future of learning
Who Will Build the iPhone for Edu?
Tom Vander Ark heads to Arizona State University to moderate a panel on mobile technology in education
RTTT Phase Two Slog
We're not seeing a rush of significant new thinking in the effort to make up for Race to the Top Phase One shortfalls. What's next?
Interview: Mike Magee, CEO, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies
We interview Mike Magee, CEO of Rhode Island's Mayoral Academies, a charter school foundation that puts school management in the hands of city mayors.
ACTE Creates Outline for "Career Ready"
The Association for Career and Technical Education released a paper today that delineates their ideas on what students need to be career ready.
More Widgets, Fewer #2 Pencils
With last week's launch of the $350m federal grant program last week, National Journal is hosting a conversation about student assessment. Here's my contribution.
Making Data Matter
Interesting day at the EdWeek Leader’s Forum on Making Data Matter. Dan Katzir, Broad, did a great job kicking off the event with lessons learned over 10 years. Amiee Guidera did a great job outlining the Data Quality Campaign agenda. It was disappointing only 6% of the participants responded…
Book of Work
Had an encouraging conversation at College Board this morning about the potential for a new AP assessment system that would allow several testing times each year (eventually many times or anytime) and reduced reliance on the end of course assessment but considering a ‘book of work’ during the course taking…
Read Friedman on Start Ups
Please read Tom Friedman’s post on start ups. Here’s the most important sentences: Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And where do start-ups come from? They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. How do we get more of those? There are only two…
Step Function Improvement
As the learning revolution matures, it is likely to be turbocharged by lessons about the neuropsychology of learning and motivation. I don’t think we know much about this and don’t use what we know very effectively, but we are likely to learn far more than we know in the coming decade.
The 3×5 Learning Revolution
Twenty years after technology began transforming every other sector, there is finally enough movement on a sufficient number of fronts—15 to be precise—that, despite resilience, everything will change. New and better learning options are inevitable, but progress will be uneven by state/country and leadership dependent. The 5 Drivers.