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"Education lies at the very core of our company’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." — Page and Brin Google and other search engines are fundamentally changing the way our brains process and retain information. Is Google Making Us Stupid? When printed books were just introduced in the human... Read More ›

January is International Creativity Month. Founded by motivational speaker and author Randall Munson, International Creativity Month is geared towards celebrating the power of creativity across the globe. The ipl2 newsletter curates an array of articles illustrating how creativity is implemented in workplaces, in education, with food, with children, and across cultures. Because implementing creative projects in... Read More ›

As we move into an era of ‘seamless learning’ (using mobile devices to connect learning experiences more easily across locations, social settings and time), we increasingly recognize that at times formal learning takes place in informal settings, and informal learning in formal settings (Wong & Looi, 2011; Wong, 2012). These articles and paper shed the... Read More ›

Standards play an important role in all aspects of our lives. Everything we take for granted - from standard light bulbs and batteries to the width of roads - could be significantly disrupted without the uniformity produced by consensus around a standard. Interoperability is an Educational Imperative Educational systems are accelerating their transition to the... Read More ›

Yesterday TED-Ed launched a new, international classroom based program - TED-Ed Clubs - to promote media and presentation literacy among students. To promote presentation skills is good, and TED is a good platform to spread words. But do students really need a setting created by adults because adults think kids can’t voice their thoughts and even... Read More ›

The paper on "mobile learning through indigenous languages: learning through a constructivist approach"(Creative Commons BY 3.0 licence) written by Mmaki Jantjies and Mike Joy reports on a case study in a South African high school that evaluated the potential use of mobile learning to support bilingual learners using a constructivist learning approach. With their research they provide... Read More ›

To ensure high-quality alignment of digital K-12 education resources to state-adopted academic content standards, SETDA had launched a project in June 2012 ("Granular Identifiers and Metadata for the Common Core State Standards" or GIM-CCSS). Given that the technical work in designing an approach to digitally encode the CCSS remains of interest to state and district education leaders,... Read More ›

Just like Sheryl Abshire(Chief Technology Officer of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, LA) pointed out : Districts already have more data than they can manage, and the new assessments and teacher evaluations for 2014 promise to add more to the overflowing pile of numbers. District leaders are overwhelmed right now because they face many changes in 2014,... Read More ›

To date, a lack of accepted data standards has limited states’ and districts’ abilities to use the most innovative assessment systems. As they develop next-generation assessment systems, states in the Race to the Top Assessment consortia and General Supervision Enhancement Grant consortia need to establish such standards to facilitate item and data transfer across systems... Read More ›