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Personalized Learning
Project-Based Blends
Proejct-Based Learning is a great way to engage students and encourage deeper learning. Blended environments makes it easier to create time for projects. New tools make it easier to create consistently rigorous projects. Digital learning makes it easier to build skills to successfully participate in a PBL environment.
Personalized Learning
Abeo Launches Blended Principal Support Program
Washington State school principals have a new web of support this morning. iPLN – The Innovative Principal Leadership Network – is an Abeo Change Network offering professional networking to principals and their school leadership teams.
EdTech
Good Work: Edupreneurs Making a Difference
Wendy and Kim created new pathways to teaching and to building school networks. But what’s new and exciting is that a growing percentage of students graduating from elite institution want to start companies and they want to do it in education. New application development platforms, the mobile inflection, and viral adoption (an alternative to the district sales slog) have made it possible for a team to gain traction with a $500,000 investment instead of $5 million.
EdTech
Edmodo: From Social Network to Learning Platform
Like Facebook, the platform is free and easy to use. Edmodo grew to 6 million users almost entirely through teacher adoption. The coming app store means lots of new features for the 2012-13 season.
Personalized Learning
How to Work Together to Build Capacities for Collaboration
Having challenged, in my previous post for Getting Smart, some of the common notions we educators share about collaboration, I acknowledge that it is only fair that I take some time to wrestle with what collaboration really means and why it is so important as we prepare our students for the future.
EdTech
An Innovation Ecosystem Meets in Austin for SXSWedu
Key leaders in Austin will be meeting this week as part of SXSWedu to develop strategies for expanding Austin’s role as a national leader in ed tech innovation.
EdTech
Public/Private Organizations Begin Fellowship Program for Tomorrow’s Ed Leaders
The Ferguson Education Leadership Fellowship, created by Curriculum Associates and Rocketship Education, announced Tuesday that fellows in a new leadership program will spend ten months working full-time on curriculum, product development, and data and accountability beginning 2012.
EdTech
Rocketship Education Expands Charters to Milwaukee
Rocketship Education announced, in partnership with Milwaukee Common Council, today plans to bring eight high-performing charter schools to Milwaukee starting fall 2013, marking the beginning of its expansion into a national presence beyond California.
EdTech
Webinar: The Comprehensive Assessment Consortia
Two state consortia—Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium—are hard at work putting ambitious designs in place for new assessment systems. They have released materials and will soon select contractors to build assessments and the infrastructure to support them. What do their current plans look like?
Leadership
Staff Picks: How We Find Our News
This last week, many of our readers and partners have asked: Where do you gather your information? Well, we thought we'd share that with you! Below are our top picks for getting the front-line news.