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EdTech 10: No Summertime Blues Here!
What’s not to love about summer time? Longer days. Fruity drinks. Backyard barbeques. Family vacations. That’s not all we love about this time of year. There’s lots of love about all the developments in this week’s top edtech news stories. Dive in!
Ed Policy
A District Guide to Online Learning
Online learning can expand student (and staff) options, grow enrollment, and power blended learning. It shares many critical success factors with traditional education, but different enough that you need to do your homework and develop a good plan. Following is a 10 point district/network guide to online learning.
Ed Policy
Guiding and Personalizing College & Career Readiness
With robust blended, distributed and scheduling processes, not only can more students walk across the graduation stage with a diploma, but also with strong academic preparation and a meaningful plan to go with it.
Post-Secondary
Infographic: College and Career Readiness GPS for Every Student
This infographic previews the next DLN Smart Series paper, “Core & More: Guiding and Personalizing College & Career Readiness” being released Thursday.
Ed Policy
How States Could Improve Online Options & Save Money
As full and part time online learning expands, "an emerging problem confronting state policymakers and education leaders is determining what states should pay for a specific course as part of an offering of supplemental courses."
EdTech
Report Released on Deeper Learning Performance Assessment Tools
Getting Smart, with support from the Deeper Learning Student Assessment Initiative (DLSAI), comprised of the Asia Society, ConnectEd, Envision Education, and New Tech Network, released “Assessing Deeper Learning: A Survey of Performance Assessment and Mastery Tracking Tools.”
Ed Policy
Hey Kansas: Don’t Cut Online Learning; Expand Course Choice
The Kansas legislature is looking for ways to save money. They are considering another 50% cut in the reimbursement rate for full time online learning which (at $5700/student) is already funded at about half of traditional K-12.
Ed Policy
EdTech 10: News From “The Space”
Whether you’re focused on policy or parenting, a teacher or a student, thinking kindergarten or college, the innovations in learning just keep coming--it’s getting easier to learn anything anywhere. Here are the top ten EdTech stories of the week.
EdTech
5 Reasons A Software Subscription May Beat a Content Purchase
There are 5 big differences--and potential advantages--to buying subscription-based software services compared to products, but state and district policy aren’t ready for the change.
Ed Policy
Almost Half The States Improved Digital Learning Policies in 2013
The nation’s digital learning health is improving. A new report card out today shows that 473 bills were introduced last year and 132 were enacted resulting in 22 states improving their grade on the 2013 Digital Learning Report Cards. The report card weighs state policies against the 10…