The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2018
What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?
Bryan Alexander
MARCH 25, 2016
We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researching its history. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.
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The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 20, 2014
Magnets Join Race to Replace Transistors in Computers Creating an Ever-Flexible Center for Tech Innovation Canvas Network Announces Minecraft MOOCs and App in a Suite of 15 MOOCs for K-12 Teachers, Students and Parents MIT Team Turns 6.9 More information at [link]. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner?
Educator Innovator
OCTOBER 7, 2015
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others’ perspectives. In this final installment of our series, we focus on speaking and listening. Podcasting.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
APRIL 20, 2015
Wednesday, April 29th at 4pm Common Sense Media Webinar: Helping Students Make Good Digital Decisions with Digital Compass , Join Common Sense Education for a webinar to celebrate the launch of their newest free education resource, Digital Compass. A strong push for unfettered play and free time for children will also be presented.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
According to David Callahan, editor of the website Inside Philanthropy and author of the 2017 book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy , philanthropists have more power than ever before, and “that influence is likely to grow far greater in coming decades.” Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 16, 2013
There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.
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