Career & Technical Ed
future of learning
Personalized Learning
How a Prof Used 1 Tech Tool to Build 3 Co-Learning Spaces
Student presentations, like many rituals of teaching and learning, have changed very little over the years. But when technology transformed the way artists, entrepreneurs, and…well, anyone…presented their work and ideas, it was only a matter of time until student presentations got a similar makeover.
Personalized Learning
SMARTtech Roundup: Blended Learning, Common Core & STEM
Check out who’s blending. Our friend Marina Ballantyne Walne published a summary of blended models and school profiles—a mix of familiar and new comers. It’s worth a look.
EdTech
DIY: Sweat Equity Brand Building
It has never been easier and cheaper to build brand equity--a favorable impression with an audience that matters to you. Sure, it's noisy out there, but with a little sweat equity you can build support for your school, project, or product.
EdTech
Cast Your Vote For Our SXSWedu Panels
Getting Smart hopes to participate in SXSWedu this year with one of its five panel ideas that cover education innovation, investment in edtech, digital learning initiatives, open educational resources (OER), games in learning, math learning, Big Data, and more. SXSW invites its community to cast votes on which panels they'd like to see in March 2013.
Personalized Learning
Vittra International: Personalized Swedish Network on a Mission
Vittra International is a network of high tech elementary schools in Sweden. Vitta has 12 schools were every student has an Apple laptop. Architecturally and academically it's clear that there is an underlying design--a clear intellectual mission that makes these schools a great place to learn and work. Vittra expresses the design principles through six promises.
Personalized Learning
Blended Learning: Iterating Toward Better Learning At Scale
"Instead of 'fixing' K-12, let's build something better," said Alex Hernandez fromCharter Growth Fund (@ThinkSchools) who opened a conversation among experts in the future of learning. "Blended learning is not about technology, it's about personalizing learning for students. We can give students the instruction they need, when they need it."
Personalized Learning
SMARTtech Roundup: Digital Developments and More
The need for speed. The Education Super Highway National School Speed Test is now underway. The group aims to Ensure that every K-12 school in America has 100MB+ of broadband infrastructure, starting with this inventory. Click here to check your school’s speed.
Leadership
Microsoft Launches Global Initiatives to Create Opportunities for 300M Youth
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new global initiative,Microsoft YouthSpark, that aims to create opportunities for 300 million youth in more than 100 countries during the next three years. This companywide initiative includes citizenship and other company programs — both new and enhanced — that empower youth to imagine and realize their full potential by connecting them with greater opportunities for education, employment and entrepreneurship.
Personalized Learning
25 Trends Disrupting Education Right Now
Disruption doesn’t sound like a pretty word, but in the long run, it can be a beautiful thing. Disruption is about shifting power. Eroding patterns. Breaking the system. In education, this can come from the most unlikely of sources.
EdTech
DIY: Hiring Coders & Developers
"Coders are tough to find since nearly every industry is looking for them and they are also able to start their own company," said Alan Louie, the founder of the edtech incubator ImagineK12. He continued, "There's no magic bullet to finding them. It's old-fashioned networking based on sharing your exciting idea that will change the world through education. Current employees, meet-ups, startup-weekends, friends and family, ex-coworkers, industry friends are all people to tap."