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Future of Learning
What’s Next in Learning? Four Future Trends
Imagine a platform that enabled you to access local and national opportunities from your smartphone or computer, a place where you can pursue your interests with mentors and peers, building new skills and habits wherever you are, whenever you want. LRNG, now part of Southern New Hampshire University, extends access…
Future of Learning
Podcast: Don Wettrick on Teaching Entrepreneurship
This week, we interview Don Wettrick and discuss teaching entrepreneurship and what led him to create STARTedUP Foundation.
Future of Learning
Four Trends Influencing Education
A fitness tracker changed my life—it changed how I think about goal-setting and monitoring my exercise, it changed the intentionality of my travels, and it created a new global community of people who share my interests. I’m not alone; about a quarter of U.S. adults use some kind of tracker.
Personalized Learning
What I Learned When I Studied Six Chicago Schools Transforming to Personalized Learning Environments
By: Rich Halverson. Much was learned after an in-depth study on how personalized learning was implemented in six urban schools partnered with LEAP Innovations.
Equity & Access
When NExT Is Now
By: Lindsay Portnoy. How could we use experiential learning to reframe educational problems as opportunities and make learning more equitable globally? Over 100 educators representing thousands of educational settings across the country recently gathered at Northeastern Experiential Learning Network (NExT) to discuss this important question. The NExT…
Schools Worth Visiting
Four Emerging Trends in Learning
Imagine going to school in a museum and studying real artifacts. Imagine a sustained relationship with an advisor who helps you figure out what you’re good at and care about, and where you can make a difference. Imagine high school students designing practical solutions to community problems. Visit an innovative…
Future of Learning
Strategize for Preferred Futures of Learning Today
By: Katherine Prince. The next decade promises to deepen the impacts that smart machines and the code that powers them have already begun to have on human activities and relationships. Social, economic, and environmental changes will interact with technological developments to place increasing strain on our institutions and on our…
Leadership
Podcast: Elisa Villanueva-Beard on Teacher Leadership
On today's episode, the Getting Smart staff speaks with Teach for America's CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard about teacher leadership.
Future of Learning
Podcast: Paul Johnson on Preparing Engineers for Impact
Today the Getting Smart staff speaks with Paul Johnson who outlines 10 signs of progress enhanced student experience and expanded impact.
Future of Learning
Leadership and Design Skills Chart the Future of Work
By Emily Liebtag and Tom Vander Ark. Taliq Tillman (above) is an outspoken sophomore at an Ivy League college and the co-founder of Diversity Talks, a nonprofit that gives voice to marginalized students. Tillman described to an audience at the University of Pennsylvania how traditional education—including the best known colleges—often…