personalized learning
Personalized Learning
10 Resources to Promote Personalized Learning
A couple people called last week looking for advice for state and district leaders on personalized learning. Here's a recap of our conversations.
Leadership
New Paper: Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day
Last month we launched a preview of our new white paper, “Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day,” and today we’ve launched the full paper including all 20 of our Deeper Learning school profiles.
Personalized Learning
3 Way to Collect and Curate Genius Hour Content
There are many digital tools that are well-suited for collecting Genius Hour content. Choosing the right tool for the trick depends on your comfort level and personal learning style. Here's a peek at some push button tools designed for education.
Ed Policy
10 Sources of Inspiration for Next-Gen Learning Systems
Easier said than done, right? We could keep adding technology to current schools but that would just create a more expensive version of what we have.
EdTech
The Promise of EdTech: Customization, Motivation, & Equalization
The premise of Getting Smart is that new tools and new schools are changing old assumptions about what is possible--a trifecta of customization, motivation, and equalization. This is the second of three posts sharing quotes and comments from the book.
Ed Policy
Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World- 2013 Update
The first draft of Getting Smart was written three years ago and a lot has changed since then. Thirty months isn’t a lot of time…except when you’re in the middle of a revolution.
EdTech
12 Days of a Blended Christmas
Merry Christmas to our Getting Smart readers. Written by the Getting Smart staff, we'd like to share our own version of the 12 Days of Christmas with all of you.
Personalized Learning
Christmas Carol: Blended Learning Opportunities
This year, Susan Lucille Davis shook things up a bit and explored Dickens’s story by blending a number of venues, both online and face-to-face, that we use to learn today: performance, reading and discussion, interactive games, research, and experience.
Personalized Learning
Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day, Released!
Published today, Deeper Learning for Every Student Every Day is dedicated to dispelling the myths around Deeper Learning and proving that it can happen in any school, with all students, and every teacher.
EdTech
The Human Touch in the Age of Technology
Lessons from informal learning, online higher education, and corporate training are useful guideposts, but the U.S. K-12 shift is really a hunch about the importance of personalization and relationships. Prioritizing these two factors also suggests that its time to rethink how schools are structured and how students progress.