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NewSchools Launches Ed Tech Market Map
NewSchools Venture Fund announced Wednesday, the release of an interactive representation of the geographic K-12 education-technology market to help investors, donors, and entrepreneurs better evaluate the landscape of edtech ventures.
EdTech
Jeb Bush & Bob Wise Release Roadmap for Reform: Digital Learning
Governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise, co-chairs of Digital Learning Now!, a nationwide initiative that advocates personal digital learning, released the Roadmap for Reform: Digital Learning during the Foundation for Excellence in Education's 2011 National Summit on Education Reform.
Personalized Learning
Rev Up Your Mobile Learning Lab On a Bus
Today's Smart Teachers post is by Adam Renfro, a consultant for Open Education Solutions. Adam's article covers a play-by-play on how the daily school bus ride could be improved to promote learning through mobile devices.
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Knewton Secures $33 Million to Expand Personalized Ed
Knewton announced today the completion of $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson, to accelerate expansion of the company’s Adaptive Learning Platform™. The award-winning platform transforms third-party educational content by personalizing it to each individual student, allowing educators to remix any publisher’s educational materials. Adaptive…
Personalized Learning
Jeb Bush: A Real Shot at Quality at Scale
Jeb Bush supports digital learning “Because it’s the best chance we have to promote rising student achievement at the most rapid rate possible.” Bush delivered a rousing lunch speech at Philanthropy Roundtable’s Technology & the Shift to Student-Centric Learning conference. Former Florida Governor Bush enumerated the unacceptable…
EdTech
2011 Excellence in Action National Summit Convenes This Week
Education leaders, lawmakers and policymakers meet tomorrow in San Francisco, Calif. for the annual 2011 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform. The two-day summit is flagship initiative for the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), where participants are immersed in briefings, discussions and debates around research, pilot programs and policies for increasing student achievement.
Personalized Learning
Taking Stock, Moving Forward
Jiji from ST Math It seems odd that after a NYTimes event called Schools for Tomorrow, they’d put another pandering Richtel potshot A1 above the fold on Sunday. It follows a week of bad news about online learning from Colorado but Sarah suggests you Take Another Look…
Personalized Learning
Communication Barriers: Keeping the Walls Down in the Online Classroom
The Wall Street Journal recently discussed communication difficulties between foreign doctors and patients in Iowa. The article emphasized the communication barriers that can exist between doctors and patients who come from different cultures. It made me think about communication between online students. Distance learning peers rarely live in the same geographic area (and become quite excited when they discover someone who does live in the same region), but generally communicate quite well.
Personalized Learning
Pocket Tales Wins Global Education Challenge
Houghton Mifflin announced the winners of the Global Education Challenge last night in Washington DC. I kicked off the event with a quick recap of the promise of personal digital learning: customization, motivation, and equalization (as outlined in Getting Smart, available online this week). It just so…
Personalized Learning
Customization is to Fracking as Persistence is to Horizontal Drilling
Innovation changes our assumptions. It makes possible what was previously impossible. It changes the math in our mental models.