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Motivational Profiles
Mining the combined data from home and school will yield rich and powerful motivational profiles that will power smart recommendation engines--and that's when we'll see the real power of customized learning.
2x Time with Digital Learning
Personal digital learning and partnerships with community based organizations have the potential to double learning time for kids that need it most
A Letter to Principals About Levers
Principals have seven historical improvement levers: culture, goals, instruction, materials, hiring, parents, and partners. Blended learning is an emerging lever that creates new degrees of freedom
Coherence = f(Sustained Leadership)
As discussed with Summit Prep, the level of coherence—the degree to which every aspect of the school works together for students and teachers—is very high.
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.
John Super, AdvancePath President
Q & A with John Super of AdvancePath a dropout prevention/ recovery network.
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.