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Navigator Schools: Blended Delivery, Engaging Classroom, High Performance
The garlic capital is home of the top scoring new elementary school in California--Gilroy Prep. Veteran educators James Dent and Sharon Waller opened the charter school two years ago after visiting all the best schools and “reverse engineering from site visits.”
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Connecting Smart Cities
For several months now, Tom Vander Ark has been issuing rich installments in his Smart Cities series, building a detailed map of where innovations in learning are happening. Here, we profile an organization connecting Smart Cities—the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE-Trust)—and its work helping city-based organizations support the emergence of high-quality blended learning.
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Making the Campus Cloud Matter to Your Users
IT professionals have been spending more and more time designing an information architecture for their schools. What goes in the cloud? What must stay on campus to make it effective for users?
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Finding the Right Level: Adaptivity in Learning Games
One of the things that keeps game players engaged is the presentation of exactly the right level of challenge at exactly the right time. Keeping the game play at a level that is challenging but not overwhelming appears to be key to engaging players.
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Three Reasons For High Schoolers to Use Peer-Reviewed Journals in Research
If you’ve taught students to improve their researching and writing skills - or even graded your share of research papers - you’ve probably noticed that students have the whole process down to a system: Google a few articles or grab them from the library, look for keywords related to their topics, then write about a viewpoint or two. In college and graduate school, though, expectations will get higher as classes get more advanced.
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Education Entrepreneurship and Reflections on LearnLaunch
Anthony Kim, Education Elements, keynoted the inaugural LearnLaunch event in Boston last week. He discussed blended learning and challenged edtech companies to show growth similar to other sectors.
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Taking the Classroom Out of Physics With Mobile Devices
Despite the ever-growing penetration of mobile devices and wider acceptance of BYOD, I feel that a lot of the potential of mobile learning is being underexploited. Many of the solutions are focused on wrapping up content and disseminating it to students. As important this is, we should demand more.
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3 Simple Tools to Support the CCSS Academic Vocabulary Shift
The Common Core identifies six instructional shifts needed to effectively implement the standards in ELA/Literacy. Shift 6 suggests an instructional change in the teaching of Academic Vocabulary. While there are many specific vocabulary standards in the K-12 Language strand, it's helpful and important to look at Academic Vocabulary from the big picture view known as Shift 6.
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MangaHigh: UK vs US in Middle Math Challenge
It’s been 240 years since the Tea Party. To commemorate, UK teachers have throw down a challenge to US teachers on Mangahigh.com. They have invited your school to take part in this free middle grade math competition.
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It’s Time to Separate Facilities From Operations
The way we build, manage and maintain public school buildings is inefficient and exacerbates some of the biggest challenge in public education. With the recent growth of the public charter school sector, the rise of tech-infused learning models, and the migration of student populations across options and geographies, it's time for us to rethink the relationship between learning programs and public facilities. It's time to decouple the delivery and the ownership of school buildings.