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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
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...
2 months ago by Marie Bjerede
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TEDxManhattan Beach Hosts “Journey to Purpose: Dream. Educate. Thrive” October 13th
TEDxManhattanBeach hosts "Journey to Purpose: Dream. Educate. Thrive." October 13, 2012 at the auditorium of the Manhattan Beach Middle School in Manhattan Beach, Calif. The event seeks to answer the following questions through presentations from experts across several fields of study: How do we increase the odds of fi...
8 months ago by Getting Smart Staff
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Video – Conrad Wolfram: What's Wrong in Math Ed?
Conrad Wolfram talks about math: Why does math in education systems look so different than the actual practice of mathematics in the real world? Again, it's because standards and methods in the system keep the real system of the world from operating in our childrens' minds.
2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff
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What a 12 Year Old Can Teach Us About Learning
Here's a 12 year old student telling adults how they can help children excel.
2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff
