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SMARTtech Roundup: Blended Learning, Common Core & STEM
Check out who’s blending. Our friend Marina Ballantyne Walne published a summary of blended models and school profiles—a mix of familiar and new comers. It’s worth a look.
EdTech
Google Ventures Backs Math Education Startup Desmos
Google Ventures joined investors Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Kinder Capital, and Elm Street Ventures today in funding more than $1 million for hiring, growth, and expansion of Desmos, Inc., an education technology company devoted to inspiring and engaging the next generation of math students.
EdTech
Math Software Unleashes the Power of Touch Devices to Improve Student Learning
This week, the education non-profit MIND Research Institute announced that its ST Math® instructional software is now available to students and teachers using tablets in the classroom. MIND Research has re-engineered its research-based software games to capitalize on the powerful learning capabilities of touch technology.
EdTech
Wiley & Knewton Partner to Offer Knewton Math Readiness Course
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a partnership with the learning technology company Knewton to offer the Knewton Math Readiness course throughout Australia and New Zealand.
EdTech
Arizona Schools Nearly Double Math Proficiency Growth With ST Math
Arizona schools nearly doubled math proficiency growth in 2011-12 using ST Math® -- a visually based, digital math program featuring the animated penguin named JiJi -- as a result of a recent partnership between education nonprofit MIND Research Institute and CiscoFoundation.
EdTech
Popular Penguin Continues to Provide Positive Math Results For Chicago Public Schools
The nonprofit MIND Research Institute today released an analysis of 2012 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) test results showing that students using ST Math® -- a visually based, digital math program featuring the animated penguin named JiJi -- made significant gains in math proficiency compared to similar schools.
Personalized Learning
Quick Guide to the Common Core: Key Common Core Expectations Explained – Mathematics
A lot of people (including some educators) have a lot of anxiety about math: How do we teach it? How do we learn it? How do we remember it all and use it correctly in real life? Math actually is a logical, accessible, and useful subject, but not enough people know or experience that.
Ed Policy
CA Leaders Converge at STEM Education Summit
With California business, civic and education leaders sounding alarm bells about the vital need to bolster the state’s lagging science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, the California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet) is convening business, government, education, nonprofit and philanthrophic luminaries to jump-start new STEM education initiatives at the 2012 California STEMSummit taking place October 15 and 16 at the Sheraton San Diego.
Personalized Learning
Rocketship Education Expands Successful ST Math Pilot In 2012-13
Rocketship Education, a leading non-profit public charter school system, will begin using the non-profit MIND Research Institute’s ST Math® program with all students in grades 2-5 across its seven schools in San Jose this fall.
Personalized Learning
NanoProfessor Increases Access to Front-Edge STEM Learning
Nanotechnology is the next boom in science. It explores material science (chemistry, physics, biology) at the scale of one billionth of a meter, such a low level that it’s invisible to the human eye. It includes everything from nanotechnology patents that are making L’Oreal face creams more penetrable to composites used on airplanes and aerospace that are making steal simultaneously stronger and lighter. It’s revolutionizing products across all industries by making them more efficient and durable than ever before.