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Future of Learning

Organizing Your School As A List Of Courses Doesn’t Work for Learners

Tom Vander Ark

Mar 18, 2019

A list of courses will not help young people (in high school or college) find and begin to make their unique contribution. It’s time to move beyond the historical structures and practices what we inherited in education and start doing the right thing for kids.

Future of Learning

How Learning Works: 10 Research-Based Insights

Guest Author

Mar 18, 2019

By: Babe Liberman. Digital Promise and the Institute for Applied Neuroscience teamed up to synthesize findings from the growing field of learning sciences research into 10 key insights about how people learn.

Personalized Learning

BPLC: There’s Something Happening Here

Guest Author

Mar 16, 2019

By: Laura Jackson. Teachers and schools are coming to the Blended & Personalized Learning Conference is April 4-6th, in Providence, Rhode Island to share their lessons learned.

Leadership

10 Talent Tips from Google HR

Tom Vander Ark

Mar 14, 2019

We recently got to sit down with Iveta Brigis a former People Partner at Google to learn about her time working on the K-12 Talent Academy and her tips for talent development.

Podcasts

Podcast: Exposing Engineering to Underrepresented Groups with Dr. Amon Millner

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 13, 2019

Tom discusses the importance of accessibility relating to computing with Dr. Amon Millner at the Olin College of Engineering.

Future of Learning

Six Tips, Three Whys: A SXSW EDU Reflection

Getting Smart Staff

Mar 13, 2019

The Getting Smart team was grateful to be an SXSW EDU 2019 partner and are back home from Austin, ready to share our learnings from the conference.

EdTech

ISTE Releases A Practical Guide for Educators on Buying Edtech

Emily Liebtag

Mar 12, 2019

ISTE along with Project Unicorn have released Better Edtech Buying for Educators: A Practical Guide to better inform educators purchasing decisions.

Place Based Education

Place-Based Education Anchors Learning in the Community

David Ross

Mar 11, 2019

David Ross explains how in Place-Based Education the nature of a place determines the culture of the classroom to an extraordinary degree.

Project-Based Learning

Expanding Our Notion of Student Agency

William Bryant

Mar 10, 2019

Student agency from a sociocultural perspective has as much to do with external factors that shape experiences and possibilities as it does with internal attributes. Read more from one of our regular columnists on why it's time to expand our notion of student agency.

EdTech

To Prepare Millennials for the Workplace Add Data Literacy to Mainstream Curriculum

Guest Author

Mar 9, 2019

By: Jordan Morrow. Companies need a workforce that knows how to input data, generate better insights, and feel empowered to use data.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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