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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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Making Tech Work for Kids and Teachers
Advances in technology in the classroom often focus on how it is improving teaching and not learning. Why don't we invite stu...
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Profession(al) Development
The teaching profession as we know it is changing. It is time to redefine the way we think about developing the profession it...
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Three Ring: Bringing Qualitative Work into Focus
Rescue forgotten student work from the bottom of backpacks or hidden in endless stacks of binders—everything is organized s...
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Learning
Deficits Push New Double Bottom Line: More for Less
In November 2010, in his most important speech, Arne Duncan ...
11 months ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
College Completion: Still a Big Deal, So Let’s Make It Easier and Cheaper
The return on investment from American colleges is dropping. But disruptive alternatives—like free—will pop the bubble for third tier institutions. Declining subsidies will convert your favorite state U into a selective private institution. Let’s make sure the massive public subsidy is producing an ROI.
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
What Does Going Digital Mean for the Future of K–12 Assessment?
For the last 15 years we've tried to answer these with inexpensive bubble tests. With far more data, states and districts will have several opportunities in this decade to update policies in each of these areas. Advances in assessment, or more broadly performance data, will fundamentally change how schools are organi...
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
Khan’s Big Contribution Will Be Competency-Based Learning
Carrie Morgridge kicked off the 4th Sharefair at the University of Denver’s Richie Center with a description of the benefits of blended learning. The Morgridge Family Foundation has been a big supporter of DU and the adoption of personalized learning technology by Colorado and Florida schools.
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
Khan Academy: Students Regain Confidence to Tackle Math Challenges
Observing students struggle with these problems suggests a simpler explanation: poor habits fueled by low confidence. Students take a quick glance at this problem and then make a series of careless entries. In the same amount of time, they could have simply done a little counting on the number line and found the correc...
one year ago by Guest Author
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Khan Academy: Learning Habits vs. Content Delivery in STEM Education
Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more. As reform efforts have shifted to technology and online learning, we are still asking questions about ...
one year ago by Guest Author
EdTech
Sal Khan Creates A World-Class Education for Anyone, Anywhere
In a recent video, Salman Khan discusses how he's delivering a world-education to anyone, anywhere through Khan Academy at the Future of State Universities Conference, which was hosted by Governor Jeb Bush, Governor Jim Hunt and Academic Partnerships in Dallas, Texas this October.
one year ago by Getting Smart Staff
