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EdTech 10: Students At The Center
This is one of those weeks in EdTech news that we wish would be every week, because this week the top stories that emerged focused on putting students at the center. When it came to assessments, rights, parents, new videos, reports, and platforms, student learning was paramount.
Connections Education: Creating Powerful Experiences for Learners
A look inside the online and blended learning experiences and opportunities Connections Education is providing for thousands of students around the country.
3 Factors to Consider When Choosing an Innovative School
By: Nina Rees. As school choice has taken root across the country, parents are making educational choices for and with their children. Nina offers up these three factors that can help parents when choosing innovative schools.
Designing A Network Of Education Innovation Clusters
By: Steven Hodas. With support from the Grable Foundation, Innovate NYC Schools and Digital Promise are launching the design phase of the Innovation Cluster Network to bring together educators, startups, policymakers, investors, researchers, and community groups across the usual boundaries that separate them.
MobLab Brings Interactive Experiments To The Social Sciences
Students learn by doing experiments and experiencing how things work first-hand in the natural and physical sciences. In 2011, two Caltech scientists, Walter Yuan and Stephanie Wang, founded MobLab to bring such powerful game-based learning experiences to economics, management, and all of the social sciences.
Impact at Scale: The Learning Platform Series
It will soon be easier to create a sequence of powerful learning experiences for students -- and do it consistently well at scale. For the next six weeks we’ll be reviewing progress on next-gen learning platforms.
EdTech 10: Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
News stories of companies teaming up, reports on opportunities for potential collaboration and overall happenings of people coming together, be it through sharing resources or opinions, towards the common goal of enriching learning and teaching experiences.
Unprecedented Opportunities: Online Learning Explosion Empowers GenDIY
By: Michael B. Horn. GenDIY students who are motivated can piece together their educations from a variety of non-traditional and affordable sources.
7 Things EdLeaders Should Do
Opportunities in school leadership are great but so are the challenges. There are seven steps to transform a school or district.
How Learning Will Work in the Near Future: 12 Features of Next-Gen Platforms
Learning platforms will be foundational to the development and adoption of next-gen learning. Here are core elements of next-gen platforms, how platforms can develop into ecosystems, and investment mechanisms, and example initiatives for philanthropists who want to accelerate progress.