EdTech

One-to-One Project Launches in Illinois

Getting Smart Staff

"Whether these students are at school, at play, at home or elsewhere, they will have access to anytime, anywhere learning. This immediate access is what they are used to in their daily lives with their iPhones and other mobile devices; we need to meet them in their digital world.”

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EduPoem: To Be of Use

Tom Vander Ark

Nancy Hoffman, Jobs for the Future was probably the first person to share this Marge Piercy poem with me.   I thought of it at Philanthropy Roundtable yesterday where I saw so many edu=entrepreneurs making a difference for kids.  To Be of Use…

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Museums & MOOCs

wkehl

Earlier this month, I wrote about museums and alternate models of accessibility, from mobile brain science museums to portable pop-up hands-on STEM ‘museums’. These models, although mobile, still exist in a physical space – and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Think Tank is filled with brain science technology that just isn’t available to the average person, and the whole point of the Foundation for Early Learning’s Uni project is to bring hands-on science-related activities into public spaces.
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NCAA Way Out of Bounds for Outlawing Online

Tom Vander Ark

Thousands of student athletes are ineligible to compete in college because the NCAA took on a job where they had no business. The NCAA needs to fix this situation. It’s bad for education, dangerous for the online learning sector and, more importantly, it’s bad for thousands of students.