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Leadership
Staff Picks: Digital Playlist, Blended Learning, Mobile Learning
Tom picks digital playlists by Adam Renfro, Karen picks NEA support for blended learning, Caroline picks student Digital Learning Day testimonies, and Sarah picks a presentation iPad app.
EdTech
TASC Reports After-School Programs Equalize Tech Access For Students
Recently, The After-School Corporation released "Where the Kids Are: Digital Learning In Class and Beyond," a white paper that looks at the benefits of expanding technology-enabled learning time in after-school programs, and a video that reinforces the ways that students can gain access to learning opportunities at school and in community organizations.
Personalized Learning
The NEA Spells Out Support for Blended Learning
The NEA issued a policy brief in support of blended learning. The policy prescriptions are mostly on track but the report missed the potential to improve working conditions and career opportunities for teachers.
EdTech
RabbleBrowser: Improve Classroom Management With Mobile Learning
“The concept of the 60-minute learning block is broken,” says Chad Udell, the managing director of Float Mobile Learning (Float). “We’re entering an new age where what constitutes learning and what provides learning is changing.”
Personalized Learning
DJ Your Classroom: The Digital Playlist
Wednesday was Digital Learning Day, and the Renfro Manor celebrated in the traditional manner with high-fructose digitalization: Youtube, Pandora, Twitter, Moodle, Cabanga, Skype, G-talk, Blackboard, Time4Learning, Facebook, LinkedIn, NCVPS, Apple TV, IMs, playlists, and then I dropped the kids off at school.
EdTech
Parents & Teachers Speak Up About Digital Learning In Ohio
This Wednesday, Tom Vander Ark, students, teachers, and parents testified in front of the Ohio House of Representatives' Education Committee in support of digital learning. Four students wowed the audience with their stories while several teachers and parents stood in strong support of students learning digitally today.
EdTech
4 Students Impress Ohio House Reps’ Ed Committee In Digital Learning
Lisa Duty, the Director of External Affairs at KnowledgeWorks, reported from the Ohio State Capitol during Wednesday’s first-event Digital Learning Day: On February 1st, 2012 Chairman Gerald Stebelton and the Ohio House of Representatives’ Education Committee heard testimony from Tom Vander Ark, Ohio education leaders, parents and…
EdTech
Q&A: Ohio Educators & Students Talk Digital Learning With House Education Committee
Yesterday I joined colleagues from KnowledgeWorks and testified before the Ohio House Education Committee chaired by Gerald Stebelton. They already passed HB153 expanding online options for students in Ohio, but they have work to do as I outlined in my testimony. I followed for very articulate students well served by online and blended schools. The committee asked great questions.
Personalized Learning
A Bold Approach to Cultivating Tomorrow’s Teachers
Denver is on the leading edge of a national movement in teacher preparation—one that is has the potential to transform our classrooms and unlock a key to success in our schools.
Personalized Learning
Technology Transforms Teachers Into Master Chefs of the Classroom
A teacher is like a chef of the classroom, creating recipes for learning, devising experiences for students the way an expert chef composes a dining experience. A skillful teacher processes an almost constant stream of micro-decisions, juggling many lessons, as they plan, carry out, and adapt.