Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is a mindset and approach to teaching that focuses on meeting each learner where they are and tailoring a curriculum that considers their interests, prior knowledge and skill level, and pace. Such a demand on the teacher requires sophisticated usage of technology in a combination of personalized, blended and online learning.
3 Ways to Teach Everything Through Inquiry
If inquiry-based teaching is superior to traditional teaching, could or should it replace the way we teach everything to everyone? In inquiry teaching, the learner constructs meaning from new information and experiences.
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.
Why Children Who Play Succeed
Health researchers have finally documented what veteran teachers have long understood: A young person’s social competence is a major driver of future success. In other words, children who play well with others do better in life.
It’s Time For A New Assessment System
The #ShiftToDigital and new federal flexibility makes 2016 the right time to think about assessment pilots and innovation zones.
Michael Barber: Become Your Own Career Agent
Whether employment or contracting, work is now a negotiation between a company and an individual. Barber said, “People want to learn, to have meaning, to work with great people, making a difference.”
Cognitive Learning Fuels the Corporate Wellness Movement
Organizations are using a variety of well-being programs to improve employees health and create happy, productive, thriving workforces.
Getting Smart’s Top Stories of 2015
2015 was HUGE for GettingSmart.com. In this blog we look back at Getting Smart's most viewed and beloved blogs of 2015.
Online + Community-Based Learning = VSOE’s Personalized Path
Virtual Schools of Excellence (VSOE) supports next-gen blends that combine online and community-based learning, full or part time, for public and private schools.
Taking Competency-Based Learning to the Masses: Sanborn Leads Competency Design Studio
Here is your invitation to collaborate with some of the most innovative and forward-thinking school districts in the country to redesign and reimagine schools to meet the needs of all learners.
What’s on the Horizon for EdTech & Education in 2016
So what does 2016 have in store for innovations in learning? We asked learning leaders what they see on the horizon, and what they hope will change for learners in the new year.