Pandemic Opportunity: Rethink Education Accountability
[…] Pandemic Edition The Biggest Source of Inequity Might Be the Way We Fund Schools To help inform and deliver new agreements, new practices, and new tools Getting Smart and eduInnovation are exploring the Invention Opportunity thanks to support from the Walton Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are […]
Hybrid Instruction Creates More Time for Formative Assessments
[…] For more, see: Focusing on Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distance Learning 6 Questions to Ask for Protecting Student Data in Distance Learning Jamie Meristotis on Human Wor in the Age of Smart Machines Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update.
Teaching Through Change, Stories of Resilience: Austin ISD
[…] Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tapper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distanced Teaching Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations, and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
[…] their Professional Learning Experience Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students This post is part five of a five blog series in the upcoming “Getting Smart on Competency-Based Career Advancement at Harmony Public Schools” produced in partnership with Harmony Public Schools (@HarmonyEdu). Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for […]
How To Unblock Curiosity And Build Creativity
[…] Development: Pandemic Edition The Biggest Source of Inequity Might be The Way We Fund Schools Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. This post includes mentions of a Getting Smart partner. For a full list of partners, affiliate organizations and all other disclosures, please see our Partner […]
Reimagining the Textbook with Virtual Reality
[…] country to pitch their innovative business ideas. This was our second year participating in the Challenge; last year, when we presented live in London, we used a SMART Board to survey the students in the audience in real-time about their learning styles, which helped make our case to the judges that Scintilla addresses a […]
We Built Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online–Science Has the Fix
[…] complicated, it is–learning and development are highly individual. These 12 factors suggest supportive learning environments and sustained relationships. The opportunity is not about working harder, it’s creating smarter systems. The last three factors suggest that learners can and should take on an increasingly active role in co-constructing learning pathways themselves as well as providing […]
How to Take Responsibility for the Future of Education
[…] Norway” (to appear in Leading and Transforming Education Systems edited by Michelle Jones and Alma Harris). Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the weekly Smart Update. To help inform and deliver new agreements, new practices, and new tools Getting Smart and eduInnovation are exploring the Invention Opportunity thanks to support from the Walton […]
4 Ways to Develop Anti-Racism
[…] more, see: Karen Cator and Vic Vuchic on Whole Child Focused EdTech and Inclusive Education ‘Imagine Project’ Turns Trauma into Strength, Empathy, and Sense of Community Getting Smart on Competency-Based Career Advancement at Harmony Public Schools Christine M. T. Pitts, Ph.D., is a Research and Evaluation Manager at Portland Public Schools and former Policy […]
Crossing the Skills Gap Between Industry 4.0 and CTE Programs
[…] the skills gap between worker training at high school career and technical education (CTE) levels and Industry 4.0 is being driven by the new technology incorporated into smart manufacturing. This skills gap preceded the current disruption of COVID-19 and is being exacerbated by it. Although hands-on training is now more difficult as a result […]
