Tom Vander Ark – Seattle Education

Category: Tom Vander Ark

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1:1 device initiatives, ALEC, ALEC Innovation Schools and School Districts, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Common Core Standards, Competency Based Learning, Education Reimagined, ESSA, Future Ready, gig economy, Great Plains Software, Greg Tehven, iNACOL, Ken Kay, Knowledgeworks, Learning Ecosystem, LRNG city, Marcus Lingenfelter, Mass Customized Learning (competency-based education), Microsoft, Most Likely To Succeed, North Dakota, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), personalized learning, School ReTool, social impact investing, STEM, Strive Together, Susie Wise, Teach for America, Ted Dintersmith, Tom Vander Ark, Tony Wagner, Work-Based Learning

They’ve Got Trouble, Up There in North Dakota (Dintersmith Strikes Again)

May 29, 2018 — 0 Comments

Bezos Family Foundation, Big Picture Learning, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Career Pathways, Catalyst Initiative, Charles River Ventures, Clayton Christensen Institute, Competency Based Learning, Digital Promise, Dreambox, Edublocks, Grable, Hewlett Packard, High Tech High, IDEO, ImBlaze, Jean Hammond, Knowledgeworks, Learning Ecosystem, Mastery Transcript Consortium, Most Likely To Succeed, Nellie Mae Foundation, Obama administration’s Next Generation High School initiative, Overdeck Foundation, Richard Culatta, Salesforce, School ReTool, social impact bonds, STEM, Ted Dintersmith, The Rockefeller Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, Vulcan, Inc

Ted Dintersmith is not here to save neighborhood schools!

April 4, 2018 — 5 Comments

1:1 device initiatives, Algorithms, Amplify, AR/VR, augmented reality/virtual reality, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Boston Consulting Group, Carnegie Corporation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Chromebooks, Common App, Common Education Data Standards, Common Sense Media, Data Interoperable, Data Quality Campaign, Digital Promise, ed-fi alliance, EdSurge, ESSA, Europe - GDPR, Facebook, FERPA, Future of Privacy Forum, gamification, Getting Smart, Go365, Harvard Project Zero, Humanetech, IMS Global, InnovateEDU, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Jeff Bezos, K-12 LinkedIn Data Badges, McKinsey Global Institute, Microsoft, Microsoft OneNote, Minecraft Education, National PTA, Naviance, Oculus Rift, Open Education Resources, #GoOpen initiative, Pearson, personalized learning, Project Unicorn, Relay Graduate School, Scholar Snap, Smart Cities, The Dell Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, Truth About Tech, US Department of Education (USDOE), US Department of Labor-Workforce Data Quality Initiative

Data Unicorns? Tech Giants and US Dept of Ed Form Alliance to Leverage Student Data — Without Parent Consent.

March 15, 2018 — 2 Comments

Algorithms, Blended learning, Blockchain, Chromebooks, Common Core Standards, Data Quality Campaign, Digital Learning Now, Education Research & Development Institute (ERDI), Mark Zuckerburg, Online learning, Tom Vander Ark, Virtual classrooms

2011 Video: Personalized Learning’s Plan to Replace Teachers? “It means a different staffing model which costs less and works better”

February 8, 2018 — 0 Comments

big data and the surveillance state, Chris Reykdal, human capital, Supply and Demand: wages, Swiss Model, Tom Vander Ark, Tracking, Unions, workforce development

Tracking for the Rest of Us

November 26, 2017 — 0 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Child Labor, Facebook, gig economy, McKinsey Global Institute, Seesaw, Tom Vander Ark

Living the Gig Life: Tom Vander Ark’s Plans for My 6th Grader

November 12, 2017 — 1 Comment

1:1 device initiatives, adaptive management systems, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, AI and education, Algorithms, AltSchool, Americorp volunteer, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace learning, AR/VR, augmented reality/virtual reality, Army Research Lab, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Broad Superintendents Academy, Carnegie Mellon, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Charter schools, Chromebooks, Class Size, Classcraft, Common Core Standards, Cyber-Education, Department of Defense, Department of Education (DOE), Education Elements, ESSA, Evidence based policy, FERPA, financial de-stabilization, Future Ready, gamification, Global Education Futures: Agenda, global finance, Google Apps for Education, Google Student Accounts, grit, Halliburton, Hewlett Packard, High Stakes Testing, IBM, Innosight Institute, Institute for Creative Technologies, Kindergarten, Learning Ecosystem, Micro Schools, Microsoft, Minecraft, Montessori school model, Naviance, online chat bots, Opting Out of High Stakes Testing, Pavel Luksha, Pay for Success, Pearson, personalized learning, Project Based Learning, Reasoning Mind, Remake Learning, Rocketship, School Vouchers, Skolkovo Institute, Social Emotional Learning SEL, Summit Basecamp, The Clayton Christensen Institute, Tom Vander Ark, TouchSense, US Department of Education (USDOE), USC, Vouchers, whole child - data collection, workforce development

An Interview with Alison McDowell: KEXP’s Mind Over Matters Community Forum

August 14, 2017 — 1 Comment