Edmodo Listed as Essential Teacher Tool
Edmodo gets some link love at Socratech Seminars prior to an important learning conference.
Pearson Helps Johns Hopkins Launch Eval Tool
Pearson, a global education, technology and services provider, has announced a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Technology in Education to bring to market Teacher Compass, an easy-to-use online evaluation tool for collecting, organizing and analyzing teacher performance data, and providing personalized professional development plans for teachers.
Smart Profiles on Social Platforms in Post-LMS world
Sparse thoughts on next-gen learning platforms. Where will profiles full of content-embedded assessment data sit? Perhaps profiles, like lots of other stuff, will just be social learning apps.
iPad will bring more innovation than i3
Real innovation is needed to close the achievement, teacher, and funding gap. It will come primarily from outside the system and from private enterprise; and it will be in spite of active discouragement from Ed.gov.
Building EdTech Markets in a Vacuum
Christopher Swanson, Vice President for research and development at Education Week, answers some questions about education technology and the evolution of a market for public education on a recent radio program. We are running this transcript from that interview.
Robert Hawkins: The Rise of Education Gaming
Robert Hawkins, World Bank, answers our questions about positive learning implications that can be delivered through the use of social gaming in public education and traditional instruction.
Ed Professionals: "What is Personalized Learning?"
We continue in our series of interviews with public education professionals, education entrepreneurs and the members of public education that are socially invested in creating a better future system for new generations of learners. In these video segments, we asked each to define personalized learning from their perspective.
Giving Shape to a Future Textbook
"With new technologies constantly coming on-line, and with states like California, Texas, and Oregon allowing digital curriculum to replace printed curriculum, the question arises: what will textbooks look like in the coming years?" Marie Bjerde from Qualcomm takes a look.
Ed Professionals: "What is Personalized Learning?"
We asked education professionals, education entrepreneurs, and members of America's public education system to describe their vision of personalized learning. Here is one in a series of clips from those interviews.