The Weekly Update: April 9 – April 15
Here’s what caught our eye this week and we think you might find interesting… Academic Redshirting– Joanne Jacobs Three Trends that Will Shape the Future of Curriculum– Mind/Shift The Benefits of...
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Here’s what caught our eye this week and we think you might find interesting… How Machine-Based Tutoring Will Disrupt Human Tutors–Disrupting Class Loose Canons–Core Knowledge Blog Not Everyone Is Jumping on the Banned Wagon–The Innovative Educator How Much Does Blended Learning Cost?–the Journal E-Textbooks, What’s the Rush?–Linking and Thinking on...
Read MoreRevolutionizing 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...
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