learner records
EdTech
Every Student Should Have A Digital Portfolio
Well-designed learner portfolios provide students an opportunity to chart their growth and tell their story. Here's eight tools that schools are using to promote deeper learning by encouraging students to build a collection of personal bests.
Leadership
Schools That Can Is 15 Cities Strong, Planning May Conference
Tom talks with Michael Druckman, Executive Chair and Stephanie Whited, Director of Communications & Marketing of Schools That Can, and Jennifer Husbands, Executive Director of Schools That Can Chicago to talk about Schools That Can's upcoming 10th Annual Forum in LA.
EdTech
It’s Time For Students To Own The Student Record: B2C LMS Companion
Secondary and postsecondary students should have cost free access to a personal companion to the school's learning management system, a business to consumer (B2C) LMS companion that is a private portable profile.
Leadership
Smart Cities Spur Innovations in Learning
It's time to get smart; innovative tools and schools are helping; most innovations come from smart ecosystems--and it all begins with a startup mindset. We're writing the Smart Cities book--and you can help.
Personalized Learning
Mooresville Adopts Gateway Projects in 4 Grades
The Mooresville Graded School District recently adopted requirements for four large scale multimedia projects in 3rd, 6th, 8th and 12th grade. Beginning next year, students would add products from these projects to their digital portfolio.
Personalized Learning
Transforming Your City: A Collaborative Approach
Kristoffer Haines, Rocketship Education, led a fascinating discussion of collaborative urban education transformation on the last day of #SXSWedu.
EdTech
Teacher to Teacher: 7 Steps for Integrating Technology
You’ve attend district and campus staff development. You understand some of what the district’s chosen device can do. It’s time to get started.
Personalized Learning
Embrace Change in the New Year with Genius Hour
In order to develop something truly remarkable, we must first engage in constructive play driven by passion. Helping students combine their interests with research, planning and goal setting is a noble role for an educator.
Personalized Learning
What is Performance Assessment?
Performance assessments are real-world scenarios that reflect the ambiguity of real-world challenges. They require higher-order thinking and problem solving. They are concluded with authentic performance. Projects are the most common performance assessment. The tools to support projects and track academic development are (slowly) getting better . Transparent evaluation criteria: the learning outcomes drive the creation of the task.
Ed Policy
New Orleans: A System Transformed
Kingsland, keynoted the Moodle conference in New Orleans (#MootUSLA13) yesterday. He recapped the devastation of Katrina and the ensuing opportunity to rethink the education system.