EdTech

The Last Union Stand?

Union days of wielding power may be numbered; techno panels; Bloomberg praising teachers (well, some of them); new education web sites; policy support; training teachers; student progress; community college all the rage; Bill and Melinda Gates put money into completion rates

Personalized Learning

Fix or Replace Federal Education Policy?

The Department of Education has an assignment that’s about five years late: reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, called No Child Left Behind by 43).  It’s a difficult assignment that requires collaboration of the contentious—to have good chance of passing Summer 2010, it would require the unions…

Innov8

EdTech 10: What’s Trending

Even with a shortened holiday week there is plenty of news to share! This week's top 10 list shares massive changes in the ways we learn, design our schools, teach, and provide high quality education at scale.

Personalized Learning

Part 1: To Personalize Learning, First Personalize Teaching

The irony is hardly lost on anyone when at education-related professional conferences educators sit in the audience as experts lecture them about how to teach as a guide-on-the-side rather than a sage-on-the stage. A “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” moment that often has even the lecturer chuckling.

Personalized Learning

Why the Feds Matter Less

Despite a dysfunctional do-nothing congress, the learning revolution will march on quickly and quietly creating new options for students and families.

EdTech

Indiana School District Replaces Textbooks With 1:1 Laptop Program

The New York Times published an article this week on the traditional Indiana School District's switch to a 1:1 laptop program, which replaced textbooks for 2,600 students in Muster, Ind. The school district replaced all its math and science textbooks for students in grades 5-12 with a $1.1 million project for digital learning infrastructure in a new 1:1 laptop program.