Personalized Learning

Lit Instructor, Stafford

In The Courage To Teach, Parker Palmer uses this Bill Stafford (former poet laureate of Oregon) poem to open a chapter titled A Culture of Fear. Lit Instructor Day after day up there beating my wings with all of the softness truth requires…

Ed Policy

Modern Policy for Modern Learners

A Getting Smart white paper that describes opportunities for expanded access to high-quality education created by high-access, connected learning environments and calls for policy updates to support expanded access.

Personalized Learning

The Cost-Comparability Conundrum

We’re stuck and $365 million may not help. The United States places an unusual degree of importance on the reliability of yearend standardized tests.  These tests have been around for 15 years and, because we have so little performance data, we try to use them for a variety of purposes. …

Personalized Learning

Mobile Learning Maturing (Slowly)

Article worth reading in EdWeek on mobile learning.  I particularly like what Seth Weinberger at Innovations for Learning is doing with the $100 TeacherMate, a cool primary reading and math handheld game pad. See feature in next months Fast Company. Getting close to the device and price point…

EdTech

A Brief Guide to Tech Training for Faculty

Educators deal with a reality that most tech users do not: responsibility to their students. And, students can be a tricky sort, at least according to reports claiming that some want more tech use in the classroom, while others say that they prefer traditional books and lectures.

Ed Policy

EdTech 10: When Working Together Works

This week's EdTech news revolved around working together to get things done with new leadership opportunities, support for strategies and models, insights into trends and perspectives, and advances in platform integration,

Personalized Learning

Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’?

“Radical customization, constant experimentation, and novel business models will be new hallmarks of competition as companies capture and analyze huge volumes of data. “ The McKinsey Quarterly ran a great article last month calling the question, Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’? Their five big questions are adapted here for education.