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DC is keeping/firing teachers based on "grading" teachers in their successes with their students on standardized tests.

One approach to personalization. I am on their advisory board...

As consumers wise up about education spending, for-profit colleges are getting schooled. Institutions such as Apollo Group Inc.'s University of Phoenix, DeVry Inc. and Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan-who only a few years ago reported double-digit student gains on a regular basis and posted hundreds of millions in profits-now are hemorrhaging students.

Seven questions to consider before you decide on online learning and educational technology. "Not all online learning is the same. Neither is all face-to-face learning."

This article presents a rough framework to work with from a district point of view.

The Cyberlearning Research Summit will take place in Washington DC, with speakers from industry and academia, who will share visions for the future of learning with emerging technologies. Topics include role of emerging technology in learning, individualized learning, augmented reality, and many others topics covered in T561. HGSE Faculty Dr. Todd Rose will also be a speaker.

Todd Rose presented here last year and it seems highly relevant to our course. In class right now. More on this later.

Arnie Duncan, Education Secretary, and Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, setting up an ambitious plan to get digital textbooks in schools within five years. This requires ccollaboration among the Government, business, and educators.

Washington University is trying to design video courses that can closely reflect the classroom experience.

Duncan pushes technology verbally, but does not act on the national ed tech plan and has eliminated funding for technology. This is bad reporting by someone who does not understand the subject and does not ask tough questions

Can software replace high school classrooms?

There could be some real potential here for use of grants beyond the television screen. I'd be interested to track how this money is allocated across platforms, especially emerging ones like apps for phones/iPads.

Google partners with news media

graphing calculators face new competition from smart phones and such, parents wonder why they should by calculators

The real question is what the tablet can and cannot do

I would liken this to a graphing calculator (that is typically required of student's to purchase for the purpose of higher math classes) versus the classroom set of calculators typically found in the elementary math manipulative kits - the ultimate purpose of each device is very different - but the basic or fundamental features are the same - so for India, does it matter how "advanced" the system is if they really just want to get the poorest of its citizens on some type of level playing field?

"We can do to schools what PayPal did to banks and do to college networks what Facebook did to friendships. We can now make education affordable and pervasive. All this requires is investment in the right technologies and the type of mentoring and support being provided to students, such as the Thiel fellows. You could impact the lives of billions" - Vivek Wadhwa, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship.

thoughtful issues raised about rush to online schooling