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Why Standardize When We Should Personalize?
Follow up on yesterday's National Journal post with great questions from Chad.
The Best Classroom in the World?
Like many media angles, this media angle lumps together technology discussions in education reform as if they have always been about "just add computers". That's not the case. The use of the best of social web, technology, computing and programs must include, and will always include, the use of great teachers and student-centric learning methodologies.
1:1 Dialog
The education transition from print to digital is complicated. DLC advisors weigh in.
Josh Jarrett: Snr. Program Officer, Gates Foundation
Josh Jarret explains the vision for public education that is being forged by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this interview, he lists some points for how technology can help transform public delivery of education and invites feedback on how that will work.
Tech Improves Learning and Saves Money
Well implemented technology pays off with improved learning, climate, and cost savings.
Vying for Seven State Super Slots November 2
Is ed reform tearing the Democratic Party asunder; seven state super slots up for grabs this November 2; DOE soliciting for opinions; value added teachers in New York; Rhode Island braces for budgeting cutbacks
Maximizing Potential of All Students
Are KIPP Schools really "drill and kill" factories that drive students to exhaustion. Not really, despite contentions that this is what makes some of them so successful. Here is a column from Jay Matthews, via an email from Whitney Tilson, philanthropist and ed reformer.
Advancing a Global Learning Agenda
Arne Duncan is saying that educational advances in other countries do not necessarily equate to an American loss at home, or abroad. Rather, advances and innovations are win-win solutions for an entire global architecture. The Digital Learning Council has a sense of this kind of change coming, and is working hard to help states advance a roadmap to get there.
Content Filtering in a Digital Age
Perhaps because it is taking an intellectual and analytical examination of policy, a recent article fails to mention that there are LMSs on the market now that address privacy and content concerns for students, and they do so in such a way that they give a lot of control and leverage to the teacher, who can choose exactly what and how he or she wants the kids to interact online.