blended learning
Personalized Learning
10 Resources to Promote Personalized Learning
A couple people called last week looking for advice for state and district leaders on personalized learning. Here's a recap of our conversations.
Leadership
New Paper: Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day
Last month we launched a preview of our new white paper, “Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day,” and today we’ve launched the full paper including all 20 of our Deeper Learning school profiles.
Personalized Learning
Blending Alone (Part 2): How to Blend Your Own PD
It is important to keep in mind that of the many learning journeys that will be happening in your classroom... one of them will be yours.
Personalized Learning
Hoover Conference Explores Blended Learning
The panel concluded that blended learning has to be a bottom up, organic adoption by teachers--a reflection of the schools and districts they represented. The panel missed the “extended reach” strategies outlined by Opportunity Culture and in the SmartSeries paper, Improving Conditions and Careers.
Personalized Learning
Blending Alone: How to Blend in a Non-Blended Environment
I can tell you that the following pieces of advice aren’t the result of strategies that worked out of the gate, but rather iterations of ideas and mistakes driven by the idea that blended learning is what is best for students. So the question is, what needs to change to make this transition as smooth as possible for all involved?
Ed Policy
10 Sources of Inspiration for Next-Gen Learning Systems
Easier said than done, right? We could keep adding technology to current schools but that would just create a more expensive version of what we have.
Personalized Learning
Overcoming the English Teacher Tech Blues
I have never minded the messiness of learning that sometimes comes with using technology. I have never believed in a right answer to interpreting a poem or a right way to write an essay, so I’ve never really been frightened by the vastness of interpretation that populates the Internet. Instead, I’m excited by the expanding universe of literature, reading, writing, and language.
Personalized Learning
Why is Math So Important?
To quote the futurist Alvin Toffler, “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but, rather those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” A solid foundation in mathematics and science develops and hones the skills of posing hypotheses, designing experiments and controls, analyzing data, recognizing patterns, seeking evidence, conclusions and proof, solving problems and seeking absolutes, while being open to new information.
Personalized Learning
Smart Cities: Los Angeles (part 2 of 2)
With new blends and more EdTech startups, things are heating up in the City of Angels. Catch Startup Weekend or one of the blended learning workshops.
Ed Policy
How Teachers Can Best Use Tech
We are in the early years of a learning revolution that has the potential to profoundly improve the reach and quality of American schooling. However, getting digital learning right is more about the planning than the purchase order. It’s not about the technology, but about what we do with it.