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Weekly news coverage focused on innovations in teaching and learning that have the potential to improve access and opportunity for learners everywhere. We encourage you to tweet us (@Getting_Smart) a news items that you’d like us to consider using #innov8 or to email [email protected] with “Innov8” in the subject line.

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EdTech 10: Launches, Reports and Transitions

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 30, 2015

It has been a big week for reports from Digital Learning Now and Pearson, launches from Knewton and IMS Global, and transitions involving leaders like Heather Staker, and companies like Scholastic.

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EdTech 10: Spring Has Sprung

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 23, 2015

Whether it’s educators finally recognizing opportunities to blend instruction or the launch of new game-based learning programs this week’s top EdTech news stories focused on springing toward new beginnings.

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EdTech 10: Season’s In Full Swing

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 16, 2015

This week we recognized all-stars with the CODiEs and DILAs, dove deep into the future of assessment, and whether it was state policy, coding awareness, or new acquisitions, we arrived in spring with welcomed inspiration and hope for the year ahead.

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EdTech 10: Personalization As A Priority

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 9, 2015

This week as knowledge economy leaders gathered at ASU+GSV to move the needle in expanding opportunities, efforts in EdTech made real, new ways to personalize and enrich the learning experience.

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EdTech 10: Students At The Center

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 2, 2015

This is one of those weeks in EdTech news that we wish would be every week, because this week the top stories that emerged focused on putting students at the center. When it came to assessments, rights, parents, new videos, reports, and platforms, student learning was paramount.

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EdTech 10: Pilots, Partnerships and Parents

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 26, 2015

Prepare yourself. This week’s EdTech 10 is brought to you by the letter “P” with announcements from President Obama, news on Podcasts, package deals on games, new research of parent perception by PlayScience, The Post producing new content, and resources for smart parents.

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EdTech 10: It’s March Madness Baby

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 19, 2015

Be it in your bracket or your inbox, knowing the most relevant and important information, in March Madness or in EdTech, is fundamental to understanding how you can advance as a learner on and off the court.

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EdTech 10: Live from SXSWedu 2015

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 12, 2015

As SXSWedu 2015 comes to an end, we're excited to bring you 10 announcements you'll want to note, share and follow!

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EdTech 10: It’s The Final Countdown To SXSWedu

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 5, 2015

10 doses of EdTech news to be in the know about prior to another epic SXSWedu to avoid "CBS" aka "Conference Behavior Syndrome."

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EdTech 10: Warming Up

Getting Smart Staff

Feb 26, 2015

With New England, much of the midwest and now the south experiencing a record breaking winter, this week’s EdTech news was anything but cold as stories were hot off the press as ever.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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