Infographic: How to Extend the Reach of Excellent Teachers
Did you know that only 25 percent of classes are taught by excellent teachers? We need to find ways to leverage great teachers and extend their talents to more students through the use of technology, new classroom models, and more.
Science Worth Reading in the New Year
Lisa Randall, a Professor of Physics at Harvard, was Fareed Zakaria’s GPS this morning talking about her new book Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Fareed also interviewed Daniel Kaheman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. We added a few more recommendations for great science reading in 2012. What's on your reading list?
Top 10 Impactful Education White Papers & Reports
Check out these 10 impactful white papers and reports on the ways that education will shift in the future: A Natural Primer On K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 Blended Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning The Online Learning…
Next Generation Blends will Teach to One
Over the last three years, the New Classrooms team has developed an instructional model that seeks to addresses the inherent limitations in one of the more common forms of blended learning-rotational models- where students transition among two or three learning stations within a class period.
Dream Lake Students Knighted as Math Learners
Patty Weisbach, Assistant Principal at Dream Lake Elementary, says she has countless stories about the ways that ST Math’s JiJi the penguin, created by MIND Research Institute, created a culture of success around math at her school. Yet, one story in particular stands out.
Good Work: The Abundance Mindset
There are two kinds of change agents—angry ones and hopeful one. The hopeful ones work toward new solutions. A subset of them approach the world with the ‘abundance mindset’ knowing that we’re riding an exponential curve that promises innovation. Abundant mindsets have mapped the human genome and launched space flights; they will expand access to quality education and extend life. They might even fix Washington DC.
Alpine Advances Online and in Blended Learning
Alpine School District , the largest in Utah, serves more than 73,000 students in 80 schools in a sprawling area south of Salt Lake City. It has among the lowest per-pupil-funding in the country, but strong academic results. The district has several partnerships with local companies resulting in school-wide improvements and individual student success stories.
Day in the life of online learner; limited social networks
1. Read Learning Without Limits for a good description of a 5th graders day in Florida Virtual School. 2. Despite all the teacher social network startups, the “National Online Survey of District Technology Directors Exploring District Use of Web 2.0 Technologies” …
Charters, Common Core & EdTech Headline Education Nation
Mayor Bloomberg kicked off the morning with a growling defense of Chicago mayor Rahm Emauel. He said, "We should evaluate and pay teachers as skilled professionals." He announced expanded access to full day K next year and the first Eeducare school an early childhool leadership institute thanks to Susan Buffet.
Techlandia, For Your Listening Pleasure
I’m not exactly sure how my love of listening to podcasts transformed into recording one, but over the last six months it has. We now Google hangout every Saturday night to talk about 3 apps, 3 good people to follow on Twitter and 3 cool things happening in education, strip the audio from the Youtube, post it to iTunes, and label it Techlandia.