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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 publish high quality written products.

6 days ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Students Shine Through Digital Portfolios

Voyager Academy Charter School in Durham, NC is a project-based learning school that currently has about 1,250 students across grades K-11. We started with 320 students in grades 4-7 in 2007 and have grown exponentially. This upcoming school year we will add 12th grade and complete our growth.

one month ago by Toni Shellady

EdTech

Why Google Is The Most Important Learning Tool Ever Invented

Tom Vander Ark is an edu-futurist par excellence. He's chair of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, author of the new Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World, and an investor in startup technology and entrepreneurship school General Assembly (see this month's Life in Beta)...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

Infographic: Get More Out of Google

Effective researching skills used to be wrapped up in knowledge about libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, and book indexes. Today, it's all about the Google search. Yet surprisingly, not many students today are well versed in effective searching strategies when it comes to the web. HackCollege, a blog focused on impro...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

Learning

The race to platform education

Across the full spectrum of education – primary, secondary, and higher – we are witnessing a race to develop platforms for content, learning, teaching, and evaluation. As liberating as the web is, tremendous centralization of control is occurring in numerous spaces: Google in search/advertising/Android, Amazon in b...

one year ago by Guest Author

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Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is igniting a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century economy. Excellence in Action, the organization’s flagship initiative, is working with lawmakers and policymakers to advance education reform across America. Learn more at www.Exce...

How to Teach Online With Screensharing and Screencasts

Sharing ideas visually is no new concept. A hundred years ago, teachers used chalkboards. Then, with the invention of the smelly, dry erase marker, we upgraded our boardrooms and classrooms with shiny whiteboards. Then along came old fashion projectors, and we wrote on clear plastic, shining the ideas up on a pull-down...

one year ago by Mike Shumake

How to Use Google Docs to Collect Contact Information from Students and Parents

In our last article, we addressed the importance of varied and constant contact between teacher and student as well as teacher and parent. In today's article, we are going to get into the nuts and bolts of gathering the contact information.

one year ago by Mike Shumake