blended learning
Ed Policy
Putting It All Together to Make Schools Smarter
Third in a series, this post considers the investment, innovation, and employment models that will create smarter schools and more attractive environments and career pathways for educators.
EdTech
The Promise of EdTech: Customization, Motivation, & Equalization
The premise of Getting Smart is that new tools and new schools are changing old assumptions about what is possible--a trifecta of customization, motivation, and equalization. This is the second of three posts sharing quotes and comments from the book.
Ed Policy
Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World- 2013 Update
The first draft of Getting Smart was written three years ago and a lot has changed since then. Thirty months isn’t a lot of time…except when you’re in the middle of a revolution.
EdTech
A Slight #Engchat Re-Purposing of Widbook (Part 1)
After a solid understanding has been established, I strive to follow up with a limitless, free-thinking session that centers on one essential question: “How can this technological tool be repurposed as an educational instrument?”
EdTech
The Future of Learning—Digital, Mobile, Real-Time
The latest results from Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow and an advisor to DreamBox, and her Speak Up 2012 National Research Project and Project Tomorrow survey of 364,233 participants, shows the upward spiral of tech use, even by the very young.
Personalized Learning
One Family’s Holiday Gift: A Love of Mathematics
Math is deep, and I can appreciate that not everyone, even people who love math, want to jump into the deep end on Christmas Eve. I’ve never been a person accustomed to small talk though, so a conversation about place value on Christmas Eve seems like as good a topic as any.
EdTech
12 Days of a Blended Christmas
Merry Christmas to our Getting Smart readers. Written by the Getting Smart staff, we'd like to share our own version of the 12 Days of Christmas with all of you.
Personalized Learning
Christmas Carol: Blended Learning Opportunities
This year, Susan Lucille Davis shook things up a bit and explored Dickens’s story by blending a number of venues, both online and face-to-face, that we use to learn today: performance, reading and discussion, interactive games, research, and experience.
EdTech
Door #24 – New Math App for Blended Classrooms
This Math App provides teachers and parents with a tool to help kids build an understanding of the base ten number system, knowledge of number relationships, and a deeper understanding of mathematical operation and the relations between them.
Personalized Learning
Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day, Released!
Published today, Deeper Learning for Every Student Every Day is dedicated to dispelling the myths around Deeper Learning and proving that it can happen in any school, with all students, and every teacher.