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7 Trends That Shaped 2014; 7 Problems We’ll Solve in 2015

Tom Vander Ark

Dec 31, 2014

There were 7 trends that shaped US education in 2014. Continued progress in the new year will result in solutions to 7 challenges.

EdTech

Got Red-Pen Grading Cramps? Kaizena Can Help

John Hardison

Nov 5, 2014

There once was a time when the only tool available to grade essays was the proverbial red pen. But not any longer. Kaizena is today's red pen.

Personalized Learning

Formative Assessment: Progress, Barriers and Opportunity

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 8, 2014

The progress made, current barriers and opportunities that face formative assessment with the ongoing shift to digital learning and increasing access new technologies and data.

EdTech

Turnitin Acquisition of LightSide to Impact 24 Million Students Worldwide

tyler

Oct 7, 2014

LightSide Labs has been acquired by Turnitin. This acquisition will begin the integration of LightSide’s writing assessment platform with Turnitin’s global writing originality checking and grading system used by over 10,000 institutions worldwide.

EdTech

MasteryConnect: From Viral Assessment Tool to Classroom Game Changer

Tom Vander Ark

Sep 25, 2014

Acquisition updates and insights on MasteryConnect, the viable business, classroom game changer, and software-as-a-service provider.

Personalized Learning

Seeing What is Possible Makes Possibilities Exciting

Getting Smart Staff

Sep 15, 2014

An interview of former Napa Valley Unified School District Administrator, Dr. Laura Ryan, on why her school district chose Scholastic's READ 180/System 44 to help their struggling readers achieve.

EdTech

Teachers Deserve Better Tools for Tracking Subskills

Tom Vander Ark

Jul 31, 2014

Most schools have no way to combine the assessment information from multiple sources in ways that are useful for driving instructional improvement or managing student progress. While this seems to be an easy problem to solve, there appear to be four significant problems.

EdTech

12 Features of the Next-Gen Platform

Getting Smart Staff

May 9, 2014

This infographic highlights the twelve features key to supporting performance assessment as identified by the Deeper Learning Student Assessment Initiative.

Ed Policy

Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning

Getting Smart Staff

May 1, 2014

Today Digital Promise and Getting Smart released “Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning: Competency-Based Teacher Preparation and Development.” This white paper outlines the attributes of next-generation teacher preparation and makes recommendations to support the development of teacher preparation and development systems.

Competency-Based Education

Infographic: Competency-Based Teacher Prep & PD

Getting Smart Staff

Apr 28, 2014

This infographic, “Competency-Based Teacher Preparation & Professional Development,” outlines how the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended and deeper learning.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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