EdTech
Smart List: Connecting & Supporting Entrepreneurs
Throughout October, we've been highlighting people, organizations and companies that we appreciate doing innovative work for our 3rd Annual Smart Lists. Today we’re recognizing organizations connecting and supporting entrepreneurs.
Education Innovation: In US & Across the Globe
Innovations in learning are transforming education for children around the world, both in formal and informal learning environments.
Grant-Beacon Middle School Builds Character, Extends and Blends Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark. Four years ago Principal Alex Magaña describes a clear mission: high achievement and growth for all students, providing a college preparatory program of study that sets high expectations and requires critical thinking and problem solving skills. Today, you see three core strategies are helping them achieve that goal: blended learning, extended learning opportunities, and charter development.
Teaching Kids to Navigate Social Media? It’s a Matter of Principle
By: Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff. Practical strategies and resources to help parents navigate social media decisions, and the role of principles in the journey to do what's right online.
Smart Parents use Games & Sims to Provoke Powerful Learning
Kae Novak runs the ISTE Games and Simulations. Tom recently joined her and a great panel for a Google Hangout. Read the quick recap of the conversation and the video in it's entirety.
Where the OECD EdTech Report Missed the Mark
A recent OECD report resulted in kneejerk headlines like, “don't bother buying computers for schools.” This OECD report reflects the fact that technology has been layered on top of the ineffective and inequitable education system we have.
EdTech 10: Coming Together to Focus on What Works
Startups, organizations, teachers and students are huddling over new tools, partnerships, and reports that are moving the needle and creating real progress on what’s working to support next-gen learning.
EdTech 10: When Working Together Works
This week's EdTech news revolved around working together to get things done with new leadership opportunities, support for strategies and models, insights into trends and perspectives, and advances in platform integration,
The World’s Largest Lesson: 17 Goals to Change the World
The Global Goals campaign and UNICEF launch the World's Largest Lesson with 17 goals to change the world by 2030.
Technology Will Save Us is Powering MakerEd in UK
BBC is ensuring that every 12 year old in the UK will have a DIY Kit in their hands this fall and is working with Technology Will Save Us to make it happen. The kit that will be distributed - and the strategy to inspire - was an updated homage to the original BBC Micro, an early programmable home PC that introduced many people in the UK to computers for the first time.