Digital Learning Now
Leadership
Happy Holidays From the Getting Smart Team
We've appreciated the conversations and dialogue we've had with all of you over the course of the last year. We're looking forward to continued discussions in 2013. From the Getting Smart Team, Happy Holidays!
Personalized Learning
10 Steps to Build Support for Blended Learning
To build support for a blended learning initiative, start by inventorying hardware and widely used apps, testing broadband, and identifying blended learning programs and strategies. Consider the following ten strategies over the course of six months to begin to lay the groundwork for development and adoption of blended learning models.
Personalized Learning
Infographic: The Countdown to Next-Gen Assessments
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released “Getting Ready for Online Assessments,” the third interactive paper in the DLN Smart Series, which provides recommendations for states and districts to prepare for new, online assessments in the wake of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation in the 2014-15 school year. Here is an infographic that describes the shift to the online assessments over the course of the next 21 months.
Ed Policy
Digital Learning Now! Offers Advice to States & Districts Preparing for Online Assessment
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released “Getting Ready For Online Assessments,” the third interactive paper in the DLN Smart Series, to plan a pathway of administering new, online assessments in the wake of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation in the 2014-15 school year.
EdTech
Data, Evidence and Digital Learning
Have you noticed lately that MOOCs are all over the news? It’s hard to imagine that just a year ago, most people had never heard of Massive Open Online Courses—courses that hundreds of thousands of people all over the world take online, free of charge and that are rapidly growing in number.
Personalized Learning
Extreme Learning and the University Professor
In part 2 of our sereis on Dr. Curtis Bonk’s extreme learning research, we look at ways to integrate the best practices of fieldwork into your curriculum.
EdTech
What’s Next For Utah?
Parents for Choice in Education, in partnership with Digital Learning Now, hosted Utah's 1st Annual Digital Learning Summit on October 9, 2012 at Salt Lake District's Innovation High. Watch the closing discussion about "What's Next For Utah" with Robyn Bagley, John Bailey and Tom Vander Ark
EdTech
SMARTtech Top 10: Nearing the New Year
Can you believe it's December? Neither can we. We're on the count down to the New Year and the news is still alive and kicking with innovation. The market is on full speed ahead to 2013 with some exciting possibilities in education.
EdTech
Share Student Voices & Gather Audiences With 10+ Tech Tools
Once the essays were written, students used my shared Symbaloo webmix, “Creative Gallery,” to locate an appropriate technology tool to showcase their essays. Although the majority chose Blogger, students also used Wix, Weebly, Storybird, Google Docs, Windows Movie Maker Live and YouTube to share their viewpoints. Furthermore, students were encouraged to suggest any mode of sharing their essays, whether it be an unknown app, website, or some overlooked traditional method. Take a look at my "Creative Gallery" webmix below.
Personalized Learning
Extreme Learning and the University Professor, Part 1
In 1945, as the world was emerging from war, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, called for scientists to rally around a new, post-war cause: make our collective knowledge open to the masses.