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The Long Slide to Happiness?
Do national standards, without the advancements of high-tech assessment and teaching tools really help American students who are living in a global economy?
Chrome Ed
Chrome OS puts computing in the cloud, and now with a new remote desktop feature, it will be easier for netbook users to learn without sapping power.
Blended Learning Leverages Great Teachers
Opportunity at the Top, a great report from Public Impact, points out that it’s great teachers that close achievement gaps but that all current efforts will fall well short of ensuring that all US students see the benefits. The problem is that we’re trying to solve the wrong problem–there’s just…
Surgical Teaching
By changing the paradigm for studying laptop schemes, we could accelerate surgical teaching.
Kids Sharing Content
Remembering that it was difficult to find a future in the education he was receiving, Andy Russell started Launchpad Toys, a company that brings suites of content creating tools and platforms to kids to share worldwide.
You Wouldn't Inhibit Amazon, Why Education?
Former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise talks with edReformer about equity strategies and policy for education in anticipation of the SIIA August 4-6 Personalized Learning Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dan McGuire, Teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools
The solution is to expand the market, include more than just public education in the market of the 'service provider.' For-profit businesses need much the same kind of 'training' and support as teachers need, writes Dan McGuire, teacher.
Why Learning is Like the First 10,000 Feet after Takeoff
Seneca was a little off when he said if you are everywhere at once, you are nowhere. Digital learning changes that.
11 Important Blogs: Teachers & Technology
These are the ten education and technology blogs not to miss. I missed this meme because I was traveling, so I've added one more to make it eleven.
The Teacher Salary Project
Here's a brief clip that compares the start of the working day of Jamie, a 1st grade teacher, and Johnathan, a former teacher who now works as a real estate broker.