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Difference Making
Combining Working and Learning to Pursue Passions, Skills and Productivity
By: Parminder K. Jassal. Groups like ACT Foundation, Business Roundtable and the National Network are working to help people navigate the landscape of work and learn opportunities through developing online tools, blueprints and models. The goal is to make the work and learn connection more commonplace as a key driver of economic competitiveness, career success and life satisfaction.
Personalized Learning
How to Empower Students Through Service and Student-Centered Learning
By: Stacey Adamczyk. High school students deserve a safe learning setting, computer-based curriculum, service learning, and life experience opportunities. They deserve a hands-on, real-world approach to learning, and a foundational relationship built on trust with caring adults.
Difference Making
5 HigherEd Learning Trends About to Reshape the Workplace
By: Lenny DeFranco & Getting Smart Staff. Today's college students will soon be tomorrow's business leaders and the ways they're learning will carry over to the workplaces where they're headed. These learning rends are changing the learning experience for postsecondary students, and will subsequently influence the culture and systems of workplaces in the near future.
Ed Policy
How New Schools, Tools and Policies Will Bring an End to the Big Test
We are beginning to see the end of the current era of standards-based reform and for people that care about equity, we are wondering what’s next? So what is next? There have been eight important developments since NCLB was enacted. The most important sign of things to come is the trend towards personalized, blended, and competency-based education systems
EdTech
Med Students Use Art to Observe, Data to Spot Trends
Innovations in medical education are improving the affect and effect of doctors in training. Med schools are exploring uses of big data to improve diagnosis and trend spotting while others are incorporating interdisciplinary studies to improve observation and communication skills.
EdTech
Exponential Technology: Everything is Closer Than it Appears
Exponential technologies have created eight opportunities for operators, Edupreneurs, and investors. Taking full advantage of these eight opportunities requires an improved learning infrastructure, a combination of industry standards, new state policies, and a few new tools.
Personalized Learning
3 Lenses for Developing Deeper Driving Questions
Three questions give us a set of lenses through which to consider the content and how our students might apply thinking through creative, collaborative tinkering-based projects that result in thoughtful products of their learning.
Personalized Learning
Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.
Personalized Learning
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Self-Blended Learning
By: Bernard Bull. A form of blended learning that was led and designed by the students instead of the teachers. You’ve heard of blended learning. You’ve probably read about self-directed learning. Put them together and you get self-blended learning,
Leadership
5 Lessons Learned in the Transition to Blended Learning
Five blended learning workshop takeaways and seven resources that support blended implementation and #raisingblendedlearners.