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My World Has Been Rocked

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jun 25, 2013 in Blog


My World Has Been Rocked

The NewSchools Venture Fund summit in May brought together some of the most interesting educators in the country but I find myself thinking most about five students I met there-students that were not even real.
A team of researchers from Central Florida University unveiled a platform called TeachLive that is for teachers what a flight simulator is for pilots. Using just a TV and…

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Worth Three Minutes of Your Time

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jun 29, 2012 in Blog, Silicon Schools Fund


Worth Three Minutes of Your Time

At BlendMyLearning, we are not in the business of advertising or promoting blended learning per se. We prefer to focus our lens on actual educators and have them write in their authentic voices about the real ups and downs of personalized learning.
But this little gem of a video is good enough that I’m going to take the risk in posting it.
Intel made a great three minute video that does as…

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Blended Learning Tour: Insights & Takeaways

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jun 5, 2012 in Blog, Silicon Schools Fund


Blended Learning Tour: Insights & Takeaways

A group of school operators and funders from across the country gathered in the Bay Area last week to tour several pilots and blended learning schools including Rocketship, Downtown College Prep, Aspire ERES, and KIPP Bridge.  We also met with leaders from Junyo and Education Elements.  Terry Ryan of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute offered a great set of take aways and learnings:
The blended…

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What We’ve Got Here is Failure of Imagination

Posted by Brian Greenberg on May 16, 2012 in Blog, Envision Schools, Silicon Schools Fund


What We’ve Got Here is Failure of Imagination

Let’s face it, there is a lot of buzz about blended learning. Some is deserved, and some may be overhyped. But many of the best educators I know in the country are excited about the potential to make learning much more personalized through new school models. It is exciting to think about students learning exactly what they need, exactly when they need it. It is also exciting to think about…

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Lessons Learned from a Blended Learning Pilot

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Dec 6, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


Lessons Learned from a Blended Learning Pilot

This white paper is a comprehensive overview of the Blend My Learning pilot that set out to test blended learning in a real world setting.  Written for educators, funders, policy makers, and the general public interested in how technology will transform schools, the paper focuses on the insights and lessons learned from the Khan Academy pilot in Oakland, CA.
Download the pdf version of the white…

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The Results

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Aug 31, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


The Results

The Results – How Did the Students Do?
We know that a lot of people are awaiting the results of the Envision Academy pilot this summer using Khan Academy. Before we get to the results, a quick recap. We set out to pilot a new way to run classrooms via blended learning. At Envision Academy in Oakland, California high school students who had failed algebra were randomly assigned to one of two…

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Blended Learning 2.0

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Aug 3, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


Blended Learning 2.0

What would it look like if we combined the most engaging techniques of project based learning with personalized, dynamic blended learning?
My post on the George Lucas Education Foundation’s Edutopia site tries to paint that picture.

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Khan Academy Team Visit

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jul 5, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


Khan Academy Team Visit

It was great to have the Khan Academy team and Shantanu Sinha, President of Khan Academy, come to visit Envision Academy on Friday to see the Blend My Learning experiment in action. We were impressed by their long-term vision of what Khan could become. It’s really interesting to know how much their vision for education involves Project Based Learning. So many people think of Sal’s…

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A Sense of Ownership

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jun 29, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


A Sense of Ownership

During our first meeting, I found myself empathizing with the teacher’s trepidation about this project.  On the one hand, she was being told that she wouldn’t be held accountable for any failures during this novel approach to summer school.  Yet as a fellow teacher, I wondered how an educator could ever feel okay with the idea of students failing.  It is the age-old obstacle of education…

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Quick Clip : First Day

Posted by Brian Greenberg on Jun 28, 2011 in Blog, Envision Schools


Quick Clip : First Day

You can see how quiet and focused the students were at the start.  As they get more comfortable with the site, we anticipate more peer-to-peer interaction.

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