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Motivational Profiles
Mining the combined data from home and school will yield rich and powerful motivational profiles that will power smart recommendation engines--and that's when we'll see the real power of customized learning.
More urban school districts adopt portfolio reform strategy
Building a portfolio of options--new and improved schools--is the only viable strategy for vital urban education. It's a great strategy for leveraging community resources and targeting specific needs/geographies.
Q & A with Jon Schwartz of Kids Like Blogs
See this Q & A with Jon Schwartz, an elementary school teacher and runs the site Kids Like Blogs! He believes that blogs motivate students to write, read, create art, and the use of technology.
Differentiated Instruction
Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.
Glogster: Teachers & Students Get Creative
Katie Vander Ark went to India. She made a Glog. What's a glog? It's a simple layout web page for sharing photos, video, and commentary.
Smart Profiles on Social Platforms in Post-LMS world
Sparse thoughts on next-gen learning platforms. Where will profiles full of content-embedded assessment data sit? Perhaps profiles, like lots of other stuff, will just be social learning apps.
Project Foundry
Guest blogger Chad Sansing interviews Project Foundry founder Shane Krukowski.
Virtual Portfolio Overlay
Virtual courses are quickly becoming an important overlay to portfolio strategy (last post) as Paul Hill pointed out yesterday at Yale Edu Leaders Conference. Virtual schools offer full school and course alternatives. In the next year I think we’ll get to the point where every student in America has…
Learning platforms to come
The next generation of transformative learning platforms will include personalized instruction, social learning, and related services. They will integrate the functionality of learning management, student information systems, and longitudinal data systems. They’ll take advantage of the explosion of data that will come along with assessment embedded in digital content (e.g., score…