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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...

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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...

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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...

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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/...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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    Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    May 2, 2012

    Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online. If it succeeds, the move is likely to have significant consequences for publishers and will boost the international momentum of the open-access movement.  David Willetts (pictured), Britain’s minister for universities and science, made the announcement today at the general meeting of the U.K. Publishers Association…

      Related to: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans
    Source: KQED MindShift
    May 2, 2012

    Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise, as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google Maps. The lesson plans cover the following topics:  Picking the right search terms Understanding search results Searching for evidence for research tasks Narrowing a search…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Professional Development, Teaching & Learning
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    Educators Find Digital Games Promising Tools in the Classroom
    Source: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center
    May 2, 2012

    The Cooney Center today released the first U.S. national aurvey of teachers who are using digital games as part of their students’ instruction. The survey found that digital games are becoming a consistent and valuable part of classroom activities, with 50% of teachers of grades K-8 reporting the use of digital games two or more days a week. In addition, nearly 70% of educators reported that lower-performing students engage more with subject content…

      Related to: Game-based Learning, ICT in Education, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    U.S. Magnets Reimagined as School Choice Option
    Source: Education Week
    May 1, 2012

    The term “magnet school” traditionally referred to schools whose curricula was linked to thematic or content-specific subject matter, whose student bodies remained unbound by neighborhood lines, and whose enrollment process relied on lottery systems. Once considered a solution to desegregate racially divided districts, magnet schools today have been forced to evolve, given legal barriers that bar using race to determine school enrollment and increasing pressure to provide more public school…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    New Web Tool Helps Track Community-College Progress
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    April 30, 2012

    The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center (U.S.) today released the Completion Arch, a free Web-based tool that aggregates and explains public data used to measure community-college students’ progress and success. The Completion Arch pulls from national, state, and project-level data. Among the indicators are enrollment, work-force preparation, and placement.

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Teaching & Learning
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    U.S. Students Want Personalized Learning, Mobile Technology
    Source: eSchool News
    April 30, 2012

    According to Project Tomorrow’s 2011 “Speak Up” survey, more and more students own mobile devices, including tablets, and indicate a strong desire to use those personal learning tools in school to increase collaboration and access to resources. The report, which seeks to examine why technology has “not also penetrated our classrooms” in the same way it has affected students’ personal lives, indicates that personalized learning is on the rise. For example,…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey
    April 30, 2012

    This Project Tomorrow “Speak Up 2011″ report focuses on how K-12 students and parents in the U.S. are “connecting the dots” with digital learning. Key report findings around DIY learning outside of school: 10% of students grade 6-12 have tweeted about an academic topic of interest. 15% have informally tutored other students or found expert help online. 20% have used a mobile app to organize their schoolwork. 30% of middle…

      Related to: ICT in Education, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    TED Launches New Education Platform with Customized Teaching Tools
    Source: eSchool News
    April 25, 2012

    TED continues its expansion into education the the launch of a brand-new TED-Ed website that includes tools to help teachers use video in the classroom. The new platform allows educators to customize videos with follow-up questions and assignments–an initiative that TED says could help power the flipped-learning model.  This second phase of TED-ED follows the launch of a YouTube channel for educational videos. With the new TED-Ed platform, users can take…

      Related to: E-Learning, ICT in Education, Teaching & Learning
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