Post-Secondary

Post-secondary is a shifting space — four year degrees may not always be the fit and new alternatives are being created at an alarming rate. This topic encompasses everything from higher ed to adult learning and workforce pipelines and development.

EdTech

How Google Glass Can Help Students Make Better Music

Improving the day-to-day class experience is an important use of the product, but Johnston Turner has bigger ideas about ways Google Glass can aid in conducting and composing. “I’m also interested in how the Internet and digital technology are changing our brains and changing how we think,” she told me.

Innov8

EdTech 10: The Good Stuff

Happy Saturday! We are half way through November and definitely feeling thankful for so many interesting and good things happening in the world of education this week.

Personalized Learning

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons Give Students a More Active Role in the Research Process

In a recent, highly publicized event, Brown University hosted an Edit-a-Thon focused on improving the representation of women in science on the site. Those who participated in the project were given resources on how to make Wikipedia edits that will stick, and a long list of women who had been overlooked on the site altogether or who had insufficient articles that could be fleshed out.

Personalized Learning

Interview | Code Together Now

“I decided to take on leadership of Code Together because of the many and growing opportunities for collaborative technologies on the web,” she says. “I’m excited to see where we will take Code Together as Treaty (an embeddable document editor) and Squad continue to grow.”

Personalized Learning

#iNACOL13: The Happiest Place on Earth

This year’s iNACOL conference brought to life the true meaning of online and blended learning- it has to be a give and take and the more you contribute, the more knowledge you take away. As always our team is blown away by the passion and dedication of education leaders around the country and feel privileged to cover and participate in these amazing events. We were humbled by how much was given and the amount of knowledge we received.

Personalized Learning

Hot Off The ePress: DLN Ebook

Navigating the Digital Shift” offers updated versions of white papers originally released in the DLN Smart Series including contributions from 11 authors representing leading organizations such as Public Impact, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), CompetencyWorks and The Learning Accelerator. Topics include strategies for blended learning implementation, how technology can improve teaching conditions and careers, the potential of competency-based learning, the opportunities of secure student data to empower personalized learning, and the reality of online learning for students and teachers.