Revolutionizing Education – Course Design
Note: This is the second in our series on Revolutionizing Education. In the first article we looked at Sal Khan and the Khan Academy. Join us as we continue looking at revolutionizing education through curriculum development. In this article, we begin identifying the levers that can be used to revolutionize education and give ideas that can be implemented to help make changes. A special thanks is in order to Pollinate Ventures for identifying many of these levers. One of the key ideas identified in our study with the Girard and Pollinate Foundations, was the idea of the coverage teaching...
Read MoreRevolutionizing Education – Interview with Sal Khan
Over the past nine months Shawn and I have been involved in a project with the Girard and Pollinate Foundations focusing on how schools can radically transform themselves to improve student learning and teaching methods. It is our belief that the incremental movement that education as a whole experiences, is similar to a snail’s pace and that the world outside is changing and adapting at a far faster pace. This disparity is continuing to increase student’s disconnect between learning and the concept of school. Over the next few weeks, we will share much of our research and provide...
Read MoreCCSA Conference 2011
The California Charter Schools Association 2011 Conference has just concluded. The 2011 conference was the biggest event yet and hosted a wide variety of speakers and events. Here are some brief notes and observations regarding the events (more posts and interviews are on the way). Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was awarded the Hart Vision Elected Official of the Year Award. Mayor Villaraigosa has been a passionate advocate of the charter school movement. He oversees the Partnership for LA Schools, which runs ten of the lowest-performing schools in the district and is seeing...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: February 14 – 20
Unfettered by Stuff – or “Why I don’t lug stuff home every night”, David Andrade Understand RSS and make the Web Work for You, Jeff Utecht Will the Next Revolution be Stroomed?, Ted Grasty Open Courseware on Every Campus by 2016?, Dennis Carter Teaching Twitter To Higher Education Colleagues, Ed...
Read MoreEDBuzz Goes Mobile
Over the last year we have noticed the significant increase in mobile web use. According to Techcrunch mobile consumption of the Internet has increased by 110% in the U.S. and 148% worldwide. With the growing number of mobile users and our desire to meet viewers where it is most convenient, we were unhappy with the browsing experience our site offered on mobile devices. We are happy to announce that EDBuzz has gone Mobile! Today we finished optimizing our site for use on most popular mobile devices. While traditional browser users will not notice a difference, mobile users will receive a...
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