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ISKME’s Lisa Petrides: Open Education and Policy | New Media Rights
CC Talks with ISKME's Lisa Petrides on Open Education and policy.
Lisa Petrides: ‘Superman’ Puts Spotlight on Education
On opening night I got to see the new documentary by Davis Guggenheim, "Waiting for 'Superman'," a film that is bringing cognitive dissonance to educators across the country. Before that, I had read a dozen or so well-written blogs that had described in...
Dan Okrent, City Mayors and Stacy Schiff to Join Events
The academic and corporate worlds come together to share new thinking on education. Speakers include a middle-school principal, the head of nonprofit Futurelab and a Microsoft Corp. researcher. Sunday-Wednesday, the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Half Moon Bay, Calif....
Reaching Students Through STEM and the Arts
Teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are discovering that by adding an “A”—the arts—to STEM, learning will pick up STEAM. “Students remember science learning situations that contain multi-sensory, hands-on...
A Custom Fit
The movement toward open educational resources turns teachers into the shapers of curriculum, mixing and matching educational materials to create content that is tailor-made for the needs of their students.