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RabbleBrowser: Improve Classroom Management With Mobile Learning
“The concept of the 60-minute learning block is broken,” says Chad Udell, the managing director of Float Mobile Learning (Float). “We’re entering an new age where what constitutes learning and what provides learning is changing.”
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Parents & Teachers Speak Up About Digital Learning In Ohio
This Wednesday, Tom Vander Ark, students, teachers, and parents testified in front of the Ohio House of Representatives' Education Committee in support of digital learning. Four students wowed the audience with their stories while several teachers and parents stood in strong support of students learning digitally today.
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4 Students Impress Ohio House Reps’ Ed Committee In Digital Learning
Lisa Duty, the Director of External Affairs at KnowledgeWorks, reported from the Ohio State Capitol during Wednesday’s first-event Digital Learning Day: On February 1st, 2012 Chairman Gerald Stebelton and the Ohio House of Representatives’ Education Committee heard testimony from Tom Vander Ark, Ohio education leaders, parents and…
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Q&A: Ohio Educators & Students Talk Digital Learning With House Education Committee
Yesterday I joined colleagues from KnowledgeWorks and testified before the Ohio House Education Committee chaired by Gerald Stebelton. They already passed HB153 expanding online options for students in Ohio, but they have work to do as I outlined in my testimony. I followed for very articulate students well served by online and blended schools. The committee asked great questions.
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Idaho Parents, Students Show Support for School Choice at the Capitol
Hundreds of parents and students attended today’s 2012 Capitol Day event in Boise. Run annually by the Coalition of Idaho Charter School Families, the day stands as a fun and educational way to introduce children to the workings of state government and the legislative process.
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39 States Celebrate Digital Learning Day Today
Today marks the first-ever Digital Learning Day (DLD), a day to celebrate outstanding teachers who leverage technology in the classroom to increase student learning opportunities in the 21st century. Governors, education chiefs, lawmakers, and policymakers across the nation look to DLD as game-changing reform for student-centered and competency-based learning.
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Ohio Should Expand Digital Learning Opportunity and Promote Innovation
The following is a testimony was prepared for the Ohio House of Representatives Committee on Education Hearing on Digital Learning on February 1, 2012.
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The Coming Education Revolution
In the worst economy since the Great Depression, Americans are struggling to earn a living, raise their families, and get an education. How will Americans adapt to learn, work, and connect in the future? A new book with findings from Apollo Research Institute describes how technology and the new job skills that will be required in the 21st century will transform higher education.
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Helping Teachers Move from Digital Learners to Digital Leaders
By: Dr. Idit Harel Caperton As we celebrate the first, national Digital Learning Day today, Wednesday, February 1, 2012, let's recognize the masters of this great profession and provide educators—young and experienced, tech-savvy and tech-novices—with all the supports they need to be successful as learners first, and leaders second.