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EdTech 10: Storm Before Summer

After a hot beginning of the week in Phoenix, a rainy day in Seattle, your substitute EdTech conductor is reporting live from Akron--and who wouldn't want to make a Spring Break trip to Akron?! It’s now the storm before the calm of summer as Spring Breaks around the country come to an end.

one month ago by Caroline Vander Ark Davis

Learning

The Learning Resources That Liberated a Family

In my previous post, I wrote about the school experience I wish for my own children. Today I am going to write about how as a family we have taken advantage of local and distant learning resources that allow us to treat education as a set of “platform services” that we can use to create a customized learning exper...

3 months ago by Marie Bjerede

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FLVS Offers Leadership & Professional Development Training for Online & Blended Learning

Florida Virtual School (FLVS) plans to offer a two-day Virtual Leadership Training (VLT) workshop April 25-26, 2012 to give school administrators expert feedback and training on the blueprint of its award-winning virtual school program. The FLVS Professional Learning Team also plans to offer FLVS Professional Developme...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Online Learning Provides Mastery-Based Learning for Students

“When I tuck my children into bed each night and take the laptops off their beds, I see that they were recently looking at Civil War photos on the National Archives website, playing with a pyramid maze on the British Museum website, or translating their names into hieroglyphs,” says Kelly Gutensohn, a parent of ten...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Uniting Online Learning and Self-Directed Learning – A New Relationship

The concept of self-directed learning has long fascinated researchers in the field of education for quite some time. Becoming a self-directed learner is found to be most important as we develop into adults. It is often cited as being one of the most important functions of education. However, research has shown that the...

one year ago by Guest Author

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Digital Learning Now!

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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Florida Virtual Schools Increases Its Online Course Offerings

Florida Virtual School (FLVS) announced today seven new course offerings this fall, adding to its catalog of more than 110 free online courses for Florida students. New courses include Guitar 1, AP Art History, AP Human Geography, French 1, Sociology, Journalism and Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications for high...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Take Another Look at Colorado Online Results

One of Colorado's largest online school splashed the news this last week revealing high turnover rates and poor academic performance at GOAL Academy. But it's worth looking more closely at academic results and problems with the school finance system before jumping to conclusions.

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff