Personalized Learning
Stop dumb stuff, start smart stuff
I’m stuck on a comment in Bill Maher’s closing commentary last week. He said something like, “In America, we can’t stop doing dumb stuff and we can’t start anything big and important.” Once a government program gets started, we can’t kill it after it has served its…
EdTech
Video Testimonies: Dave Anderson and Laurel Dumont
Dave Anderson from Headsprout and Laurel Dumont from The Center for Collaborative Change tell edReformer what they are doing in education.
Personalized Learning
Customize Learning for Student Success
CCSSO and iNACOL hosted a competency-based learning summit where the focus was the shift from time and tradition to kids, learning and the importance of personalized digital learning.
EdTech
Reading the Tea Leaves of Blended Learning
There needs to be a stronger mix of qual and quant methods that can capture the impact of learning with technology, such as the study of: human-computer interaction; the brain (cognitive learning); the senses (visual, design); and system and social dynamics, according to Dr. Kelly Edmonds, an online learning consultant.
Personalized Learning
More Widgets, Fewer #2 Pencils
With last week's launch of the $350m federal grant program last week, National Journal is hosting a conversation about student assessment. Here's my contribution.
EdTech
Mike Smith's OER List
List of open educational resources from someone who knows where to look.
Personalized Learning
Obama on Dropout Prevention (not ESEA)
President Obama addressed the dropout crisis this week. He outlined federal efforts to support turnaround efforts and mentioned the Central Falls effort as an example, “As my Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, says, our kids get only one chance at an education, and we need to get it right.”…
EdTech
White House Announces STEM Challenge
The White House is ramping up efforts again to push the STEM agenda. This time the focus is on developing video games and technology that foster greater learning opportunities for kids.
EdTech
World Ed No Longer a Trend but a Reality
According to a New York Times storyline: "For decades the United States attracted more than a quarter of all foreign students in college or graduate education. Recently that has begun to change."