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Edmodo: A free, secure social networking site for schools

Tom Vander Ark

Dec 17, 2010

Edmodo is the largest and fastest growing social learning platform--it's safe, secure, and free.

EdTech

Learning about Teaching

Getting Smart Staff

Dec 16, 2010

The initial results of the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching are important but not all that surprising.

Personalized Learning

Value-Added Data Adds Value

Tom Vander Ark

Dec 15, 2010

Value-added data should be added to teacher evaluations. Then we should make the whole system smarter with personal digital learning.

EdTech

Gov Christie: Failure is Not an Option

Getting Smart Staff

Nov 30, 2010

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave a powerful education speech at Excellence in Action in DC tonight.

EdTech

From Design to K12 Equity

Getting Smart Staff

Nov 29, 2010

Why is a designer from San Francisco teaching in North Carolina's poorest county?

Personalized Learning

Making College/Career Ready Real

Tom Vander Ark

Nov 28, 2010

Grades are are a relic of the sorting-machine age-cohort model. Standards-based feedback is a small but critical step toward a personalized competency-based system that makes standards real on a daily basis.

Personalized Learning

Best of Fall

Tom Vander Ark

Nov 25, 2010

Here's a dozen blog posts I enjoyed working on this fall; take a look if you missed them the first time around. Happy Thanksgiving.

EdTech

Certification Promotes Quality, Colleges Play a Role

Tom Vander Ark

Nov 25, 2010

Lisa Dawley, Boise State, responded to an October 6 story about states adding certification for online learning and a hallway chat at iNACOL’s VSS2010. She makes a case below for certification and school of ed training. The Digital Learning Council is likely to recommend path-speicific performance-based certification after demonstrated…

Personalized Learning

Duncan’s Most Important Speech

Tom Vander Ark

Nov 20, 2010

Duncan attacks the factory model, seniority, LIFO and calls for transformational change and edtech as force multiplier

Personalized Learning

The Pivot to Digital Learning: 40 Predictions

Tom Vander Ark

Nov 19, 2010

We're living through a historic shift from batch print education to personal digital learning. Here's how it will play out over the next 1, 5, and 10 years.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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