blended learning
Personalized Learning

Befuddled by Blended Learning

Guest Author

By: Paul Curtis. Why we need to retire “blended learning” and set a more meaningful goal for educators like deeper, more personalized learning supported by digital and virtual learning experiences.
Leadership

How-To On Building a Culture of Innovation

Getting Smart Staff

A new framework from The Learning Accelerator and 2Revolutions features a comprehensive self-assessment tool that provides guideposts for education leaders to find where they are on the path to building a culture of innovation.
Personalized Learning

12 Reasons Every District Should Open a Flex School

Tom Vander Ark

Using a flex model, every community can afford to have a great high school. Every community should have a flex option that provides a fully supported individualized pathways to graduation. Every community should use a flex model to leverage local resources and meet specific needs. Every district should open a flex model so that everyone can visit and experience the future of education.
Personalized Learning

Former Lumberyard Transformed to Blended Learning School

Guest Author

At Intrinsic Charter School's new Chicago campus, spaces for blended learning didn’t have to get retrofitted into a traditional school. A former lumberyard, was a much better starting point for a permanent school designed specifically for blended learning.
Leadership

Teachers Taking Next-Gen Learning to Scale

Tom Vander Ark

The path to next generation learning for every student is bottom up, top down and sideways in. With teachers and leaders sharing a vision, putting it on a timetable, and building a supported path that allows everyone to be part of the vision.
EdTech

Diving Into Project-Based Learning? Heed these 7 Warnings

John Hardison

You see, creativity is not immune to the challenges that bond forward thinkers and risk-takers to their authentic ideas and handiwork. Au contraire, my colleagues, the hazards of embarking on a journey with your students to demonstrate mastery of curricula and to showcase talent can be likened to skydiving from 13,000 feet out of a perfectly functional Cessna 182.
Personalized Learning

Blended Learning Demands Big Open Spaces

Tom Vander Ark

My neighborhood high school is a 50-year-old spider web of additions crammed on to a downtown lot it shares with the district kitchen and stadium. It has little street appeal, no connection with the natural world, and is an energy hog. Like many high schools, the primary architectural features include rows of classrooms off narrow hallways, a cafeteria, and a main office.