Written by George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger of Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, Canada, this p
Smarter Balanced Technology Strategy Framework and System Requirements Specifications
December 7, 2012The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s Technology Strategy Framework and System Requirements Specifications provide minimum hardware specifications and basic bandwidth calculations that allow U.S. schools and districts to evaluate which of their existing computers will support the administration of the assessment system...
Building Blocks for Change: What It Means to Be Career Ready
November 12, 2012This document was prepared by the Career Readiness Partner Council, a broad-based coalition of U.S. education, policy, business, and philanthropic organizations that strives to forward a more comprehensive vision for what it means to be career ready. The Council hopes this...
Translation Accommodations Framework for Testing English-Language Learners in Mathematics
October 17, 2012This framework from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium guides translation of math assessments for English-language learners (ELLs). In addition to addressing the diverse linguistics backgrounds of ELLs, the framework proposes several translation accommodations options and makes recommendations for successfully implementing...
Digital Media and Learning
September 18, 2012This information sheet showcases the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning initiative, launched in 2006 to explore how digital media are changing the way young people learn, socialize, communicate, and play. Since 2006, MacArthur has awarded grants totaling more than $100 million for research, development of innovative...
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September 13, 2009
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August 24, 2009
This document is the full description and agenda of a workshop to be held on August 31-Sept. 3, 2009 in Muaritius, Africa for African education policy makers.
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June 25, 2009
The National Science Board of the National Science Foundation submitted a set of recommendations for improving STEM education in the U.S. to the Obama administration on 11 January 2009.
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June 22, 2009
With the advent of text messaging, cell phones, and Internet social networking, the vast majority of teens engage in writing for informal communication. What is the impact of the proliferation of informal e-communication writing on formal writing? This report, a result of a project, sponsored by Pew Internet and American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing, is based on a national survey of teens and their parents about the role of technological writing has on in-school and out-of-school writing.
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June 22, 2009
In this Harvard Business School blog piece, Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn co-authors of Disrupting Class, write in defense of Florida’s Virtual School, which, they argue, would be diminished by legislation currently before the Florida state senate.
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June 22, 2009
A report of the Institute for Research on Education Policy at Stanford University
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June 22, 2009
This IT Knowledge Hub article is a quick overview of the open-source learning management system called Moodle.
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June 22, 2009
In this succinct piece, James Gee discusses the sixteen learning principles in well constructed video games. Gee, the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University.
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