EdTech
Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are to Technology
K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology. Check out the fun and interesting facts from the report!
Five Things Students Want Their Teachers to Know about Online Learning
Kids love having the opportunity to learn online but it’s not merely the medium or the technology that students enjoy. At the recent iNacol Virtual Schools Symposium I listened to high school students who have experience learning this way as well as teachers who have experience with these students, share some advice for making this type of learning even better.
Ed Leaders Meet to Discuss Auburn’s Kindergarten iPad Program
Is your kindergartner using an iPad for reading and math? If not, it may not be long before he or she does. Education leaders and educators across the U.S. and globe meet in Auburn, Maine this week to discuss iPads for kindergarteners.
How Technology Can Improve Online Learning—and Learning in General
As president of a nonprofit, online university I am often asked about the quality of online learning. The answer is that the quality of education is largely independent of the mode of delivery. Other variables are far more important. There is high-quality online learning, and there is high-quality classroom learning, just as there is low-quality learning in both settings.
Smart Laws of Technology
John Smart is a futurist that works with some of my former colleagues from the X Prize Foundation. He’s the founder and president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF, Accelerating.org) a nonprofit community that seeks to help individuals better understand and manage continuous accelerating change. …
Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
A Getting Smart book that makes the case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer “personal digital learning” opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into “smart schools.”
The race to platform education
Across the full spectrum of education – primary, secondary, and higher – we are witnessing a race to develop platforms for content, learning, teaching, and evaluation. As liberating as the web is, tremendous centralization of control is occurring in numerous spaces: Google in search/advertising/Android, Amazon in books/cloud computing, Facebook in social networks, etc. I use a smaller range of tools today than I did five years ago. And the reason is simple: companies are in a landrush to create platforms that will tie together previously disconnected activities and tools.
2011 Excellence in Action: A Climate of Change
Education leaders, policymakers and lawmakers convened at the 2011 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform in San Francisco, Calif. this week to discuss personal digital learning, new innovations in education and the future transformation of education reform in the U.S.
Webinar: The Promise & Potential of Personal Digital Learning
Register for Tom Vander Ark's upcoming webinar "The Promise and Potential of Personal Digital Learning," a discussion on how schools are incorporating innovative technology to boost achievement and prepare students to thrive in the idea economy of the future, Friday, November 4, 2011 at 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST.
NewSchools Launches Ed Tech Market Map
NewSchools Venture Fund announced Wednesday, the release of an interactive representation of the geographic K-12 education-technology market to help investors, donors, and entrepreneurs better evaluate the landscape of edtech ventures.