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Do You Know These Innovative Women Leaders Who Are Founding Schools and Making History?

Edsurge

At NewSchools Venture Fund , we invest in teams of educators and entrepreneurs whose bold ideas are reimagining learning. These little girls—in kindergarten through second grade—are learning everything they need to assume their rightful positions in the boardroom, classroom, lab, or wherever their futures might take them. .

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Alan November Shares A Mind Blowing New Idea in Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Book: Who Owns the Learning? Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Tech and Learning magazine. Alan’s most recent book “ Who Owns the Learning? ”

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

” – Thomas Friedman, 2013. Learning objects. Learning portals. Portals to learning object repositories. Perhaps the most powerful of zombies in education technology is the student information system and its monstrous offspring the learning management system. The zombies seem to wither and die.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

New information technologies, so we’re told, must therefore change how we learn – change what we need to know, how we know, how we create knowledge. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. That change, according to these tales, is happening faster than ever before.

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P-Tech Schools: The Remaking of Career, Technical Education

Educator Innovator

Schools are under increasing pressure to design classrooms, curricula, and learning experiences that help students develop the kinds of design, engineering, and creative skills that are a better fit for innovation economies. P-TECH is one of the latest efforts to make schooling and learning more connected to the real world.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The term generally refers to using a wide variety of hands-on activities (such as building, computer programming, and sewing) to support academic learning and the development of a mindset that values playfulness and experimentation, growth and iteration, and collaboration and community.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

And from 2013, by Harvard Business School professor, author of the book The Innovator’s Dilemma , and popularizer of the phrase “disruptive innovation,” Clayton Christensen: “In fifteen years from now, half of US universities may be in bankruptcy. The quotation is from 2012.

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