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Blended Learning Data: A Day at the Golf Course
In high school, I once had a friend treat me to a game of golf on a $200/round professional course. The result? We lost every single one of the golf balls we brought by about the fifth hole, so we gave up and returned the clubhouse to plead for our money back.
If you’ve never graduated from mini-golf and tried walking around for miles with a bag of clubs and a goal of hitting a tiny ball…
Useful Data Dashboards: Tell Me the Current Weather, the Forecast, What to Wear, and Why
I recently had a great discussion with the team at eSpark in Chicago about their data dashboard. (We don’t actually use them since they are for iPads – although their product looks very promising). The conversation centered on what dashboards we have found work for our teachers and administrators after using and piloting over 40 different products since we started this journey. …
We’re Going to Change the Way We Think about Education
“How are things going?”
“These computers won’t keep the activation code.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean this section has to enter the 13-digit code every single period.”
“How long has this been going on?”
“About a week, since we first started using the program.”
“Wonderful.” (Sarcastically)
Since then, we’ve naturally solved this issue, but this simple conversation…