Career & Technical Ed
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Ed Policy
Smart Cities: Phoenix
Openness to new ideas, smart impact investors, new school models, strong university presence, and a few high capacity districts suggests that Phoenix may be on the rise
Personalized Learning
It’s a Geometric World!
To date, we have 25 blog entries detailing the progress of our PBL project through student voice and pictures. The following links to a blog about Day 16 of our project. http://ksmithschool.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/geometric16/
EdTech
EdTech 10: Spring Fever
Spring has sprung and is overflowing with exciting launches and announcements of new products and tools. Here are this week’s 10 most exciting “sprouts” we picked out of the EdTech “garden.”
EdTech
An EdChat Soundtrack: 60 Songs to Keep Your Class Jammin’
Pretend this: every day of your teaching career there is a gigantic boombox (Yes, I was raised in the '80s) hovering just above your head. It includes a very intuitive and accurate D.J. who constantly selects just the right song at the right time.
Ed Policy
Smart Cities: New Orleans
Events like Mini Maker Faire prove that the future of school in New Orleans is a community effort - an effort by an entire city to invest in creativity, entrepreneurship, job creation in entire new industries, and the future of an entire city
EdTech
The Long Stretch Until Summer
Your day-to-day is anything but ordinary. Each day you have the opportunity to reach students in a way that nobody else can. You will spend more time with them in a given day than some of their parents. Your "boring" life involves shaping the future.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Hitting the Standards
But for dubious reasons some states are ignoring the opportunity and stepping off the innovation platform--it’s a bit like going back to Blackberry. For those of you in fast forward, here’s the top ten EdTech stories of the week.
Leadership
Building Innovation Partnerships
Guest Author: Greg Butler. We can no longer count on education systems to ‘fix’ education in isolation, the challenge will require multiple stakeholders working across organizational and sectorial boundaries to collaborate and innovate in continual inquiry based cycles of improvement.
Leadership
Do You Know Me? The Voice of a Disgruntled Student in a Boring Class
“Ignited by the opportunity for creative expression and fueled by talent-based, intrinsic motivation, students will relentlessly pursue higher truths and knowledge to create lives replete with challenges, service, integrity, happiness, fulfillment, and success.” We can call this standard TSBR-US1 (“This Should Be Reality-Universal Standard #1). It may not be too common in many classes, but I promise it will go right to the core of all students’ learning spirits.
Personalized Learning
Content Curation Through the SAMR Lens
There are a variety of helpful tools to choose from to make content curation fun and efficient. If you're just starting out, it’s important to choose a flexible tool that will grow with you as you strive to use technology to "Teach Above the Line" and transform learning.