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...
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Read MoreInverting Learning
I came across an interesting article recently on a unique approach to teaching called “inverted learning.” According to the author, Meris Stansbury, this instructional model involves “mak[ing] the students the focus of the class, not the teacher, by having students watch a lecture at home and then apply the lesson with the teacher in the classroom.” Inverting learning requires shifting certain learning activities traditionally completed in the classroom to home. According to Stansbury, “Students can absorb the material as homework and then practice what ...
Read MoreThink About This!
In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, and material....
Read MoreApple’s iPad
From all accounts, it appears certain that later today, Apple will announce a tablet based platform. Dubbed the Apple tablet or iPad by some, the tablet will have 3G, and iPhone apps will be compatible. Apparently major content providers from media to game companies have been hard at work developing content for the launch and have all but confirmed these details. Gizmodo has chronicled an exhaustive look at the rumors leading up to today’s expected announcement. Here is a Sports Illustrated mock-up on a tablet by Time, inc. that really demonstrates the potential power. Imagine the...
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