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EdTech
The Parthenon Group Publishes a Market Analysis of the “Next Generation Learning”
Parthenon announced today its release of "Next Generation Learning - Defining the Opportunity and Next Generation Learning - Scaling the Opportunity," an analysis in collaboration with Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Opportunity Equation and Stupski Foundation of the future learning landscape.
Uncategorized
Digital Media & Learning Competition Leverages Open Badges
A new game-based strategy called Digital Media and Learning Competition, hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla, plans to leverage badges and badge systems to help people learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge.
EdTech
White House Launches New “Digital Promise” Initiative
The White House and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the launch of "Digital Promise," a new national center created by Congress to advance technologies that can transform teaching and learning.
EdTech
Michael Horn Talks Disruptive Technology at WA Ed Innovation Forum
This week, Michael Horn, the co-founder and Executive Director of Innosight Institute, discussed the growth and development of disruptive technologies like online learning in education at the Washington Education Innovation Forum, hosted by Robin Lake, in Seattle, Wash.
EdTech
Tomorrow’s College: A Three-Part Series
American RadioWorks recently published a three-part series on Tomorrow's College, which takes a close look at the competitive 21st century economy and the growing need for higher education.
EdTech
Education Leaders Meet At the Wash. Education Innovation Forum
Policy leaders, foundations, district leaders, and local and national technology innovators plan to meet today at the Washington Education Innovation Forum, hosted by Robin lake and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), to explore how Washington can become a leader in education technology and innovation.
Leadership
Staff Picks: Testing, Flipped Classroom, Effective Teaching
This week's Staff Picks from Getting Smart takes a close look at the positive side of testing, the idea of the "flipped classroom," and the skills it takes to be an effective 21st century teacher.
Personalized Learning
ImagineK12 Ready to Demo Edupreneurs
ImagineK12 helps form and guide new companies focused on improving elementary and secondary education. I agree with their view of the opportunity: The infrastructure, hardware, software, and platforms are either available or being developed that will change the nature of how we teach our children in profound…
Personalized Learning
Confronting the 15,000-Hour Problem
But we must also contend with the 15,000-hour problem. Most Americans have attended schools for 13 years—and have watched teachers teach for more than 15,000 hours, usually in the company of 25 or 30 other students (40 or 50 in hard times). And while most Americans may want improved schools and better teaching, they do not want teaching and learning to look all that different from when they were in school themselves. The public’sfamiliarity with teaching reifies expectations. It may even breed contempt for the specialized skills that effective teachers and administrators need to develop—after all, an expert teacher can make the job look easy.
EdTech
18 Low Tech Ways to Help Kids & Educators Get Smart
I frequently write about new learning technologies, but there are lots of low tech learning innovations (i.e., produce better outcomes and potentially cost less). Here’s a lit of 18. I bet you can add two to the list to make it an even 20. At this point, some aren’t…