NYC $22 Mln Windfall Gives Online Access to Poor Students? Not Really.
But is this an award to benefit education, or a slick new proposal set to increase capacity for broadband suppliers?
Metacog: Management, Mode, Motivation, Mastery
Learning to learn: becoming metacognitive of management, mode, motivation, and leading to mastery
Innovation Stack
Big partnerships for learning mash-up space & app store based on research and open API data/assmt/content
Interview: Inigral CEO Michael Staton
It's not that students don't care, it's that they are producing work that nobody cares about. -- Michael Staton, CEO, Inigral
Jaime Casap, Google Education Evangelist
@jcasap makes a great point, and I wonder if it means we keep kids from finding future collaborators while in school.
Interview: Chad Ratliff, Albermarle County Public Schools
Chad Ratliff, Assistant Director of Instruction and Innovation Projects at Albermarle County Public Schools.
The American Public Obsolescence System
American public education has "issues." The most amazing thing about public education is how long we've been able to keep this downward trudge into obsolescence going, without relief.
Dreambox Acquired: More Blended Charters Coming
Reed Hastings of Netflix makes a move. Acquisition opens pathway to blended learning models
Less Deliberation, More Leadership
Tom Vander Ark looks for signs of leadership in the newly formed Senate HELP Committee.
Interview: Marc Porter Magee, COO, ConnCAN
Interview with Marc Porter Magee, ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer. Building upon his experience leading the communications, development, research and government affairs teams at ConnCAN, Magee is launching a new venture called 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now. Starting with a campaign in Rhode Island this spring, 50CAN hopes to reach one-third to one-half of the 50 states by 2015.