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TEDxNYED 2013 Inside-Outside

April 27, 2013

TEDxNYED is a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education. The theme of this year’s TEDxNYED is Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside...

The 2013 School Leadership Summit

March 28, 2013

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the inaugural virtual and worldwide School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March...

Designing Modern Learning Environments: Design Thinking for Education Leaders Hangout

February 20, 2013

GETideas.org seeks to help education leaders understand the impact of environment on learning and to leverage design when attempting to transform education systems. This Google...

Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC)

February 11 - February 13, 2013

Midwest Education Technology Conference February 11-13, 2013 St. Charles Convention CenterSt. Louis, Missouri http://2013.metcconference.org/...

U.S. Higher Education Leaders Call for Bold Action on Attainment

January 24, 2013

In an open letter released yesterday, leading U.S. college and university presidents called upon their colleagues to make retention and completion a critical priority to stem...

Bringing It All Together: Empowering Education Leaders to Innovate Hangout

January 30, 2013

GETideas.org hosts this GooglePlus hangout to engage with noted thought leaders on how to help educators innovate. The discussion includes a dialogue on how innovation in...

Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

January 23, 2013

In an arrangement with commercial company Academic Partnerships, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone...

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State Spending on U.S. Higher Education Rebounds in Most States after Years of Decline

January 22, 2013

After falling nearly 11% since the 2008 fiscal year, state appropriations for U.S. higher education are on the rise in most states. Long-term effects of...

The 2013 School Leadership Summit

March 28, 2013

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the inaugural virtual and worldwide School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March 28th, 2013. This free conference will be held online and will be a unique chance to participate in a collaborative global conversation on school leadership with presentations by your peers. The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to leadership in a changing…
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PBS Survey Finds Teachers are Embracing Digital Resources to Propel Student Learning

February 7, 2013

In honor of Digital Learning Day (February 6, 2013), PBS LearningMedia released a survey indicating that teachers correlate educational benefits to technology use in classrooms. Nearly 75% of all teachers surveyed indicated that “technology enables them to reinforce and expand on content, to motivate students to learn, and to respond to a variety of learning styles.” According to this survey, teachers are indicating that they have even more access to…
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Augmented Reality App Makes Japanese Newspaper More Engaging for Kids

February 7, 2013

The creative agency Dentsu has created an augmented reality app for a Japanese newspaper that allows readers’ children to interact with content at their level. When articles are scanned with this app, kid appropriate language appears along with animations and other multimedia designed to appeal to children. This is an interesting way to bring newspaper reading into homes and engage families around their mobile devices. Can you think of other…
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Can Online Anonymity Be A Good Thing?

January 29, 2013

Listen (or read) this piece from NPR’s Tell Me More series entitled “Social Me”. Harvard Berkman Center associate Rey Junco discusses his research on “disinhibition”, a term describing how people may be more likely to say or do certain things because they are online. Junco goes on to say that disinhibition is not necessarily a negative thing, and it often allows positive classroom learning relationships to be established that are…
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New U.S. Congressional Caucus Focuses on 21st-Century Skills Education

Source: THE Journal

October 15, 2012

The U.S. Congress has created a new caucus for the purpose of keeping policy makers up to date on the importance of 21st-century skills education as students prepare for college and careers. The Congressional 21st Century Skills Caucus, along with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), will help the education system provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need to compete in a global economy that demands innovation.The initial briefing…
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P21 Receives Hewlett Foundation Grant to Support 21st-Century Citizenship

Source: The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

August 14, 2012

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)–a leading U.S. organization advocating for 21st-century readiness for every student–is embarking on a two-year initiative to highlight the importance of civic engagement for students thanks to a $200,000 grant from Hewlett Foundation. The grant will provide two-year support of P21’s newest initiative on 21st-century citizenship. P21 aims to partner with leading civic learning groups to show that the 21st-century skills essential for workforce…
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Australia’s New Civics Curriculum Calls for Students to Be Citizens of the Web

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

June 5, 2012

Australia’s students will be encouraged to use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs as study tools as part of the new Civics and Citizenship national curriculum. The draft curriculum was released for public consultation yesterday. If it is adopted, students would be taught skills including research, analysis and synthesis, collaborative problem-solving and decision-making, and communication. Communication skills would include “using both traditional and social media and the Internet in socially constructive ways as communication…
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OFSTED: ICT Teaching Poor in English Secondary Schools

Source: BBC News

December 14, 2011

The teaching of information and communications technology (ICT) is inadequate in a fifth of secondary schools in England reports the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services, and Skills (OFSTED). Inspectors said teachers lacked the expertise and confidence to teach more demanding topics properly. Of the 74 secondary schools visited between 2008 and 2011, achievement was good or outstanding in just 27 of the schools, satisfactory in 33, and inadequate in 14. OFSTED…
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