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Moving from Inputs to Outputs to Outcomes
A new Innosight Institute report, Moving from Inputs to Outputs to Outcomes: The Future of Education Policy, is worth a read and a board study session.
Digital Learning with Innovators
Last night I led a Q & A session with two digital learning innovators, Shantanu Sinha of Kahn Academy and John Danner of Rocketship at UW. Both are paving the way for innovation in the market and turning around great results.
Creating Cohorts in a Blended World
Cohorts in traditonal schooling are birthday based but creating cohorts in a blended world will look very different. Outlined at five innovative strategies for combining the benefits of customized learning and peer cohorts.
The Inevitability of Personal Digital Learning
Over the past two decades there has been a variety of reform but the inevitability of personal digital learning is unavoidable.
John Dewey to Farmville: 3 Decades of Learning
More children are learning from Farmville and other games, which is becoming the "new normal". Bing Gordon, a leader in the gaming industry believes that games are becoming a source to connect and engage with students in a way that is constantly teaching them new lessons.
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.
The Importance of Value Added
The combination of digital learning and performance based reviews could make it much easier to measure student progress and transform todays education system.
Changing the Learning Curve
Using digital learning and personalized learning there is a way to change the learning curve, especially during major budget cuts.
Design Thinking for Human Resources
Design thinking can be used for the complicated process of recruiting and developing teachers and more broadly school staffs. Listed at 20 dimensions of an effective education human resource system.
Minnesota Dreamin'
I visited the Minnesorta Senate Education Committee and spoke on online and blended learning. I advised them on the optimistic opportunities that personal digital learning would be better meet the needs of individual students and would be cost effectively extend the day and year.