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Cookeville High School Builds Rigor Online with Compass Learning
The district purchased CompassLearning Odyssey in July 2012 to use across all schools and grades. Since implementation, nearly 9,000 of its approximately 10,000 students have completed more than 480,000 Odyssey activities.
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.
Deeper Project Based Learning
High Tech High, Casco, DSST, Odyssey and other schools we’ve studied suggest help us conclude with 4 main lessons that help avoid low-level activities and promote deeper learning projects.
EdTech 10: Feel The Heat
Teachers and tech-ers must be feeling inspired by July, because edtech news is hot, hot, hot this week! Lather up in SPF 50 and grab your shades - our top 10 shows the future of education is bright!
Transforming Special Education with iPads in LAUSD
Working with 20 students at various levels of ability, with significant learning disabilities and multiple handicaps, it is extremely difficult to meet all their varying needs with textbooks, paper and writing utensils
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.”
EdTech 10: Better Blends, More Online Opportunity
Bringing in the dough this week was Coursera, who raised $43 million from Learn Capital, GSV, Laureate, and IFC. “Coursera’s next frontiers involve better pedagogy and greater globalization.
Dell Powers Majority of U.S. Classrooms
With a broad array of access devices, servers, and support services, Dell quietly supports about six out of every ten U.S. classrooms.
Giving Students a Voice
Zak Malamed is convinced that the “idea of student voice, as individual and organizational level, needs to be promoted” and as a student himself, he is working to make it happen.
Expeditionary Learning Launches Its First NYC Charter
A visit to Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School in Brooklyn sheds light on deeper learning. Habits of Heart & Mind guide expeditions which culminate in Presentations of Learning.