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Lidia and the Gift of the Collective Brain
"The way we learned was, when one classmate learned how to do something, they'd teach another classmate...and that classmate would teach another classmate." Lidia, young girl in Peruvian Amazon, using her new laptop.
Digital Ed Is People
The first lessons in web 2.0 are you must teach people and treat people with respect. The whole process of engagement is a learning process. Why can't we make education like that now?
Blended Learning Leverages Great Teachers
Opportunity at the Top, a great report from Public Impact, points out that it’s great teachers that close achievement gaps but that all current efforts will fall well short of ensuring that all US students see the benefits. The problem is that we’re trying to solve the wrong problem–there’s just…
CapEx Thinking
Private capital plays an important role in public education, because most superintendents can't raise money to invest in productivity improvement.
Frustrated Poets
Gotham Gal goes to the Berkery Noyes VC Summit and believes tech can help women enter the education investment workforce. True, but let's take it further.
Surgical Teaching
By changing the paradigm for studying laptop schemes, we could accelerate surgical teaching.
A Collaborator Gets His Wings
Every time someone buys a computer in suburban America, a consumer becomes a producer, social learning grows, and we still haven't paid enough attention to urban youth.
If You Can't Create, It Ain't Worth It
Something needs to shift in how we pay attention to learners, if there is going to be any development in useful education technology devices or methods.
Six New Resources for Digital Educators
Education resource list 2.0 -- Today's list of interesting web sites will broaden your knowledge of online teaching and education technology. These links are for teachers looking for education ideas, technology fits and ideas to implement into curriculum.
You Wouldn't Inhibit Amazon, Why Education?
Former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise talks with edReformer about equity strategies and policy for education in anticipation of the SIIA August 4-6 Personalized Learning Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts.