Career & Technical Ed
EdTech
Next Gen Learning Launches Grant Challenge
Next Generation Learning Challenges has released new RFPs to solicit proposals for tech applicants who can improve post-secondary education. The round of funding will total $19 million.
EdTech
A Look at Kurzweil’s Edu Predictions for 2009
In a useful post by Michael Russo, a middle school tech director from Buffalo, futurist Ray Kurzweil’s 10 year predictions made in 1999 are examined. Obviously the punch line is ‘not much changed.’ In the last 1990 I worked in a school district where we introduced online learning and…
Personalized Learning
How to Fix Our Schools
Top urban educators publish improvement manifesto: performance-based employment, performance-based student progress, and a portfolio of options for families.
EdTech
US-India Innovation Summit
US CTO Aneesh Chopra, a media darling in India, was joined on a recent State Dept. trade mission by US investors and entrepreneurs.
Personalized Learning
3 Big Ideas
Instant feedback from digital content will feed learning profiles which will personalize learning
EdTech
iPad Used in Surgery, Next Step School? (video)
Japanese surgeons have readily adopted the iPad as a surgical tool and add-on. What questions are we still struggling with in education in the United States that is keeping this tool from the hands of teachers and students?
EdTech
Finishing School: Taking On the Half-Finished or Never Started
This is the working title of a new book I am working on. In the New Learning environment, it will be the task of students, parents, teachers and leaders to take on new challenges that we are only now beginning to see. I welcome you to help me write this book.
EdTech
Hewlett's Quest for Deeper Learning
Hewlett Foundation wants every student to have the opportunity to think critically, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively they way the do in SF's Envision Schools
Personalized Learning
Students Need Help Making College Choice
High school students and their families need help navigating high school and making the all important post-secondary decision
EdTech
Rule the Borg, or the Borg Rules You (Video)
Programming is the new digital literacy. In the new Internet, you need to know how to program and amass all the power you can to direct people and ideas using your own technological skill set.