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EdTech
All the World’s a Game
All the world’s a game. All the men and women are merely gamers. They all have their pre-orders and buy backs. And one person will play many games in a lifetime.
EdTech
Blended Learning Program Helps 35 LAUSD Schools Nearly Double Math Gains
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools showed significant gains, nearly doubling their growth in math proficiency between 2010 and 2012, with MIND Research Institute’s ST Math®, a visually based instructional software program featuring the animated penguin named JiJi, which fits naturally into a blended learning environment.
Personalized Learning
Digital Learning Now! Presents Data Plan to Power Personalization
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released "Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles," the second in the DLN Smart Series designed to provide specific guidance on adoption of Common Core State Standards and the shift to personal digital learning.
Personalized Learning
NCTAF Learning Studios: The Future of Learning
Every once in awhile, we see pictures of the future -- a graphic image, a set of relationships, new tools at work, the buzz of a culture that feels remarkably productive. For me, site visits to Big Picture and Edvision schools were really influential 12 years ago -- and why I'm still enthusiastic about flex school models that engage and empower students.
EdTech
Digital Learning Now! Releases DLN Smart Series Paper ‘Data Backpacks’
Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released “Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles,” the second in the DLN Smart Series of interactive papers, to create a clear roadmap to the integration of data, portable records, and learner profiles that support the shift to digital learning and Common Core State Standards.
EdTech
Hewlett Foundation Awards $100K to Winners of Short Answer Scoring Competition
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded $100,000 today in a competition to develop innovative software to help teachers score student written responses to test questions. The prize was divided among five (5) teams. The competition compared the ability of software to score short-answer student essays in a way that was similar to human graders. The results showed that the software is not yet able to achieve the same scores as human graders.
EdTech
JFF Sponsors Team Teaching For Rapid Credentialing
"What's new and different is bringing in an adult ed instructor and teaching elements within the [vocational] program," said Dr Jay Box, Chancellor of Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) where eight colleges are involved in Accelerating Opportunity. "All of the general education type of teaching is contextualized to the technical program."
Personalized Learning
The Flipped Classroom Turns Around an At-Risk, Failing School
As a principal of Clintondale High School, I’ve witnessed firsthand the struggles that a school must endure to educate at-risk students. Many of the students at Clintondale are faced with obstacles that hinder their education: 74 percent of our 570 students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, 38 percent receive special education services and 70 percent are a racial minority. Like many schools around the country, our students were failing their classes. In fact, two years ago our failure rate was 61 percent in some cases.
EdTech
Q&A: EverFi Launches Open-Source Badging Platform
Executive Vice President of Product Development at EverFi, Inc., Kara Hedges, joins us today to discuss the significance of EverFi's recent launch of its first open-source badging platform.
EdTech
Smarterer Just Got Smarter: 3 Enhancements
Smarterer today announced three new project enhancements that will improve learning for users, which continues a trajectory to support lifelong learning.