Museums & MOOCs
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.
Cross Pollinating Education Ideas in Milwaukee
At Schools That Can Milwaukee, we’ve assembled an unprecedented and growing cross-sector network of more than 185 talented leaders from 33 schools all over the city.
Why STEM, Why Now? The Washington STEM Summit
The Washington STEM summit is all about inspiration, innovation, implementation and passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
NCAA Way Out of Bounds for Outlawing Online
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.
Staff Picks: Higher Ed, Digital Learning, Math Education, SmartTech
Karen Picks “Changing the Economics of Higher Education” Karen says, “I’m a big believer in higher education, having served on a community college board, and we have quite a few college degrees in our family, but both of my children obtained their degrees with alternative/combination high school-college…
10 Tips for Starting Your Blog
Does New Years Resolution or 2015 planning include starting a blog? Here's 10 tips to get you started.
It’s Time to Reimagine School Information
Introducing a national design competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of education.
Cohen Bullish on Path Forward for McGraw-Hill Education
Cohen and his colleagues in higher education, international, and assessment, are "becoming a solution partner, rather than instructional resource partner." That means "Converting from being focused on instructional resources to systems where you provide outcomes regardless of whether inputs are created internally or externally."
Teacher spotlight: Tom DeRosa
Tom DeRosa is a teacher, writer and blogger living in in the Rio Grande Valley. His blog I Want to Teach Forever is a great online resource for teachers -- and a good read too!
Giving Students a Voice
Zak Malamed is convinced that the “idea of student voice, as individual and organizational level, needs to be promoted” and as a student himself, he is working to make it happen.