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Ed Policy
Smart List: 40 Advocacy Orgs Making a Difference
Today we are recognizing 40 great policy and advocacy organizations. These groups put students first, set the path, and lead the conversation.
Personalized Learning
Navigating the swamp with Michael Fullan
The swamp may be muddy, but it was clear during our conversation that Fullan is optimistic about the future of education. He explains, with the digital innovation explosion and no real criteria to size it all up, the swamp can be scary, but it’s populated by a lot of life.
EdTech
3 Ways to Encourage Higher Order Thinking with Technology
Here are three ways for teachers to prepare to design learning experiences that encourage higher order thinking through the use of technology as a tool for learning.
EdTech
PresenceLearning Provides Online Occupational and Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students, today announced the availability of its occupational and speech-language therapy services to parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Summer Off? No way!
Teachers this summer are soaking up more than sunshine! We’ve noticed that our recent posts with teaching resources are making their way around the internet faster than a barefoot kid running across hot pavement!
EdTech
“School of Thought” Video Series Launched
"The School of Thought videos serve as our end goal, one from which we start with and build our theory of change model, use a back mapping process to align the research we are conducting today to that future vision, and determine investigative projects and collaborations over time to move us from where we are today to that end goal."
Personalized Learning
10 Signs From NGLC Winners
Next Generation Learning Challenges award applications for “new, personalized, blended, mastery-based school capable of generating dramatically higher outcomes for students.”
Personalized Learning
NGLC Makes 8 Launch and 30 Planning Grants for Next-Gen High Schools
Next Generation Learning Challenges announced another round of grants today: 8 pre-opening grants of $450k and 30 planning grants of $100k.
Uncategorized
Innovation Intermission
This month, I’ve been exploring alternate models of access to informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) learning. This week, I’m taking a detour – an innovation intermission at a workshop with Nina Simon at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
EdTech
10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer
These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!