Who are your teachers? New technology for humanity
For those adults working on, writing about, or generally pondering the fate of our education system, “teachers” are thought of as a stakeholder group, a […]
Aug 19, 2014
Topics: Social Capital
Hire education: A new trend that high schools should pay attention to
Last week our Institute’s Michelle R. Weise and Clayton Christensen published a new book, Hire Education, on a key trend in higher education: the emergence […]
Aug 4, 2014
Improving information access or expanding students’ social capital?
Education technology stands to more efficiently expand not just what you know, but whom you know. Technology may be a tool to impart skills and […]
Mar 7, 2014
Why don’t entrepreneurs and learning scientists talk much?
It’s a busy week in education in the Bay Area in California. With the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco with thousands of […]
May 2, 2013
Why the latest Race to the Top competition matters
The Department of Education’s latest foray into digital learning is a big deal. The Race to the Top-District competition’s “Absolute Priority 1” is personalized learning. […]
Aug 30, 2012
How machine-based tutoring could disrupt human tutors
Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of Kaplan, published an eye-popping blog about a meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about […]
Apr 5, 2012