Teachers Know Best
This research project’s goal is to bring the perspectives of teachers to developers who are creating digital tools for the classroom. Moving from anecdotes of what digital instructional tools teachers want and need, to actual, solid data, will help us to better understand how teachers use digital technology in the classroom, and how these tools… Read More ›
Getting Smart Podcast | The Future of Blended Learning
This podcast looks at the future of blended learning, from the current issue of its multiple definitions to schools leading in next-generation models. There is also an episode on the importance of blended and personalized learning for educators and to the growing importance of having a guiding vision for implementation. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit… Read More ›
Digital Learning Day—Baltimore County Public Schools (Video)
This video shows digital learning in action from the Baltimore County Schools. The schools have a one-to-one initiative known as S.T.A.T. (Students & Teachers Accessing Tomorrow), which aims to provide more than 100,000 students with a personal digital learning device by 2018. The district has combined their staff, teachers, parents, faith and community partners, business leaders,… Read More ›
I’m a Teacher Who Hates Technology—So Let Me Design the Products
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair is a teacher who believes that educational technology is often just something else teachers have to juggle, rather than something they can help create in order to ease professional burdens. From her experience, the technology given to teachers to work within classrooms or to help with professional development does not connect to the… Read More ›
Support From The Start: A 50-State Review of Policies on New Educator Induction and Mentoring
This report, published by the New Teacher Center, details state-by-state policy around support for new teachers. It examines state induction and mentoring program requirements for new teachers and principals, and their mentors. It also looks at state policies on teaching and learning conditions, now a recognized measure of school improvement under the Every Student Succeeds… Read More ›
How Technology Helped Deliver a Taste of Victory to a Struggling Newark School
This article is about the plan to use new instructional models to get better test results for the Quitman Street Renew School. The schools that has used Education Elements’ blended learning models to help improve test results. The journey to personalized learning at Quitman Street Renew School began during the 2013-14 school year. Because over 80 percent… Read More ›
Moving from a Factory Model to…What?
A new campaign, tentatively titled #NextEdStory, is aimed at catalyzing a crowd-sourced, generative discussion among the leaders and converts to student-centered, next generation learning. Next Gen Learning Challenges and Education Reimagined will be hosting a Twitter chat to discuss: While we agree factory school models are a problem, we don’t have a correspondingly clear image or metaphor for what we’re… Read More ›
Learner-Centered Vision Will Frame Next Generation Learning
This article is on the next 20 years of education, framed not by legislation, but by an emerging vision of learner-centered learning. Created by the rise of new tools, new schools, and new informal learning opportunities, a new vision for authentic, engaged, and personalized learning has become widely shared. Supported by nonprofit Convergence, a diverse group… Read More ›
Getting Smart
This blog is a community for news, stories, and leadership on innovations in learning and teaching. Read, watch, and listen to thought-leading perspectives as The Getting Smart Blog features articles on K-12, higher education, and lifelong learning. With over 5,000 blogs, GettingSmart.com has maintained the belief that excellence and equity in education are the most important… Read More ›
Incorporating 21st Century Skills in the Classroom
Students at the Center Hub Video Tool Suite explores how teachers incorporate 21st-century skills into core subject classes. What does it look like in action? How does this help prepare students for college and career, and enrich their core subject learning?
Personalized Learning is Not a Product
This article argues the possible down-sides to personalized learning. For all the hype surrounding so-called “personalized learning,” plenty of skeptics worry that it could do more harm than good—especially within the context of larger trends in academia. They worry that, among other things, personalized learning products will be used not to improve student learning, but… Read More ›
School Counselor Advocacy Letter
The School Counselor Advocacy Letter was created with counselors and is addressed to teachers, school leaders, and other staff. The goal of the letter is to open a conversation about the areas in which counselors can be valuable team members in the changing 21st century learning environment. With a greater emphasis on college and career… Read More ›