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EdTech
How to Talk to Parents About Your School’s EdTech
It's only natural for parents to feel some concern over the use of EdTech in their children's schools. Here are some tips for educators and EdLeaders who are facing these concerns, along with some tools you can use to demonstrate EdTech's potential efficacy.
Ed Policy
12 New Rules: Accelerated Learning for an Exponential World
How can leaders respond to the rise of the automation economy? Here's 12 new rules about accelerated learning and how state and local education policymakers can help.
EdTech
What if Holocaust Survivors Could Teach Your Class?
Holograms will be in our future, and will be in our future classrooms. In this post, we imagine the nearly limitless possibilities that would arise if we could hologram the best content drivers in every industry as our teachers.
Smart Planet
21 Global Education Resources to Continue Expanding Your Students’ Horizons
At a time when global issues seem closer to home than ever before, we’ve been grateful for the opportunity to spend a week looking at how we can help our students develop cultural competencies. Here are 21 resources to fuel continued thought and effort.
Equity & Access
Chan Zuckerberg Backs Personalized Learning R&D Agenda
This month Tom traveled to the Fusion conference where he sat down with Bror Saxberg and Jim Shelton of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to hear more about their personalized learning and R&D agenda.
Project-Based Learning
How to Humanize Learning in the Classroom with 3 Global Issues
By: Cleary Vaughan-Lee. How integrating stories of migration, climate change and language loss, can create real context and global-to-local connections for students.
Leadership
Getting Smart Podcast | How Personalized Learning is Transforming Adult Education
In this week's episode, listen in to a conversation on adult education with Tom Arnett, Senior Research Fellow at the Christensen Institute. Tom shares trends, tech, entrepreneurship in curriculum and orgs adopting blended learning.
Equity & Access
LRNG & John Legend Are Spreading Access to Quality Education
This month, LRNG Innovators and John Legend are rolling out a series of videos on teacher-led programs that creatively spark passion and excitement for learning in their students. Learn more here.
Future of Learning
Education in the Innovation Economy
By: John Eger. Many tech CEOs prefer employees with liberal arts degrees, as “the liberal arts train students to thrive in subjectivity and ambiguity, a necessary skill in the tech world where few things are black and white.” Learn more here.
STEM & Maker
5 Ways to Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day
Today is National STEM/STEAM Day, and we want to take the opportunity to celebrate and come together over the importance of STEAM education. Here are five fun projects that can get students interested today.