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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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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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Learning
Why Standards-Based Gradebooks & What Next?
Standards-Based grade books can help ensure quality instruction and assessments for our students as long as there is a level of flexibility and rigor
2 years ago by Andrew Miller
EdTech
Standards-Based Grade Books
A new crop of learning platforms and gradebooks make it easier to track student progress against standards.
2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark
EdTech
Teacher spotlight: Mr. E
Ted Edinger, an elmentary school art teacher, posts at Art with Mr. E and has a fantastic list of online art resources. This public school teacher is in the vanguard of the digital learning revolution.
2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff
Learning
Reading List
two dozen classic books on leading, learning, teaching, race, poverty, and calling
2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark
EdTech
Ticket to Teach
DFER released Ticket to Teach today "for the next generation of educators—an “all hands on deck” effort between government, higher education, and the private sector—to create a new social contract with teachers that couples higher expectations and professionalization with commensurate pay, support, and prestige...
2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark
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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.
EdTech
3 Blogs, 3 Resources & 3 Sources
9 cool things today: open content, great blogs, good TV
2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
Blend don’t Cram
Cramming computers in to existing 50 minute periods won't help much; we need to rethink and redesign school to make bigger connections for kids.
2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark
