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Three long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, veterans from Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and Google, started funding education start-ups last Spring. Their incubator, Imagine K12, has now "graduated" its first group of startups. If accepted, Imagine K12 give $15k to $20k to startups and empower them with "dazzling network of connections."

Coverage for the next generation of young edtech companies

Its clear, the Common Core Standards are creating new market opportunities.

A Stanford University group tracked students in eight virtual schools and found that "in every subgroup, with significant effects, cyber charter performance is lower." K12 Inc. made large profit, but at what cost?

It is sad that every good idea gets hijacked for 'profit-maximizing'

This article is further proof that many of the emerging educational technology initiatives are driven not by student performance but by the desire to earn profits. K12,inc. seems to be a particularly shady (and highly successful) business in this regard.

After today's section case discussion, I was curious about how prevalent 1:1 tablet implementations are in K12 schools in the U.S. Here's a map from the One-To-One Institute that appears to have been generated by news coverage of tablet rollouts--I doubt it's comprehensive, but it's still an interesting geographic picture...

A look at 10 upcoming education-related startups!

Discussion of the role of user interfaces in the K-12 environment.

Some interesting data on where private equity is going by stage and funder in the edtech space.

It seems to me that K12 Inc. is pretty shady. If you're interested in the darker side of for-profit online schools, check out this article published in the New York Times last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/education/online-schools-score-better-on-wall-street-than-in-classrooms.html?pagewanted=all

This is a truly dumb set of definitions that of course are being widely publicized by the media (sigh)

"Social Learning: Using social media as part of class. Who said that Twitter was just for Justin Bieber?"

I have revisited this over and over - but each time I realize that no, I'm not hallucinating. They do indeed endorse 1:1 laptop/iPad, as they are "way cooler than stickers." Obviously, they don't have access to the right stickers.

A 2007 article predicting the use of tech in education in 2012. I don't know what's more interesting: what they got right or what they missed!

Has anyone seen this group? Seems like they are doing what we have been talking about re: blended learning. I am going to dig in for more info....

Steve, I used to work on the external evaluation of the first round of NGLC grants, which focused on colleges and community colleges applying these guiding principles. I know less about their K12 grants and present work but am happy to talk about what I know.

Relevant to the discussion we had yesterday in recitation about professional development and the comments from Emily about similarities in technology adoption. Teachers can learn about how to use social media from business trainers, too.

This article depicts a school district where the use of mobile technology has been a big success. It gives a detailed account of how this is true.

This page contains a video and case study of Katy Independent School district's integration of mobile technology into the classrooms.

This is the parents link to the Katy Independent School District Site. There is a link from this page to a PDF containing guidelines for mobile technology usage at Katy.