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Personalized Learning
Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?
It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.
Leadership
Why Parents Should Support Student-Centered Learning
By: Nicholas C. Donohue. Personal stories, practical strategies and a framework for parents navigating the shift to student-centered learning. And, why Nellie Mae has chosen to partner with Getting Smart to tell parent stories in the new book, Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning.
Uncategorized
Why Do Human Beings Engage? 26 Impulses That Sustain Engagement
Each stimuli is unique for each person and each person responds based on a unique motivational profile. Nevertheless it’s worth attempting to identify the root motivations for engagement to become more intentional about creating sticky experiences. Here are 26 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy
EdTech
EdTech 10: Opportunities to Influence, Accelerate and Amplify EdTech
This week’s EdTech news exemplifies why now is great time to make an impact in EdTech. Curating these top news stories left us inspired to see momentum in EdTech carry into back to school season.
Leadership
Horizontal Professional Development: Teachers Teaching Teachers to Develop 21st Century Competencies
By: Linda Hipper - Teachers teaching teachers and using professional development to prepare students with 21st century skills.
Personalized Learning
How to Create Student Fitness Opportunities & Physical Education in Online Learning
When we talk about expanding online learning opportunities, like me you might wonder where working out fits in. Isn’t childhood obesity on the rise? Will students taking online courses be more prone health problems associated with a lack of exercise?
Difference Making
What it’s like to Teach GenDIY Students at Career Path High
By Jessika Chandler: When I graduated college and began looking for my first teaching job, I was drawn to Career Path High’s career-focused blended learning flex model.
Leadership
How to Give Students a Chance at the Game
As Putnam describes in his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, it is key that we move towards a collective responsibility, and a “return to being a nation where there are only ‘our kids,’ not just ‘my kids.’”
Personalized Learning
As the World Changes, So Must Education
By: Liz Wimmer. As our workforce and labor market changes and technology becomes even more evolved, our schools must change. Personalization and anytime, anywhere learning is here to stay. This blog advocates for changes and summarizes what's in store for the future of education.
Difference Making
Insights into Vital Millennial Skills
GSV Media recently released a Wealth of Nations 2.0 report with data on the top 10 countries by Millennials skills and the U.S. was listed as ranking low at 19.