Career & Technical Ed
EdTech
EdTech
After Fulfilling 30,000 Wishes, DigitalWish is Just Getting Started
Digital Wish is the edtech DonorsChoose. They have fulfilled more than 30,000 classroom wishes, mostly 1:1 classroom deployments with Dell netbooks.
Personalized Learning
Classroom Management: The Advantage of Structured Learning in Entrepreneurship
Here’s a novel concept for you: Entrepreneurs can learn from other entrepreneurs in an accredited capacity. When striking out on one’s own, it’s an established practice to seek the advice of those who’ve been there before and have made a success of it. So it makes perfect sense that business students, paying and working hard for an education, would greatly benefit from the insight that successful businesspeople can bestow.
Personalized Learning
What Edu Conferences Should Be On Your Agenda This Year?
Education conferences bring teachers, administrators, vendors, and investors together over innovative, controversial, and challenging questions and opportunities. The Getting Smart team travels to countless conferences and events each year to gather new insight into the education market.
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
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.
EdTech
Scale your Impact! Join the LearnZillion Dream Team
LearnZillion is recruiting 200 amazing teachers from around the country. Dream Team teachers will work with coaches to create lessons and materials built from the Common Core State Standards.
Leadership
Combating Cyberbullying in Schools, One Compliment at a Time
A lot of people walk around high school feeling all by themselves. They think that no one cares about them or that they are not one of the “cool kids.” Other kids walk around self-conscious, and under-appreciated, which leads them to the terrible world of cyber bullying. Here at West High Bros, we are doing everything that we possibly can to change that. It is a daunting task, but not one that is impossible. In fact, in our school the guidance counselors have reported that, since our group started, reports on bullying have gone down drastically.
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
Community Partnerships for the Digital Learning Revolution
I wasn’t surprised to learn that my hometown of Huntsville, Alabama –The Rocket City – has launched one of the largest school district transitions to digital learning in the nation. I recently visited Huntsville to learn from their experience, and my conversations there reinforced for me that community and family partnerships are essential for the success of digital learning. We have unprecedented investment in education technology, but we don’t yet have the corresponding developments in partnerships to help transitions to digital learning succeed.
Personalized Learning
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.