Author Archives: Adam Percival
Adam Percival
Today is the anniversary of the first American spacewalk. On June 3, 1965, Ed White opened the hatch of his Gemini spacecraft miles above the Pacific Ocean and spent 23 minutes floating in space. He found the experience so exhilarating he refused to come back inside the spacecraft until ordered to do so. And he [...]
As I wrote last week, the final Next Generation Science Standards were released on April 9, 2013. Of course, the question everyone is asking is: “What happens now?” For many of the biggest “what now?” topics, including adoption by states, implementation by schools, and eventual assessments for the standards, there are still many unknowns but [...]
After nearly two years of effort by the lead states, the writing teams, and Achieve, the final Next Generation Science Standards were released on April 9, 2013. Congratulations to all involved on reaching this historic milestone! These standards are significant because they have the potential to affect what over half of the nation’s K-12 students [...]
SXSWEdu 2013 is officially in the books! Thursday’s Bill Gates keynote was interesting, and my favorite part was actually when Mr. Gates was not speaking. He closed out his time by interviewing three education CEOs, and each of them focused on one of the three major themes of the sessions I attended this week: Personalized [...]
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Heading into the final day of SXSWEdu, here are the highlights from what I attended yesterday: LRMI: Peak Under the Hood of Personalized Learning LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) is an initiative to tag educational resources with metadata in order to make relevant resources more “findable.” For example: It would potentially allow searching by age [...]
Quick thoughts and quotes from day 2 on the morning of day 3: Personalization and Persistence in Online Programs You have to get the student data and then do something actionable with it, that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise – that second part is the struggle. Agile development may need to seep into the classroom [...]
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