5 notable trends in school innovation
Recently I told a group of high school students that my research investigates how schools are changing during the pandemic. One student’s unprompted reaction in the Zoom chat…
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3 practices that support innovation
Don't let the headline mislead you: This story won't tell you how to innovate. Still, being open and willing to take a risk or two can put your…
Here’s how to scale school innovation
In a new TED talk, Adam Frankel, executive director of Digital Promise, discusses how technology can help bring personalized learning and school innovation to scale.
How the government can drive school innovation
Most of the funding and decision-making around education in this country occur at the state and local levels. The federal government has limited ability to effect change. That…
Social think tank on innovation in education
I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in Dell's "Social Think Tank" on Innovation in Education today., says Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education.
Forum explores how to spur school innovation
Innovation was a key theme of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Jan. 25, and it also was the theme of a recent forum in Washington,…
NSBA’s final ed-tech conference explores school innovation
Reflecting the toll that the struggling economy has taken on education, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) said its 24th annual Technology + Learning (T+L) conference, held last…
$3.4B for 9 states, D.C. in Race to the Top grants
More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S.…
Cracks in school innovation fund might present problems
Just days before the U.S. Department of Education released applications for the $650 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund on March 8, education technology researchers and developers expressed…