http://tfreedmanconsulting.com/documents/AFutureofFailure-Public.pdf This report by Feedman Consulting (commissioned by the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) assesses the current state of the pipeline, key challenges and barriers to the development of technology-oriented human capital in government and civil society, models of successful interventions, and recommendations for a more robust pipeline.
Month: April 2014
Thought Provoking Article on Learning Objectives by Gardern Campbell
How Teachers Are Learning: Professional Development Remix
Excellent video about the limits of expert and technical solutions to many poverty-related problems
Link “This video by the Global POV project reminds us that problems related to poverty need to be political, historical, and contextualized”
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Net Discrimination / Tim Wu
Can Interactive Films Hit the Emotional Mark? A First Look at the Projects at Tribeca Storyscapes 2014 | POV Blog | PBS
Link: “The five transmedia projects on display at this second installment of Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival are not only more interactive and participatory than some of their predecessors, but they are also more emotionally evocative.“
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative: using schema.org to describe open educational resources
Link “paper discusses the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), an international project that aims to facilitate the discovery of educational resources through the use of embedded metadata that can be used by search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex) to refine the search services they offer.“
Course in Blended Learning
Big jump in online K12 learning enrollment in California
Big jump in online K12 learning enrollment in California: “Link to Report: http://www.clrn.org/census/ “
What happens when public-school students are promised a college education – Washington Post
What happens when public-school students are promised a college education: “Washington Post”