mental Models
Smart schools will help students develop rich mental models by engaging them in systems thinking early and often with games, sims, and virtual environments.
Personalized Learning
High Schoolers Game Their Way To College Math Readiness
It’s expected that a significant percentage of college-bound students will fail their first college math course. That dramatically reduces the percentage of students who earn a college degree particularly in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Personalized Learning
Games Will Change Everything
Games (and other smart adaptive learning media) will be part the core instructional program for most kids in a few years because they are: Adaptive: continuous performance assessment identifies and targets a student’s instructional level and provides instant feedback–it’s personalized learning; Engaging: good games use creative media to teach key…
EdTech
Big Picture Wins Communicator Award
Congratulations to Big Picture Learning for winning an award at the 2010 Communicator Awards.
Ed Policy
EdTech 10: When Working Together Works
This week's EdTech news revolved around working together to get things done with new leadership opportunities, support for strategies and models, insights into trends and perspectives, and advances in platform integration,
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Infographic: Who Is the Online Student?
Who is the online student? According to OnlineDegrees.org, the online student falls into two categories: for-profit and non-profit institutions. These students are typically over the age of 35 earning less than $15k to $40k a year.
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Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’?
“Radical customization, constant experimentation, and novel business models will be new hallmarks of competition as companies capture and analyze huge volumes of data. “ The McKinsey Quarterly ran a great article last month calling the question, Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’? Their five big questions are adapted here for education.
EdTech
SmartTech Roundup: Tablets, Tech for Prep, Startups & Blends
Tabs & Texts Next from One Laptop Per Child–not a laptop, it is an 8 inch plastic tablet with 3 charging options, a battery, a solar panel, or a crank. Classteacher Learning System launched Classpad, another incredibly cheap tablet out of India. Equipped with “artificial…
Ed Policy
Driving Innovation from the White House
The White House will host its own Demo Day (#WHDemoDay) on August 4. Innovators from around the country will join President Obama to “demo” their individual success stories and show why we need to give every American the opportunity to pursue their bold, game-changing ideas
Personalized Learning
Iowa Limits Opportunity, Protects Status Quo
The Globe Gazette reported that Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is expected to sign a watered down ham-handed education bill “even though he and Department of Education Director Jason Glass agree it falls short of what they wanted.”