GETideas.org is the incubator where education leaders can develop their professional learning networks. This community provides tools, research, and inspiration to help transform learning institutions. The primary goal of GETideas.org is to bring people together to exchange ideas towards solving education challenges. During the last few months, GETideas.org has been specifically exploring four themes particularly relevant to today’s school leaders. These themes have been: -The Cultivation of Leadership-The Design of…
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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April 23, 2013In this report for the PBS News Hour, correspondent John Merrow of Learning Matters showcases a school district in Kentucky that has committed to a project-based learning approach in its effort to improve educational outcomes for their students.
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April 19, 2013This is the first of two new reports from Project Tomorrow using data from their widely heralded 2012 Speak Up Survey. Part 1 starts out stating the importance of digital considerations in education, “We are at a cosmic moment in K-12 education. The conflux of the impeding implementation of Common Core State Standards (and other new state standards) with the advent of new, high quality, educationally rigorous and innovative digital tools…
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April 18, 2013EdWeek has published a thoughtful and moving opinion piece by Lorraine Bellon Cella, Superintendent of the Edgewater NJ schools. Ms. Cells revisits her high school days, recounting how a young and innovative teacher impacted her life as a student. Noting the qualities that made this teacher great aren’t necessarily quantifiable, she then goes on to question the value of current teacher evaluation systems, “My greatest worry is that teachers will…
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April 17, 2013Reknown education experts Stephanie Pace Marshall and James Paul Gee recently engaged in a conversation on the future of schools at National Louis University. Stephanie will be joining us live during a Google Hangout on Air for GETideas.org on April 24, 2013! Click here for more details.
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April 16, 2013On April 12, 2013, educational technology advocacy groups including the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SEDTA), and SIIA’s Ed Tech Government Forum held the Washington Educational Technology Policy Summit. At this meeting, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel noted that the requirements for Common Core online assessments require better broadband connections. E-Rate was originally put into action…
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April 16, 2013A new report in Digital Learning Now’s Smart Series calls attention to America’s school finance system. Complete with an infographic, executive summary and full report, this new resource points out that many of today’s students are opting for blended and online learning environments and that these models will be potentially inaccessible to the mainstream unless funding options are improved. The authors of this report (John Bailey, Carri Schneider, Tom Vander…
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April 15, 2013Silicon Valley understands the value of computer science, and more related education initiatives seem to be emerging from Northern California, perhaps because of an increased emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in the United States. Previously, GETIdeas.org has pointed to resources such as Stanford’s Makers in Residence program, SparkFun’s National Tour, Code.org and Code Summer+. Now comes an initiative geared towards the elementary school set, Tynker, a…
