article thumbnail

How a $5 lesson can help districts avoid a multi-million freefall when ESSER funding expires

Education Elements

In 2009, Professor Tina Seelig looked over her class of Stanford business students and assigned a simple challenge. Working in groups, the students were given $5 and 2 hours to make the highest possible return on their money. They had a week to plan their strategy with almost unlimited creativity.

Groups 180
article thumbnail

[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Hume Foundation was the first funder of Innosight Institute’s Education Practice, the think tank established by Clayton Christensen as well as Michael Horn to promulgate disruptive solutions to both education and health care challenges, and I became a founding board member.

article thumbnail

In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Venture funding in the edtech sector has increased from $385 million in 2009 to an expected $2 billion this year. We hired an outside consultant -- Education Elements -- who specializes in, and works with our teachers on, the pedagogical aspects of personalized learning models (i.e. blended learning).

EdTech 120