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Jen Robert's Classroom in the Cloud

Jen Roberts is an amazing high school English teacher. She encourages her students to use mobile apps to collaborate and publ...

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It’s Time for The Next Big Advance: Comparable Growth Measures

The most important next step in the shift to personal digital learning is the need for comparable growth measures for individ...

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CEOs Want Hard-Working Decision-Making Team Players

A survey of chief executives indicates that 92% say education is very or the most important national competitiveness issue. ...

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EdTech 10: PD and Pilgrims

When you’re the parent of a 5 year old, you hear lots of jokes. Maybe you’ve heard this one - “If April Showers bring M...

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Think Outside the Box for Las Vegas Schools

The Getting Smart team led a school design workshop for The Executive Leadership Academy, hosted by The Public Education Foun...

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Infographic: The Rise of the AP

Tom Vander Ark often says that one of the best ...

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A Lesson In Funding 1:1 Access From Spearfish, South Dakota

Steve Morford is the principal of Spearfish High School in Spearfish, South Dakota—a 1:1 teaching and learning environment. With close to seven years of experience leading a 1:1 school, Mr. Morford has a lot of wisdom to share, especially when it comes to financing improved student access to technology.

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DreamBox Learning: Intelligently Adaptive, Engaging & Motivating Math

DreamBox is a K-5 adaptive math product widely used in US elementary schools. Adaptive means that the program captures every decision a student makes while working in the software and adjusts the student’s learning path in real time, maintaining just the right degree of difficulty and no gaps in understanding. Dream...

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SCE Launches Digital Learning Challenge

SCE, a Chicago-based social investment organization, launched a “Digital Learning Challenge” by inviting letters of inquiry that could lead to up to $250,000 in grants. The announcement is worth reading just because it is an interesting premise--that shifting even a portion of the out-of-school media time of low in...

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Changing the Economics of Higher Education

Sal Khan sees a mismatch of expectations in higher education between institutions and some consumers. He thinks open learning and skills certification will grow in importance. A transformation of higher ed is takin place in four categories: super low-cost post-sec, competency-based credits, job certification, and deg...

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Digital Learning Now! is a national campaign to advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment to better prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers.

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Parents: Make Learning a Priority This Summer!

This summer, (while making sure your kids also spend plenty of time in the great outdoors) take advantage of the countless learning opportunities available online.

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Urban Elementary Students Publish Their Own Math E-textbook

Jon Smith, or @theipodteacher as I’ve come to know him, caught my attention on Twitter this week. Students in Mr. Smith’s sixth grade classroom at Gibbs Elementary in Ohio’s Canton City Schools just published their own math textbook, released just days ago on iTunes!

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