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The Nation Hit Piece Had Little to do With What’s Good For Students
The Nation ran a long piece condemning anyone promoting innovation in education. The article didn't have much to do with what's good for students.
EdTech
Free, Mobile, Clouds and Other Innovation Topics
We can’t reform our way to the education our kids need for their future. The gap between what they need and what our Bismarckian schools can produce is widening. This is a problem of obsolesce not effort or intent (at least in most places). Telling one teacher to differentiate instruction…
EdTech
Infographic: Does America Have the Right Stuff?
Knewton recently published an infographic on STEM Education in the U.S. It poses the question: Does American have the right stuff to produce to the next Pete Conrad, Steve Jobs and others? At the rate we're going with our STEM Education approach, the infographic implies that the answer is simply - no.
EdTech
Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are to Technology
K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology. Check out the fun and interesting facts from the report!
EdTech
Tom Vander Ark Talks Online and Blended Learning With ChoiceMedia.TV
Getting Smart blogger Tom Vander Ark spoke with Choice Media at the recent 2011 Excellence in Action Summit, hosted by the Foundation for Excellence in Education this October. In this short interview, Vander Ark discusses the challenges states face with policies that prohibit the development of effective online and blended learning models for students.
EdTech
Military Personnel Train With Advanced Games
What industry has refined the technique of learning to a level that no other sector has developed, possibly even including education itself? I'd venture to say it's the military. Our military has created models for learning that train its personnel on some of the most technical, detailed, and highly pressured tasks. One of its biggest training techniques is the use of games.
Personalized Learning
So, You Want to Be Governor? Here’s Your Platform
The 2012 campaign season is in full swing for national and statewide races. Gubernatorial candidates are raising money and shaping messages. Other than a few states where new drilling technology has unlocked a new round of oil drilling, most states are broke and it won’t change for years. …
EdTech
Join the Global Education Conference Live Online
The Global Education Conference, a collaborative community initiative, kicked off this week around the world and will run through Friday, November 18, 2011. The entire conference is being broadcasted online using the Blackboard Collaborate platform.
Personalized Learning
Creating Sound Policy For Digital Learning
Fordham released two important papers today as part of the Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series. The first, Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction, is by the co-directors of Public Impact. Bryan and Emily Hassel are the Gladwells of education—they point to profound truths hiding in plan sight. In short, this is the best current description of the implications of digital learning on learning professionals.
Personalized Learning
OER Update: Open High, NROC, CK12
I’ve seen a lot of good open content for grades 6-12 in the few days. Last week I was on a panel at iNACOL with DeLaina Tonks of Open High of Utah who leads a really impressive team piloting innovative practices and building engaging content. They recently released their CC licensed OpenCourseWare, a free 9th-10th grade curriculum.