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Next Generation Learning Challenges Announces Wave III
Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) announced today the availability of $12 million in grants for comprehensive models that apply technology to personalize students' learning experiences as a part of its Wave III challenge.
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From Place to Service
The shift from print-based learning to digital learning is a big deal, but more fundamental is the shift from institution-centric education to student-centered learning. Rich Halverson spoke about Rethinking Education at SREB last month. Below is a list adapted from Rich’s book about the10 shifts that…
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States Need to Plan the Shift & Close the Divide
Bob Wise, DLNCo-Chair Over the last ten weeks this blog and video series has featured the Digital Learning Now state policy framework. Co-chair Gov. Bob Wise explains in the final video the importance of infrastructure to deliver on the promise of digital learning. Element #10…
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Florida Leadership Delivers the Future of Education
The state of Florida with the leadership of Governor Jeb Bush has proven that innovative strategies in education reform coupled with emerging technologies can transform learning outcomes for students of all socio-economic backgrounds.
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Q&A: Teachers Need to be “Provisioned” for Emerging Technologies & Assessment
In her Q&A, Dr. Mazur talks about the importance of DGBL in developing new learning strategies and assessment models that engage students in learning skills for the 21st century. She articulates, however, that while these new, emerging technologies are widely successful and effective,, the current educational system in place prohibits real growth in the games-for-learning industry. She says we need to move away from standardized testing and create new provisions for teaching that welcome and support DGBL in the classroom.
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10 Things States Should Do Now
The 2012 election season is in full swing. I listened to a great gubernatorial campaign speech this week suggesting that jobs and education were the priorities—and I couldn’t agree more. I spent a day with Policy Innovators in Education (PIE-Net), a great network of state policy groups. The…
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School Will Change, With or Without Following Rules
Public education is, by its very nature, tangled with policy, dependent on rules and regulations set by federal, state, and district mandates. What most students do in school at any given moment has been prescribed by legislation passed years before they — or their parents — entered kindergarten.
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Top 10 Apps for Arts Education
Art has permeated human culture for centuries, outlining significant events, movements, revolutions and thoughts throughout time. Studying art is the exploration of history, Language Arts, humanities, anthropology and more in a classic liberal arts education. Here are 10 of the best website and apps for exploring art that you can easily use in your lessons.
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Building with Rammed Earth
This year I had the great fortune of getting to know some thoughtful charter school leaders from across the country. They were convened by the Partners forDeveloping Futures, a group that makes grants to promising charter schools who are led by people of color. I just returned from a trip to New York City where our group visited three schools that were in their early stages of development and exemplars of school design.
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Customizing Without Computers
I saw the future of high schools yesterday. It wasn't about cool digital aps, laptops, or talking to other young people on the other side of the world. It was re-engineering schooling around young people and their lives. Only in its second year,ACE Leadership High School, a charter school in Albuquerque, has the key to to unlocking our young people's hearts and minds.