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Teaching Tech Tools
One way to personalize learning is to create opportunities for young women to learn coding. It's a conversation I've seen on several blogs. In today's world, if you want to start a company or run a successful marketing, investing, media or any other kind of shop, you need people like this to strengthen and maintain your online presence and activity.
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Do We Need Textbooks?
Blair Levin says that we should not be be worried about the right or wrong type of content for textbooks. Instead, we should be answering the question, "Do we need print textbooks at all?".
Personalized Learning
In Search of EduProductivity
Here's a few ideas for states strapped for cash but still interested in boosting learning gains
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At the Moment of Teaching, Part II
Here is part II of a two part video series about the need for interoperability in America's education infrastructure. Brought to you by Agilix, for the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC.
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Georgia's Virtual Schools Funding Formula
After a request for information, the Georgia Governor's Office of Planning and Budget has sent the funding formula it uses to calculate monies for virtual schools.
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Yes, Learning is Rocket Science
BYU's Dean K. Richard Young says he's bothered by people who claim the science of learning isn't "rocket science." He makes a bold claim about leadership to make interoperability happen.
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Learning Powered by Technology
Digital learning will be the education system of the future. Steven Midgley, Deputy Director, Office of Education Technology, US Dept of Education presents a lesson on how the government will help to incorporate technology into American education. But the government won't do it alone. There must be private and public help.
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How Disruptive Thinking Changes Education
This is the presentation Michael Horn from the Innosight Institute is giving the members of the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC this morning. You can follow along by looking at the #intop hashtag on Twitter.
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At The Moment of Teaching, Part I
This is part one of a two part video series that we will be running today on edReformer. It's brought to you by the members of Agilix, who are hosting the Interoperability Forum in Washington, DC. The forum is in effort to break down the barriers that many entrepreneurs believe are keeping real innovation from happening in education.
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Emerging Markets on Parity with American Ed System?
What makes this story interesting is not that Agilix is doing something with MSFT. What makes it interesting is that right now the emerging markets world and the industrialized nations are 50-50 when it comes to their uptake of MSFT servers and equipment that can enable personalized learning. Who would have thought...