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Personalized Learning
Blending Alone (Part 2): How to Blend Your Own PD
It is important to keep in mind that of the many learning journeys that will be happening in your classroom... one of them will be yours.
Personalized Learning
Hoover Conference Explores Blended Learning
The panel concluded that blended learning has to be a bottom up, organic adoption by teachers--a reflection of the schools and districts they represented. The panel missed the “extended reach” strategies outlined by Opportunity Culture and in the SmartSeries paper, Improving Conditions and Careers.
Personalized Learning
Blending Alone: How to Blend in a Non-Blended Environment
I can tell you that the following pieces of advice aren’t the result of strategies that worked out of the gate, but rather iterations of ideas and mistakes driven by the idea that blended learning is what is best for students. So the question is, what needs to change to make this transition as smooth as possible for all involved?
EdTech
13 Startups Share Dreams at ImagineK12 Demo Day
There was a full house at a Palo Alto hotel ballroom for the fifth Imagine12 Demo Day--the debut of 13 eager edtech startups. Check out our summary of the teacher tools.
Ed Policy
10 Sources of Inspiration for Next-Gen Learning Systems
Easier said than done, right? We could keep adding technology to current schools but that would just create a more expensive version of what we have.
Leadership
The Future: What 32 Ed Leaders Are Excited About
It's exciting to hear these leaders describing high engagement and multi-modal learning environments with cultures that embrace high expectations and provide strong supports--and personalized learning for educators as well as students!
Ed Policy
Putting It All Together to Make Schools Smarter
Third in a series, this post considers the investment, innovation, and employment models that will create smarter schools and more attractive environments and career pathways for educators.
EdTech
Build on Strengths, Explore Interests, Shore Up Weaknesses
About 40 months ago Nicholas Carr was suggesting that the Internet was making us stupid—which I thought was stupid. So I wrote Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning Will Make Us Smart. I, for one, am very optimistic about the potential to dramatically boost achievement and completion rates here and around the world.
Personalized Learning
Make Your Webinar Plans for 2014 Now- With Temple Grandin
Mark your calendars now and register quickly for this free series that will offer a new understanding, not only for special education student needs but for the best and most update strategies for schools to be able to meet those needs.
Leadership
4 Frighteningly Ambitious Education Experiments for 2014.
“It is isn’t rocket science, its just hard work.” Well, guess what? Our kids need us to build them some rockets. The 100-year old school model we all keep accepting as our canvas is not what kids need.