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Movies Remind Us, Even Scientific Quests are Personal Ones
By: Janine Ingram. As both new movies, 'Interstellar' and 'The Theory of Everything' explore, it all comes down to this value proposition... What knowledge will we seek, what places will we go, what will we risk, what will we invest in – for those we love?
EdTech 10: From #iNACOL14, With Love
This week's EdTech 10 highlights news and developments from the 2014 iNACOL conference in Palm Springs, CA and beyond.
Developing an Innovation Mindset
The most important aspect of career readiness may be developing an innovation mindset. Read, write, visit and think to create yours.
13 Barriers to Education Innovation
Changes in leadership, varied stakeholders and low sharing are just a handful of 13 barriers to education innovation.
The Literary Revolver: An Interactive Structure from Studio 113
Frankly speaking, interactive learning structures work. By merging standards-based prompts, random selectiveness, a backchannel, improvisational acting, and overall creativity, Studio 113’s fairly new “Literary Revolver” places students on an engaging, challenging, and fun path to lesson mastery.
So You’re Already a Connected Educator… Now What?
You can completely transform learning for your students by sharing ideas or connecting with other classrooms around the world. Check out these 5 things to focus on once you have taken the plunge to becoming a connected educator.
6 Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Leader: Your Personal “SWOT” Analysis
Getting Smart Team Member, Jennifer Aalgaard, reflects and shares her leadership development tactics she learned through Western Governors University.
3 Organizations Selected by The Learning Accelerator for Grants in Blended Learning Human Capital
The Learning Accelerator announced the selection of three finalists who will receive nearly $1 million for principal trainings, teacher professional development platforms, and further implementation of a previously funded teacher fellowship program.
6 Tips for Student Motivation
Daniel Pink (@DanielPink), author of Drive about the science behind motivation, is out with a new book called To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth of Moving Others. Here are 6 powerful tips gleaned from his recent webinar on motivation and persuasion.
What’s the Uber for Education?
An Uber-like education would be student-centered: personalized, competency-based, with high student ownership, and would happen anywhere anytime.