EdTech
7 Personalized Learning Highlights
Our team shares what edleaders and organizations dedicated to bringing personalized learning to classrooms around the country reminded us this week.
Teachers Model Growth Mindsets During Twitter Ed Chat
By: Heather Ngoma. Ensuring teachers are comfortable with tech tools and social media for professional purposes is a top priority for the Rutgers Alternate Route program. Last month Rutgers immersed a cohort of new teachers in a facilitated discussion on Growth Mindsets via Twitter, here's the results.
Lessons for Parents on Pink Versus Blue Tech
By: Alison Bryan. As part of our Smart Parents series, Dr. Bryant shares specific lessons learned around the ways gender plays in role in how we allow our children to use technology. Alison encourages us to be more fully aware of our tech preferences and gender biases.
EdTech 10: #ThankATeacher
This week we’re dedicating EdTech 10 to the outstanding Getting Smart Teacher Bloggers. THANK YOU for your commitment to innovations in learning.
EdTech 10: Launches, Reports and Transitions
It has been a big week for reports from Digital Learning Now and Pearson, launches from Knewton and IMS Global, and transitions involving leaders like Heather Staker, and companies like Scholastic.
Fishtree: Learner Profiles Drive Adaptive Learning
Dublin-based Fishtree combines content from any source and type mode, automatically aligns it to standards, and delivers it on any device in ways unique to each learner based on their learning preferences.
EdTech 10: Spring Has Sprung
Whether it’s educators finally recognizing opportunities to blend instruction or the launch of new game-based learning programs this week’s top EdTech news stories focused on springing toward new beginnings.
Inspired by Serial: Behind MCDPEL’s New Podcast for EdLeaders
By: Joe Mazza. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Joe Mazza brings us a behind-the-scenes story of the new and interactive scenario podcasts hitting the education leadership scene. Learn more about these podcasts, and about the ways social media is bringing leaders together to solve problems and learn from one another.
EdTech 10: Season’s In Full Swing
This week we recognized all-stars with the CODiEs and DILAs, dove deep into the future of assessment, and whether it was state policy, coding awareness, or new acquisitions, we arrived in spring with welcomed inspiration and hope for the year ahead.
Startup Students: A Look At How Teachers Can Invest In GenDIY
By: Eric Nentrup. What GenDIY needs is more supportive teachers who see themselves as business mentors and “angel investors” who may not be able to invest dollars, but can network and carve out time or space for students to work on these authentic projects now instead of later.