Technology can personalize learning
Brookings is hosting a conference — available live online — on education technology. Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time, a new Brookings study by Darrell West,...
View ArticleKhan Academy goes to school
Salman Khan’s free math and science videos have moved from YouTube to classrooms, reports the New York Times, which looks at a San Jose charter school that’s using Khan’s lessons — and student-tracking...
View ArticleLet adolescents grow up
Let’s give adolescents a chance to grow up, writes Ted Kolderie of the Center for Policy Studies in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Adolescence “infantilizes” young people, he writes, citing...
View ArticleTime-tech swaps can raise teacher pay
Blended learning can personalize instruction — and enable teachers to earn at least 20 percent more, write Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel on Education Next. In Time-Technology Swaps, excellent...
View ArticleIf you could design a school …
“If you could design a school what would it look like?” In Milpitas, a middle-class district near San Jose, Superintendent Cary Matsuoka asked teachers and principals how they’d redesign their schools,...
View ArticleBlend, flip, disrupt
In Blend, flip, disrupt, I report on a a Blended Learning in K-12 conference at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. When she introduced Khan Academy videos and quizzes to her sixth-grade math students,...
View ArticleRocketship tries Blended Learning 2.0
Old-fashioned blended learning uses the rotation model: Half the class may be watching Khan Academy videos and taking quizzes geared to their performance level, while the teacher works with the other...
View Article‘Lots of different ways to educate’ kids
‘Kids Are Different: There Are Lots of Different Ways to Educate Them,’ Glenn Harlan Reynolds (aka Instapundit) tells Julia Ryan in The Atlantic. In The New School, Reynolds predicts “the future of...
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Learning from disruption
Rocketship charter schools experimented with 100-student “flexible” classrooms, then returned to its more conventional — and very successful — blended-learning model. Was it just a failure? asks...
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‘Personalized learning’ helps in math, reading
“Personalized learning” appears to be raising math and reading scores at 23 schools, according to “interim research” by Rand for the Gates Foundation. Teacher Pete Knight works with students at an...
View ArticleStudy: Blending boosts math scores
Urban middle school students improved significantly after using a personalized, blended-learning math program, according to a new study from Teachers College, Columbia, reports Ed Week. Low achievers...
View ArticleDisrupt and personalize
Online learning can personalize instruction — and make it less boring — says Michael Horn in a Reason TV interview. Horn is co-author of the new book, Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve...
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Techies try home, un and micro schooling
Parker and Simon Cook are “unschooled” in Berkeley. Credit: Timothy Archibald/Wired Homeschooling — and unschooling — are attracting well-to-do techies, reports Jason Tanz on Wired. Chris Cook never...
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How to blend tech and teachers
Liz Arney’s new guidebook, Go Blended!, shows “how schools should think about using technology and blended learning to better serve students,” writes Andrew J. Rotherham of Bellwether Education...
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When computers pick lessons
A Teach to One math classroom at a New York City middle school. A computer system decides which students need which math lessons at Boody Intermediate School in Brooklyn, writes Nichole Dobo on the...
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RAND: Personalized learning leads to progress
In schools using technology to personalize learning, students made greater academic progress than a control group, according to a RAND study for the Gates Foundation. Students with the lowest prior...
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How to spend Zuck’s bucks
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan celebrated the birth of their daughter by pledging to give 99 percent of their wealth — $45 billion or so — to worthy causes, such as “advancing...
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Education disrupted?
Students Fiona (left) and Lina do a lesson on their iPad Minis at the first AltSchool in San Francisco. Photo: Michael Short, San Francisco Chronicle AltSchool is opening very tiny, very expensive...
View ArticlePersonalized ed raises privacy concerns
Digital software can personalize instruction for students working at different levels and speeds. But fears about the privacy and security of students’ personal information are on the rise, reports...
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No bells, many choices
Forensic investigator Ryan Andrews shows students how to calculate the angle of impact of bloodstains. Salt Lake City’s Innovations Early College High School uses personalized learning to put...
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