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Partnerships Will Unlock Digital Promise
Newt Minnow proposed Digital Promise a decade ago While launching an over due edtech center, Duncan gave a great speech on the power of personal digital learning (I suspect Karen Cator gets most of the credit there). DigitalPromise is supposed to “identify breakthrough technologies, learn faster what’s…
EdTech
Ed Leaders Meet With Detroit Public Schools On Ed Opportunities & Innovation
Education leaders join tonight at the "Hacking Education" Dinner, hosted by NewSchools Venture Fund, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the University of Michigan's Social Venture Fund, in Detroit, Michigan.
EdTech
White House Launches New “Digital Promise” Initiative
The White House and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the launch of "Digital Promise," a new national center created by Congress to advance technologies that can transform teaching and learning.
EdTech
Michael Horn Talks Disruptive Technology at WA Ed Innovation Forum
This week, Michael Horn, the co-founder and Executive Director of Innosight Institute, discussed the growth and development of disruptive technologies like online learning in education at the Washington Education Innovation Forum, hosted by Robin Lake, in Seattle, Wash.
EdTech
Pearson Acquires Connections Education
Learning company Pearson announced today that it plans to acquire the virtual public school provider Connections Education, formerly known as Connections Academy.
Personalized Learning
What the Connections Acquisition Means
Pearson announced today that it acquired Connections Education, a leading national online learning provider. I know both companies well and think this is a great combination. Connections is another success story for Sterling Partners, backers of Laureate, Sylvan. Peter Cohen, President of Pearson’s School Group, came…
EdTech
Platform-Based School Development
The 1990s brought charter school laws and the New American Schools Development Corporation—both rooted in the standards-movement and based on the hypothesis that there was a better way to organize schools. New Technology High School opened by the Napa School District in 1996. With its first graduating class, it…
Personalized Learning
Why States Should Contract with Multiple Providers
The Internet has improved the public provision of services in a variety of ways and it is beginning to transform public education. The power of personal digital learning suggests that it doesn’t make sense to limit our children’s opportunity to learn to a local school or geographically defined school…
EdTech
10+ Articles Responding to Richtel’s NYT Piece On Classroom Tech
This week, Matt Richtel's article "In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores" on The New York Times received a great deal of hype following Tom Vander Ark's rebuttal "Richtel's Rearview Mirror Misses the Mark" on the Huffington Post and Getting Smart.
Personalized Learning
The Seven Steps to Becoming a 21st Century School or District
Last summer, as I was winding down my eight years as president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I went around the country and met with 30 superintendents, asking them, "What can I do to support your efforts to implement 21st century education in your district?" Together we came up with the idea of creating a professional learning community (PLC) of education leaders committed to 21st century education. A team of us liked the idea so much that earlier this year we launched EdLeader21, a community of education leaders committed to building critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity into their educational system.