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Some quick "look fors" for schools when assessing what type of edtech venture to partner with.

Great post! We definitely need more discussion about how edtech ventures can partner with schools, districts, and CMO's. This post is right to the point- helpful to both the schools and the edtech companies.

Schools describe what is needed to build a strong relationship between startups and schools. 

Stanford Medical School is working on flipped classroom model for some of its courses.

Excellent talks

What 100 Experts Think About The Future Of Learning

It is worth remembering that there are anywhere between 1.5x - 2x more students in home school than in charter schools.

As Mary Jo said in class today, the lack of collaboration between teachers and developers is a hugely frustrating. The Shared Learning Collaborative is an organization that tries to bring the groups together for "camps" that tap the skills of both around big problems in education. This weekend, there's a Codeathon/Tagathon in Cambridge aimed at increasing the volume of properly meta-tagged content in the Learning Registry. Could be interesting to check out.

This conference addresses a very real gap - I really hope that more opportunities like this one bring people together that share the common goal, but are coming at it from such different perspectives. Thanks, Hannah!

See page 13 for a fascinating look at how these new systems may not be compatible with emerging technology-enabled learning models (blended learning, etc).

Good ideas for many different educational projects with step-by-step instruction

This ties into our discussions about infrastructure and research grand challenges

From the article: "Music technology in some ways appears to have been on a trajectory in which the end result is that it will destroy and devalue itself. It will succeed completely when it self-destructs. The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce."

American society of paediatrics policy statement on media exposure in very young children