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How Philanthropy Can Improve & Accelerate the Shift to Digital Learning
There are a dozen opportunities for foundations to focus, improve and accelerate the shift to digital learning including planning support for school, district, network, and states; supporting pilots programs and new schools; and sponsoring research, advocacy, and learning opportunities.
Blended Learning Can Improve Working Conditions, Teaching & Learning
Teachers have tough jobs—lots of kids and lots of responsibility—and budget cuts are making things worse. Blending the best of online and onsite learning can work better for students and teachers. There are 15 ways that blended learning is beginning to improving working conditions, teaching and learning.
From LMS to Learning Ecosystems
EdWeek’s Ian Quillen reviewed a Don McIntosh report on the learning management systems (LMS) market. Adaptive content, social learning, smart engines, lots of open content, and an explosion of mobile apps are expanding aspirations. The RttT states have proposals out for instructional improvement systems that ask for ecosystem like capabilities; that and the shift to online assessments that will take place in most states in 25 months will accelerate ecosystem development.
Digital Learning Leads to Deeper Learning
We think digital learning can lead to deeper learning. We’re writing a paper with a framework of evidence. A little brainstorming led to a list of ten benefits we’ve seen: Engagement: media that grabs attention Motivation: encouragement to go deeper Persistence: capturing more learning hours per day Production: ability…
Digital Learning is Critical for Move to Learner-Centered Instruction
Preparing all students to succeed in today’s increasingly complex world requires a shift from a teacher-centric culture to learner-centered instruction that recognizes students’ individual learning needs, according to a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education. The report, Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning, examines the support that educators and schools will require to implement genuine teaching practices that are personalized for each student.
Improving Urban Education Options: A Digital Portfolio Approach
There are three key strategies to improving urban schools: bring high expectations to life, create and portfolio of quality options, and phase in personal digital learning
Educurious: Engaging Minds & Changing Lives
Educurious set out to make kids work harder, learn more, and love it. With support from the Gates Foundation, the Seattle nonprofit created high school biology and English courses that are compelling and challenging. Results from a handful of pilot sites indicate that it’s working.
5 Characteristics Connecting Montessori Ed & the Personalized Learning Movement
At first glance, the intersections between Montessori education and high-quality digital learning are not immediately apparent. To those of us with some knowledge about Montessori methods—based on formal training, general awareness or, as in my case, the observations of a parent whose children attend a Montessori school—its natural materials and deep traditions seem to stand in opposition to the vision of a futuristic, technology-rich digital or blended learning environment.
How P2PU is Reshaping Professional Learning for K-12 Teachers
Professional learning for K-12 teachers is an exciting space with great demand and high payoff for successful models. However, much of the professional development currently done for in-service teachers reflects old, industrial-era models of learning: rows of desks, teachers standing front and center, seat time, and lecture. Current models of granting credit to teachers are similarly antiquated and are rarely designed to prompt innovation in the classroom.
Teaching Opportunity: Excellence, Leadership & Student Impact
Public Impact posted summaries of how 10 different school models leverage talent. "In each of these models, teachers have career opportunities dependent upon their excellence, leadership, and student impact. Advancement allows more pay and greater reach."