blended learning
EdTech
SMARTtech Roundup: Blends, Tabs, STEM, Common Core & More
Blended Schools & Tools Cool kit and course. BlendKit2012 has been announced – an open, online course focused on blended learning – from September 24 to October 29.The Blended Learning Toolkit was prepared by the UCF and the AASCU with funding from the NGLC. The Good,…
Personalized Learning
Grad Nation’s Blends Boosts Grad Rates & Achievement
Grad Nation is a comprehensive effort to boost the nation's graduation rate from about 75 percent to 90 percent by 2020. Launched in May 2010, Grad Nation is a project of America's Promise. There are about 60 supporting sponsors and donors, one of them is Apex Learning, a digital high school curriculum provider based in Seattle.
Personalized Learning
Digital Learning Provides Customization, Motivation & Equalization
The emerging benefits of digital learning include: customized learning allows students to vary rate, time, location, and (increasingly) path--that means more learning per hour; engaging content and the motivation of instant feedback attack boredom and extend learning; and high access environments and take home tech for every student that will narrow the digital divide and extend access to quality teachers and content.
Leadership
Good Work: Impact Takes Vision, Values, and Good Timing
Making a difference takes a compelling vision, productive values, and good timing.
Ed Policy
Principles for Model Online & Blended Learning Legislation
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) released a Statement of Principles for Model Legislation in States. The principles are fully aligned with Digital Learning Now!, a framework for state policy released in 2010. The principles are a useful guide not only for state policy…
Innov8
SMARTtech Roundup: From Blended Learning to Big Data
Blended Schools & Tools Blended Schools Sprouting. Vail Blended Learning is a new blended middle school in Arizona that uses laptops as its main learning tool using online content developed by K12 Inc., e2020, and VBL Curriculum and Instruction. Students have a flexible daily schedule and move through…
EdTech
Blended Case Study: Leadership Public Schools
Leadership Public Schools (LPS) is a network of four small high-poverty high schools in Richmond, Oakland, Hayward, and San Jose, California. These locations (and nearby Summit Prep and Downtown College Prep) are the best example of great high schools combining the historic benefits of small rigorous and supportive environments with the potential of incorporating personal digital learning.
EdTech
Dream Lake Students Knighted as Math Learners
Patty Weisbach, Assistant Principal at Dream Lake Elementary, says she has countless stories about the ways that ST Math’s JiJi the penguin, created by MIND Research Institute, created a culture of success around math at her school. Yet, one story in particular stands out.
EdTech
60+ Top Articles On Blended Learning
Blended learning buzzed at conferences this year and across the education market. iNACOL, the leader in the blended learning space, created a new definition for the term. We've seen it in classrooms, heard it from teachers, and talked about it at Getting Smart. Featured in the articles below, Getting Smart highlights the new ideas and innovations surrounding blended learning.
Personalized Learning
Resilience Monitoring Tool Could Be Good for Troops–and Students
DARPA is working on a psychological resilience monitoring tool for the troops. A similar monitoring tool for students could also be part of a comprehensive learner profile. DARPA participated in a a conference for i3 grant managers in Washington DC today.