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SmartTech Roundup
How’s it hanging? Google hosted its first EduOnAir Conference on Blended Learning using Google Hangout. Hangout OnAir allows users to broadcast, record and share its sessions. This is a great resource for educators teaching online courses or conducting professional development sessions.
EdTech
Infographic: The Potential of Edu Data
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation recently released an infographic on the Ed-Fi Tool Suite, a universal educational data standard and tool suite, showcasing its significant gains in momentum and use in eight K-12 state education agencies, districts and vendors and the potential of educational data.
EdTech
The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in London
The Education Foundation, the United Kingdom's education think tank launched in November 2011, and partners today launched Learning Lab, a new edtech and innovation space in the heart of London.
Personalized Learning
Hewlett Foundation Announces Winners of Essay Scoring Technology Competition
A British particle physicist and sports enthusiast, a data analyst for the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., and a graduate student from Germany won the $60,000 first prize in a competition to design innovative software to help teachers and school systems assess their students’ writing. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation sponsored the contest and awarded $100,000 to the top three research teams – none of whom have a background in education.
Personalized Learning
PE Programs Move from Competition to Inclusion With a SPARK of Technology
Wow – physical education (PE) has changed! Do you remember waiting in a long line hoping to be one of the lucky few chosen by a team captain? Or painfully enduring names being called until you were finally chosen as one of the last participants?
Personalized Learning
Innosight Institute Classifies K-12 Blended Learning In New Report
Innosight Institute released "Classifying K-12 Blended Learning," a report written by Heather Stake and Michael B. Horn defining blended learning and providing context for the models and methods in which it's used in the classroom.
Personalized Learning
Improve School Safety Training With Online Flexibility
In many of today’s schools, staff safety training and management of the process is handled with in-service workshops and pen and paper sign-offs. Besides the frustration associated with manually keeping track of all those who attended, it also requires that administrators hold follow-up sessions to ensure everyone who did not attend receives training.
Personalized Learning
5 Characteristics Connecting Montessori Ed & the Personalized Learning Movement
At first glance, the intersections between Montessori education and high-quality digital learning are not immediately apparent. To those of us with some knowledge about Montessori methods—based on formal training, general awareness or, as in my case, the observations of a parent whose children attend a Montessori school—its natural materials and deep traditions seem to stand in opposition to the vision of a futuristic, technology-rich digital or blended learning environment.
Personalized Learning
How P2PU is Reshaping Professional Learning for K-12 Teachers
Professional learning for K-12 teachers is an exciting space with great demand and high payoff for successful models. However, much of the professional development currently done for in-service teachers reflects old, industrial-era models of learning: rows of desks, teachers standing front and center, seat time, and lecture. Current models of granting credit to teachers are similarly antiquated and are rarely designed to prompt innovation in the classroom.
Personalized Learning
Gamification: Accelerating Learning For Business & Education
Anyone who has children or who has been around them for a while knows that kids, as well as young adults, are attracted to video games like flies are attracted to light. And while older adults may think the kids are being lazy or using their time idly when they’re connected to their Wii or Xbox using a Kinect, in reality the kids are paving the way for business training and education.