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Personalized Learning
Value-Added Data Adds Value
Value-added data should be added to teacher evaluations. Then we should make the whole system smarter with personal digital learning.
EdTech
Gov Christie: Failure is Not an Option
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave a powerful education speech at Excellence in Action in DC tonight.
EdTech
State of Black Connecticut Alliance Hosts Ceremony
The event will be held at the Hilton Stamford Hotel, One First Stamford Place, Stamford, CT, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm on December 16. Tickets are $125.00. There will be a VIP Public Policy Strategy Building Session 5:00pm - 6:30pm. It features Congressman Chaka Fattah as keynote speaker, and appearances by Michelle Rhee, RiShawn Biddle, and the CT Commission on Educational Achievement.
EdTech
From Design to K12 Equity
Why is a designer from San Francisco teaching in North Carolina's poorest county?
Personalized Learning
Making College/Career Ready Real
Grades are are a relic of the sorting-machine age-cohort model. Standards-based feedback is a small but critical step toward a personalized competency-based system that makes standards real on a daily basis.
Personalized Learning
Best of Fall
Here's a dozen blog posts I enjoyed working on this fall; take a look if you missed them the first time around. Happy Thanksgiving.
EdTech
Certification Promotes Quality, Colleges Play a Role
Lisa Dawley, Boise State, responded to an October 6 story about states adding certification for online learning and a hallway chat at iNACOL’s VSS2010. Â She makes a case below for certification and school of ed training. Â The Digital Learning Council is likely to recommend path-speicific performance-based certification after demonstrated…
Personalized Learning
Leadership by Any Means
Comments on Larry Cuban's two part series; big districts should consider non-traditional leaders.
Personalized Learning
Duncan’s Most Important Speech
Duncan attacks the factory model, seniority, LIFO and calls for transformational change and edtech as force multiplier
Personalized Learning
The Pivot to Digital Learning: 40 Predictions
We're living through a historic shift from batch print education to personal digital learning. Here's how it will play out over the next 1, 5, and 10 years.