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Hall Davidson at TASA 2013: Tablet Device as Backpack
I had never heard Hall Davidson speak until I saw him at the Midwinter meeting of the Texas Association of Schools Administrators. If you have not heard his presentation, you are in for a treat: enthusiasm, energy, state-of-the-art information. As we say around here in Texas, it was the whole enchilada.
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Ministers Learn About Improvement at Scale
An Education Leaders Briefing concluded the World Education Forum in London this week. Greg Butler from Microsoft (who helped my district go 1:1 in 1996) moderated the session that I participated in with Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, and Microsoft education lead Anthony Salcito.
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Infographic: Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing
The Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing infographic complements our recently released paper, “The Shift From Cohorts to Competency”. t
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Digital Learning Now! Releases Competency Education Paper
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released “The Shift From Cohorts to Competency,” the fourth DLN Smart Series white paper in collaboration with Getting Smart®, that explores the shift from seat time to demonstrated mastery.
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What Role Does Social Media Have in Education?
Recently, Compass Learning interviewed about 30 educators, including teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of curriculum and learning, and consultants, at the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference held in Dallas. We wanted to know what role—if any—social media (Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc.) plays in the classroom, in the school, or in the district. The answers were interesting.
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Insider Views, Outsider Comments
Whiteboard Advisors regularly surveys policy makers. The following are highlights of its latest report and a little color commentary.
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5 Reasons Columbus Should Make the Shift to Digital Learning
On Thursday, the Columbus Education Commission will consider five ways in which technology can boost urban learning opportunities.
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How Active, Digital Learning Fosters Business Skills in Students
The array of social technologies open a wide swath of possibilities for active learning, particularly in the online and blended teaching space.
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A School’s Digital Report Card
It can certainly be frustrating to a parent whose child does not have access to digital learning, but kids across the street (in a different school district) do. The difference? The principal.
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Smart Cities: Baltimore’s Digital Harbor
Last Thursday night a closed recreation center became a Tech Center in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood. When Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the city was closing 25 of the 55 rec centers , Andrew Coy (@AndrewCoy) a teacher at Digital Harbor High School and Shelly Blake-Plock (@BlakePlock) faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University School of Education sought an alternative to the center closing. One of the rec centers was a block from Digital Harbor High School where Andrew was developing an after-school program in web design.