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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
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Q&A: What’s GoingOn At Your University?
GoingOn, an academic social networking platform, allows educators and administrators to keep student informed about unique opportunities in their major, courses, interests and more. Jon Corshen, CEO of GoingOn, joins us today to discuss the ways that social networking is expanding opportunities for students, bridging gaps in collaboration and integrating increased back-channeled conversation in and out of the classroom.
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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.
EdTech
Skype Announces Collaboration to Provide Education Resources
Skype announces today it's latest education initiative, a collaboration with Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Science Museum London, Peace One Day, and Save the Children to provide educators access to digital content and expert speakers via video calling.
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The Juilliard School & Connections Education Launch First-Ever Juilliard eLearning Courses
Starting in the 2012-2013 school year, The Juilliard School and Connections Education are launching JUILLIARD eLEARNING, for K-12 students and educators everywhere. Juilliard eLearning is the world-famous conservatory’s first-ever group of online courses, presenting an exciting new option for teaching music and related courses, with distribution and implementation by leading provider of online learning solutions, Connections Education, part of the global education company, Pearson.
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Maker High: Why Every School Should Be a Maker Faire
"Maker Faire" running this weekend in San Mateo. It’s a “festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.” There will be lots of inspiration for schools that combine digital learning and community connected, team-based, production-focused, authentic, engaging, and relevant student work.
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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.
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NewSchools: Ten Conversations with Edupreneurs
The NewSchools Summit (#NSVFsummit), co-hosted with the Aspen Institute, was held in an SFO airport hotel this week. Summit attendees start with equity as the North Star. Kids are the focus. Entrepreneurship is their path. Ten hallway conversations stood out as emblematic of the struggle to improve American schools.
EdTech
Out of Poverty Into Opportunity
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton. At the NewSchools Venture Fund SUMMIT2012 (in collaboration with The Aspen Institute) this May in San Francisco, NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell gave an inspiring address to one thousand members of America's leading education reform movement.
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MN High School Students Can Take Free College Classes
About half of the states allow high school students to enroll in college courses. Last week Minnesota joined the club with legislation powered by a 'money follows the student' provision. Students can take courses on the college campus or online. Following is a summary written by our friend Joe Nathan.