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(excerpt) I’m betting on social learning platforms as a lever for improvement at scale in education. Instead of a classroom as the primary organizing principle, social networks will become the primary building block of learning communities (both formal and informal). Smart recommendation engines will queue personalized content. Tutoring, training, and collaboration tools will be applications
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(excerpt) Learn360, an interactive media-on-demand service for the K-12 educational market, is enabling educators to maintain continuous learning in spite of a potential widespread outbreak of H1N1 and other flu viruses. This initiative is helping school districts comply with the U.S. Department of Education’s recent mandate to minimize academic disruptions should their schools be faced
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Zonebee is the information literacy equivalent of a math teacher who says, “Be sure to show all your work.” It’s a web-based tool that lets you preserve a record of how you research a subject, and along the way helps you challenge and refine your assumptions. With such a tool, you could teach an entire
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I’m delighted to report that my town, Westport, CT, threw out their algebra books and built their own online math lessons. According to The New York Times, Westport’s school system felt that existing textbooks zoom through too much material too fast, which results in superficial understanding of just about nothing. By creating their own lessons,
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A recent report on online education for the U.S. Education Department suggests that some students may be better with online rather than classroom teaching. Here are some excerpts from the report: Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.
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