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International Studies: Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Systems
Will taking online courses replace studying abroad for students around the world? In this article Kirsten Winkler explores the internationalization of higher education.
Personalized Learning
Movie Review: Why are America’s Students Failing at Math?
It is not a difficult question to answer, a lot of students hate math. I know “hate” is a strong word, but when some children are asked about math, they start to sweat, shut down, and avoid math at all costs, due to negative experiences in the past.
Leadership
Extending Museum Learning with ARIS
A dozen museum educators stand nervously and watch a class of elementary school kids pour into the Minnesota History Center, iPods in hand.
Personalized Learning
Blended STEM: Project Lead The Way
Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a leading provider of STEM curriculum for U.S. secondary schools. PLTW is launching an elementary program, a computer science strand, and improving its blended STEM offering with updates to the online and hands-on learning experience.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Top 15 Announcements
The Getting Smart Team spent the week in Arizona connecting with familiar edtech friends and making new ones at the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit. We were excited by the growing interest in moving beyond point solutions to create more integrated and cohesive personalized experiences for students. There were also loads of announcements this week, in the desert and elsewhere. In fact, there were so many that we’re breaking our normal “EdTech 10” format to bring you instead the week’s Top Announcements - all 15 of them.
EdTech
Fun in the Sun: Education Innovation Summit 2013
It’s been a great week at Education Innovation Summit (#EISummit). Our team enjoyed thoughtful breakout sessions, nice receptions and hallways conversations. For those traveling from colder climates the Arizona sun seemed to set a gleeful tone for the conference.
Ed Policy
DLN Releases Funding Student, Options, and Achievements Paper
“Today’s finance system lacks the flexibility needed to support the flood of educational innovation” said Tom Vander Ark. “Reorienting the system around students will extend equitable student access to high-quality options that have the potential to personalize and customize learning.”
EdTech
ASU Opening: Is America a Submerging Economy?
Investor Robert Grady moderated the opening panel at the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Conference in Scottsdale with perennial presenter Chris Whittle, CEO of the pricey global school network Avenues, and Jon Schnur, America Achieves. They agreed that patterns of excellence have emerged from world class models domestically and internationally: high expectations, relentless focus on good teaching, a spirit of continuous improvement, and attention to granular details matter. It’s clear that we have world beating schools in the U.S--we just need more of them.
Personalized Learning
Aerospace Scholars Offers Blended STEM Experience
While demand for engineers in the workplace is growing, student interest in the STEM field is declining. In particular, students who enter high school interested in engineering, tend to become disengaged in the field as they approach graduation. An educational program located in Washington State hopes to stop that trend by engaging students in the STEM field in new and interesting ways. The Washington Aerospace Scholars Program offers an innovative approach to STEM education by combining online and applied hands on learning.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Innovation on the Brain
Team Getting Smart has “ innovation on the brain” this week (even more than usual) as we gear up for next week’s ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit (#EIsummit). The Getting Smart crew will be there learning, speaking, and blogging about eduinnovation.