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Featured Thought Leaders
GETideas.org features Thought Leaders who share their personal perspectives to inspire transformational change on topics such as leadership, professional development, education policy, educational technology, school design, media literacy, and transmedia. Read the blog and comment to connect with today's leading thinkers.
Tech-driven Innovation
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A Hunger for Change: The Charter for Compassion
by Marilyn Turkovich | May 7, 2013Compassion is a response to suffering—our own, and to the pain of others. The word comes from the Latin meaning to co-suffer. Compassion is noticing pain, feeling it... more
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Is the App Culture Killing Innovation?
by Katherine Burdick | April 10, 2013The iPhone launched in 2007 and though it may be hard to remember, there was no availability to distribute or run any third party applications. However, soon after... more
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Professional Development for Sustainable Technology Use
by Alice Barr | April 2, 2013There is plenty of discussion about preparing our students to become innovative, digital, and global citizens, so how are we helping teachers teach those students? A Pew Internet... more
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Removing Obstacles to STEM Education Critical to U.S. Vitality
by Mohammad H. Qayoumi | March 19, 2013Embracing technology is critically important, as 21st-century jobs will increasingly require an educated and highly skilled workforce. Over the next 10 years, 5 out of 8 new jobs... more
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Teachers get no respect. Can the internet change that?
by Pano Anthos | February 15, 2013Online learning isn’t going anywhere. According to the Sloan Consortium/Chronicle of Higher Education Survey, 70% of college presidents say online learning is a critical piece to their university’s... more
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Bringing Online Education for Each Child in the Bottom Billion… Today
by Rupal Nayar | February 13, 2013“Anda sombong.” (You are arrogant, in Bahasa Indonesia) Two very simple yet seemingly harsh words addressed at me by an Indonesian orphanage teacher, little did I know about... more
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Will Study Abroad Improve Cross-Cultural Education to Drive Innovation?
by Mike Miller | February 11, 2013It’s a simple question with seemingly endless answers. However, I believe students come for one reason and one reason only… to chase his or her dreams. Somewhere deep... more
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School Technology the Driver for Reimagining Learning
by Keith Krueger | January 31, 2013Technology plays an integral part in all aspects of school life, from its use to engage students, to a vehicle to connect teachers from across the district, to... more
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What Can Digitization Do for Learning?
by nkhosla | January 24, 2013“What can digitization do for learning?” That is the fundamental question that has driven much of the efforts to innovate at CK-12. It stimulates a much more intriguing... more
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How to Help Each Student Learn from Teachers around the World
by Ariel Braunstein | January 23, 2013When we first began to explore the idea of launching Knowmia, we talked extensively to teachers, administrators, parents, and students to immerse ourselves in the key issues and... more
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The Best Way to Surround a Child? Link Arms!
by Rudi Lewis | January 22, 2013Personalized learning is in the spotlight around the globe, as vendors race to be known as THE personalized learning solution. But teaching to the needs of each student won’t... more
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PenPal Exchange Helps Students Squash Red-Blue State Divisions
by Michael Bernstein | January 17, 2013When Mackenzie Sweitzer, a high school senior, introduced herself to her pen pal, she described where she lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Hudson,... more
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YouTube’s Role in the Ed-Tech Revolution
by David Schnurman | January 15, 2013We are in the beginning of the biggest teaching revolution since the formation of the modern education system. There is no doubt that the main factor fueling this... more
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Ed-Tech Content in Spanish: The Story of a Journey
by Catalina Valenzuela | January 15, 2013Since the beginning of TECHcetera, education issues and topics were paramount. I was invited to contribute as the education-technology writer after having worked in a high-tech school in... more
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Today’s World Doesn’t Leave Much to the Imagination…or Does It?
by Anne Aherne-Daly | January 14, 2013Forty-six choices of shampoo, 28 choices of toothpaste, 18 different garden hoses … and then there’s different types of technology that are all starting to do the same... more
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The Globalization of One-to-One Instruction
by Ethan Fieldman | January 14, 2013I’ll admit it – in a previous life, I made a living as a professional tutor. It was a good job, and I had the chance to work... more
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Sharing Paths Accelerates the Learning Process
by Evonne Heyning | January 10, 2013When I set out to find the big levers that shift our awareness rapidly, there was some sense that invention and mass collaboration would play a part in... more
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Consumption vs. Creation, A New Model for Learning
by Dustin Haisler | January 9, 2013The edutech field is awash with new technologies that make the current approach to teaching easier, digital, and shareable. We have platforms that connect learners and educators, digital... more
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ICTs and the Future of Education Quality in Latin America
by Gabriel Sánchez Zinny | November 26, 2012The socioeconomic transformation that Latin America underwent in the past decade has been deep and remarkable. The expanding middle class and increased purchasing power in countries such as... more
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Building a Worldwide Community Initiative for Dubbing and Translating Online Educational Videos
by Robert Farazin | November 20, 2012When most people first experienced the Internet, it was in English. And while it is natural for English speakers, with our somewhat ingrained arrogance when it comes to... more
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A Big Project: Bring It or Sing It
by Dara Barlin | November 19, 2012A Big Project will launch a free technology-based game called Bring It or Sing It on December 20, 2012, (the day of A Big Project’s Global Arts and Music... more
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Enhancing Early Childhood Education with Mobile Phones
by Christelle Scharff | November 16, 2012The number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide has doubled in the past five years. This figure is expected to approach 7 billion in 2016, with rapid, continuous growth... more
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Reach the World: Student-centered PBL via 21st-Century Tech
by Tonia Lovejoy | November 14, 2012Reach the World’s GeoTech Club at the Rafael Hernandez Dual Language School in the Bronx is a prime example of student-centered project-based learning (PBL) in science, technology, engineering, math, and... more
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It Takes a Community to Help Educators Become Innovators
by Barbara Kurshan | November 9, 2012If we’re going to improve student achievement, we have to embrace innovation and the sometimes-radical techniques and outside-the-box approaches to teaching. Innovation is happening every day in classrooms... more