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Students from Norco College created an interactive game that introduces middle schools students to career technical education. '' It's so important to get students thinking early about their future'' (Director of Career & Technical Education Projects)

speculates about how employers will view participation in MOOCs

A report by the Alliance for Excellent Education says that public education will face four challenges in adopting education technology: 1) preparing kids for college / career, 2) shrinking budgets, 3) teacher-centered to learner-centered, and 4) technology equality (especially for low-income students).

Tennessee Technology Centers (a "career-training program" that is state funded) is using strictly enforced scheduling to help retain students with 1 in 4 odds of completing their program. The school is taking the opposite approach that most higher education schools take. Instead of having the freedom to create their own schedule, they work with the school to determine a schedule from the beginning which is permanent throughout the duration of their time at the school and is strictly enforced. The school is hoping to increase retention of students in 1 to 2 year programs that have low graduation rates, and produce more graduates in emerging technology fields.

MIT considering its future vis-a-vis edX: "An education from MIT may soon involve a freshman year spent completing online courses, two years on campus and a fourth "year" of continuous education. While students pursue their careers, they could access a growing library of online courses to refresh their knowledge."access a growing library of online courses to refresh their knowledge."

Indian college classrooms have not integrated technology into learning and teaching, so private companies - teaching the skills needed to perform in their specific career paths - are taking the lead, showing that universities need to catch up.

This article outlines four ways that Quick Response codes scanned with smart phones could be used in formal education settings. The ideas are intriguing, such as keeping track of a students work throughout their school career and opening up lines of communication to parents.

I love the idea of a educational career portfolio using this technology. Can you imagine sending your QR code along with a college application to get a true picture of the type of student you have been and can become? The idea of using the QR codes with parents sounds like a great alternative to all the papers that get sent home (and lost) throughout the year, I just wonder what percentage of parents are equipped to handle that type of technology use.

Apparently my simulation idea about having students take on roles as career professionals has already been done. A drove of statistical consultants (the students) are helping the mayor (NPC), get re-elected. The most interesting Worked Example is Modern Prometheus, where students learn about literature and writing through a MUVE.

I have over my career in the classroom become somewhat of an expert on reading kids' emotions through body language. Def. not on par with 'The Mentalist', but I can tell when I kid is going to explode or is hiding something or is in need of a lerning intervention. This is not really possible with distance learners...or is it and if possible, what are the implications on the students' psyche?

Badgestack and Longwood U combine forces to offer students a head start on what they need to know to succeed in today's work force.

This is a suite of free online learning games to introduce middle to early high school-age youth to a variety of STEM-based professions -- recently was released at a launch event from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

"Coursera announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up-including Facebook and Twitter"

Schools manager, product management, and curriculum design positions available

Website to teach kids the information literacy skills they need to approach the job search process--interesting concept

"KnowledgeWorks Foundation has just released the third edition of its education forecast, called Forecast 3.0, Recombinant Education: Regenerating the Learning Ecosystem, that outlines the deconstruction of the current education model, a change in educators' roles based on their strengths, changing career pathways, and the role of technology in this realm."

"The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"

Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."