Entrepreneurship
EdTech
Tangible Research is a Business Education
Guest blogger Hawwa Mohammad, who works with the Newark Center for Collaborative Change, explains how universities are commercializing research by linking professorial ideas with real business. The point is, pairing research and learning with business is a good idea, because universities are the nexus for community involvement.
Personalized Learning
The New Center of EdReform Gravity
DFER, EEP, and New Schools are the new center of edreform gravity
EdTech
David Wiley's TEDX Talk
I hope I can meet David Wiley in Chicago this week. If anyone sees him, point him out to me.
EdTech
Hacking Tools, Please
Those quick and nimble angel investors and VC firms -- are they really that quick and nimble? Or is the new metaphor for investing in education a stone mason, pounding away at a slab of granite?
EdTech
Have Platform, Will Grow
Less important than the news that a Japanese gaming company has set up a fund for social gaming ventures is the news that the companies they will invest in will go on a platform.
EdTech
Digital Ed Is People
The first lessons in web 2.0 are you must teach people and treat people with respect. The whole process of engagement is a learning process. Why can't we make education like that now?
Personalized Learning
CapEx Thinking
Private capital plays an important role in public education, because most superintendents can't raise money to invest in productivity improvement.
EdTech
Surgical Teaching
By changing the paradigm for studying laptop schemes, we could accelerate surgical teaching.
EdTech
A Collaborator Gets His Wings
Every time someone buys a computer in suburban America, a consumer becomes a producer, social learning grows, and we still haven't paid enough attention to urban youth.
EdTech
If You Can't Create, It Ain't Worth It
Something needs to shift in how we pay attention to learners, if there is going to be any development in useful education technology devices or methods.