Ron Packard Commentary on Education
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Apolo Ohno, Online Learning Pioneer
Apolo Ohno is one of the biggest stars of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Tonight he begins his quest to be the most decorated American at the Winter Olympics. What you probably don’t know is that Ohno was one of the first graduates of the Internet Academy, one of…
The Spirit of New Jersey and Spirit of Newark
The Spirit of New Jersey is a competitive performing arts & music education organization which participates in the Drum Corps International Summer Music Games Tour. We're an independent, self-sponsored, non-profit corporation which is recognized nationally for excellence in youth programming.
Video: Blended Learning Explained
Education Elements published a video recently on the "Fundamentals of Blended Learning," narrated by Michael Thompson. The video takes a close look at blended learning and its models.
Course Access: How Guthrie Continues Working to be the Best Little School on the Planet.
By: Nelson Coulter. Small schools in rural areas often struggle to find teachers for high-need or specialized instructional areas. Read more on how a rural Texas school solved this by creating its own virtual school, offering its students much needed course access for graduation requirements.
Good Work: When Bliss doesn’t pay the Bills
Dave Matthews was on NPR last night. He said, “There's some thing about those moments of bliss,” he explained to Guy Raz. “My dad always said to find your bliss…and then pursue it.” Matthews never thought he’d still be touring at 45 “but the moments of bliss make it hard to walk away—it's akin to an addiction, when the joy is so big its like being a kid, that laughter, that spontaneity is hunger inducing." But what if your bliss doesn't pay the bills?
Kaggle Driving Innovation By Hosting Big Data Competitions
Kaggle hosts data competitions. They call it "An innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing." Kaggle invites companies, governments and NGOs to present datasets and problems and then invites the world's best data scientists then compete to produce the best solutions. Grockit is sponsoring the first education prize on Kaggle. OpenEd announced an education prize partnership with Kaggle yesterday.
#TCEA14: 5 to Follow Under 500
Conferences like TCEA are a great way for new-to-Twitter folks to gain some momentum, so here are 5 folks at #TCEA14 with less than 500 followers that you should follow:
Staff Picks: RTT-D, Digital Tools
Tom Picks “RTT-District: Scaling Personalizing Innovations“ Tom says, “The $383 million school district federal grant program will help two dozen US districts make the shift to personal digital learning.” Karen Picks “20 Schools Innovating With Digital Tools” Karen says, “It is good to see the…
The Alliance Addresses New Digital Learning Imperatives In K12
This month, the former Governor Bob Wise's Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) released "The Digital Imperative: How Technology and Teaching Meet Today's Education Challenges," a report showcasing the ways technology can better prepare students for college and career as an update to its report nearly two years ago.