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The 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...
This 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...
This 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...
This 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...
This Mobl21 document contains comprehensive information on mobile learning:
This guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors, and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists, and staff developers. What unites this diverse group is their interest in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching, and a curiosity about how technology can assist them.
Knowsley Council is committed to creating a world-class education system with 21st-Century Learning Environments at the heart of local communities and Centres for Learning, primary and special schools that are better able to meet the needs of children, young people, and their families while delivering more effective services for children and neighborhoods.
Knowsley Council is committed to creating a world-class education system with 21st-Century Learning Environments at the heart of local communities and Centres for Learning, primary and special schools that are better able to meet the needs of children, young people, and their families while delivering more effective services for children and neighborhoods.
Knowsley Council is committed to creating a world-class education system with 21st-Century Learning Environments at the heart of local communities and Centres for Learning, primary and special schools that are better able to meet the needs of children, young people, and their families while delivering more effective services for children and neighborhoods. This Knowsley document contains a delivery framework for pedagogy, highlighting the principles against which proposed curriculum models for the new learning centers can be tested for fitness of purpose.
Knowsley Council is committed to creating a world-class education system with 21st-Century Learning Environments at the heart of local communities and Centres for Learning, primary and special schools that are better able to meet the needs of children, young people, and their families while delivering more effective services for children and neighborhoods. This Knowsley document contains info on regional community facilities and access to services.
Drawing on two years of work with over 40 schools, this pamphlet is the third publication from the Learning Futures program. Here Learning Futures examine what schools need to do in order to increase the authentic engagement of their students, and present findings that argue that schools themselves need to become more engaged–as learning communities, in learning outside of school, in partnership with local communities and parents–if they are to see deeper engagement in their students.
In the context of a new austerity in public spending, refurbishment work of some kind will comprise a signi?cant part of the U.K.’s new coalition government’s building program. This guide reflects the British Council for School Environments proposal that reinventing existing school buildings can help enhance learning outcomes and create environments that are both comfortable and inspirational.
