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Build a Flexible Frame for Teacher Eval
Teacher effectiveness should be based largely on performance but we need to build flexible systems and evaluation language to incorporate new data from better sources including content-embedded assessment.
Tech Re-Design in Maryland?
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley wants to spend US$1 billion on school construction. How about thinking smarter about what goes on inside the building? Technology for students is certainly part of re-design efforts. His competitor is geting there. Bob Ehrlich wants to ramp up the number of charter schools.
One-to-One Leadership and Learning at DSST
Our mobile phones are more powerful than desktops. Low income families are able to benefit from low-cost devices. There will soon be a one-to-one device in everyone's hands. So what will that mean education growth, school leadership and innovation in education? Bill Kurtz, CEO of DSST tells us.
50 Open Source Tools that Replace Ed Apps
You can use these 50 open source tools to build your education ecosystem. Here are a few from the list that I like, with some thoughts on how I think it would work.
3 Eras of Education
Collins & Halverson summarize the design elements of the emerging learningsystem
All Means All
Celebrating a superintendent that taught a community that 'all means all'
Mass Customization for Student Success
Roberta Selleck, Superintendent Adam's County School District 50, Colorado talks about her vision of personalized learning ahead of Innovate to Educate: A Symposium on [Re]Design for Personalized Learning, August 4-6, 2010 / Harvard Club / Boston, Massachusetts
A Phone for Geography
A New Zealand teaching university helps build strong curriculum and learning strategies that incorporate the devices kids use in their day to day interactions. Noeline Wright from the University of Waikato in Auckland visits us and gives us a scoop.
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?