Steven Weigler and Ray Henderson with ScholarCentric and V. Scott Solberg of Boston University School of Education have looked at what skills the students who are successful in school had, whether they were from highly educated, successful homes in good schools or from lower SES homes and less successful schools – and conversely, what skills […]
Big Bird has taken over the news. Gary Knell, Vivian Schiller’s replacement as president and CEO of NPR, was promoted in December from his position with the Sesame Workshop. Having launched numerous non-profit children’s education programs through the Sesame Workshop, Knell is no stranger to taking a long-standing public staple and breathing new life into […]
Inaugural SXSWedu Winners are LearningJar (HigherEd) and BloomBoard(K12). [View the story “LearningJar and BloomBoard LaunchEdu Winners” on Storify]
Occupiers protest the SXSWedu keynote by Pearson CEO by Marjorie Scardino. [View the story “Occupy Austin protests at SXSWedu” on Storify]
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David Kadavy, author of Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty, will discuss the art of using white space for clean design in his panel at SXSWi entitled, White Space: Shaping Nothing for Clean Design. The term clean design is often thrown around in the web design field, but no one seems to focus on the tactics […]
#DocChange Interested in learning how to raise awareness for your organization by using video? If so, the panel, “Social Change, Social Media & Social Filmmaking” presented by Dorothy Engelman, Rob Dyer, Sherien Barsoum and Meghan Warby might be of interest to you. Presenter Dorothy Engelman, executive director of q media solutions and one of Canada’s […]