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Building a Digital Depository

Benjamin Riley explains exciting times for education entrepreneurship, technology and the policy ecosystem that surrounds the...

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NCLB: Under the Bus, But Not a Total Loss

Today AEI released a report, NCLB sanctions: Tests taken, lessons learned. The authors found that “School accountability ...

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Common Core: A Platform for Equity & Innovation

The Common Core is giant platform for innovation for American education. The Common Core and the digital learning revolution...

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Simple Tech Solutions for Creating Community on Campus

When students are involved in on-campus activities, they are more engaged in their courses. A few simple tech tools that you...

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The Essence of Startup Communities

Brad Feld discussed a few points from his new book Startup Communities at the New Jersey Tech Meetup last month and what it t...

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How Digital Learning is Boosting Achievement

There are hundreds of solid pieces of evidence about digital learning and that's all rear view mirror evaluation. The potential of personalized learning technology suggests the potential going forward is much greater that what we’ve seen to date. When technology is used to extend, personalize and transform learning,...

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Every State Needs A Leadership & Empowerment Agenda

While states and districts are trying to figure out how to blend schools they should let student blend their own learning. It’s time for every state to build a digital learning leadership agenda and an empowerment agenda.

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Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Changes the World One Summer Science Video at a Time

Many teachers remember the excitement on kids faces when the ...

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Blended Schools & Tools Take a look at international edtech. ...

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Strategic Philanthropy Is Making Foundations Less Responsive

Strategic philanthropy made the sector less responsive, less entrepreneurial, and more risk averse. A vibrant economy that promotes opportunity and equity requires a vibrant startup sector--both return seeking and impact seeking. It’s time for strategic philanthropy 2.0--a basket of more dynamic, risk-taking, entre...

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3 Shifts to the Paradigm of Online Professional Development

Professional development has been something that is “done to” educators for far too long. We are in an era where teachers are rapidly moving to social media for learning while recognizing the irrelevance of traditional continuing education courses. The need for job-embedded, project-based, and learner-centered solu...

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Geekonomics: What Did Those Stats Reveal?

Adopt this easy rule: Every hour of consumption (watching videos, looking at images, surfing Facebook) is matched with an hour of production.

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