EdTech
Top 10 Headlines On Getting Smart
Check out the most popular headlines on Getting Smart this Novmeber, which include "SKYRIM: How far r uu??!!," "Top 10+ TED Videos on Education and Learning," "Fixing Education: Fareed Zakaria's CNN Special Report," "WSJ Picks Problems, Misses the Promise of Learning Online" and more.
EdTech
Puget Sound Districts Share Electronic Records to Personalize Learning
Seattle area districts are personalizing learning using sharing expanded electronic student records. Facilitated by the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD), seven districts between Seattle and Tacoma won a $40 million Race to the Top Grant and fundamental to their work is what Data Quality Campaign calls data portability.
EdTech
PLATO Launches New STEM Courses & Customer Support
PLATO Learning, an online learning provider, announced this week the launch of its winter product release, which will expand its course offerings in STEM, language learning, and college preparedness as well as a support site for customers.
Personalized Learning
MA "Innovation" Regs Block Innovation
Disastrous online learning regs considered in MA provides no waivers, limits enrollment to local districts and limits size to 500 students. This is one place where small schools is a dumb idea.
Ed Policy
The Transformational Leader
By: Carmen Coleman. In this blog for our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Carmen writes about the need for education transformation, and what skills leaders need to help better meet the needs of 21st century learners.
Leadership
Investing in Productivity: How to Pay For Blended Learning
We’re seeing more CapEx thinking in education (as I first pointed out in 2010). You may recall from Finance 101 that capital expenditures are funds invested to produce future benefit--positive cash flows (costs savings or net revenues) resulting in a return on investment higher than the cost of capital.
Difference Making
Three Best Practices for GenDIY to Build Successful Career Pathways
By: Jodi Glickman. The career path discovery process isn’t about spending years drifting--it’s about hard work, finding interesting opportunities and trusting “the dots will connect.” For GenDIY, Jody Glickman suggests focusing on three areas: learning, earning and contributing.
Personalized Learning
How to shift kid's media time to learning?
Three strategies to shift a portion of the time young people spend on entertainment/media to productive learning activities
Personalized Learning
Ouchi is almost right and late to the party
Bill Ouchi, back in EdWeek, is still pitching decentralization a decade after a bunch of us showed that it was a thin theory. In nearby districts, John Stanford and I both did the 100 flowers approach with pretty thin accountability. We assumed that people knew what to do and would…