digital learning
Personalized Learning
Formative Assessment: Progress, Barriers and Opportunity
The progress made, current barriers and opportunities that face formative assessment with the ongoing shift to digital learning and increasing access new technologies and data.
Personalized Learning
Seeing What is Possible Makes Possibilities Exciting
An interview of former Napa Valley Unified School District Administrator, Dr. Laura Ryan, on why her school district chose Scholastic's READ 180/System 44 to help their struggling readers achieve.
Personalized Learning
Building Stamina to Open a World of Possible
Middle School READ 180 Teacher shares how she motivates her students to Open a World of Possible in reading by telling her story of how she struggled to build stamina to finish a book.
Personalized Learning
Infographic: Higher Ed’s New Normal
Infographic demostrates just how much has changed in higher ed since the days of Thriller, big hair, and mix tapes.
EdTech
Top 10 Reasons to Use Big History Project This School Year
Humans interested in Humanity, proceed. Middle school and high school teachers interested in a cool integrated block, read on. High school principals interested in boosting engagement, critical thinking, and writing across the curriculum—we have a super block for you. 1. What is Big History? Go to Big History Project’s website. To watch their 2 minute video introducing Big History, you simply click the play button on the Waffle House image (intrigued? You should be). You don’t have to sign up to watch it and learn more, but you will want to. And signing up is free. Big History Project is run by a non-profit organization (i.e. they are not out to sell anything to anyone), and it’s OPEN, FREE, and ONLINE. Enough said.
Personalized Learning
The Digital Citizenship Primer EVERY Student Needs: Become an iMature Student
Become an iMature Student is an excellent book full of much needed information and recommend for Technology Directors, Technology Specialists and Teachers as a quick reference guide to what students need to know to be successful in todays digital age.
Personalized Learning
Virtual Learning Part of the School Day at Fulton Schools
Atlanta's Fulton County Schools are taking virtual learning by storm by offering it as an option for daily work in their virtual labs at each of their fifteen high schools. Learn how they do it and what impact it has seen.
Leadership
Leading the Shift to Digital: School, System & City
This shift to personal digital learning is inevitable; nearly all of our kids already live in the personal digital future. Combining organizational design, technology integration, and large-scale change management is challenging and complex, but it can be done.
EdTech
Find Out What Teachers Actually Use—and Why
We're at a time when digital tools and open resources are exploding and less traditional textbooks are being used. It's vital that districts are aware of the best and most used resources in their schools.
Personalized Learning
i-Ready Named Winner of Readers’ Choice Awards
Adaptive instruction software named winner of eSchool News' 2014-2015 Readers' Choice Awards.