Author: David Havens
Defining Impact in Education Technology
“I have trouble understanding double, triple bottom line funds – there can only be one bottom line for impact funds. That’s why they call it the bottom.” - a paraphrase of Kevin…
Technology and Student Engagement
In the age of mobile computing, attention and engagement have become commodities. Advertisers are willing to spend millions for mere seconds of viewers’ attention. With all the ads and apps…
Live from Summit 2014: CCSS and Designing Digital Learning
In a series of discussions moderated by Betsy Corcoran of Edsurge, entrepreneurs and other education stakeholders tackled both the problems and opportunities in K12 learning. Their discussion centered around two…
Live From Summit 2014: Reading Reconsidered
Teaching Literacy in the New World of CCSS Let’s start with an example. Read the following: “Drew scored on Pedroia’s one-out sacrifice in the third, his hundredth RBI of the…
The Future of Standardized Testing
The College Board recently announced it is changing the SAT to better align with schoolwork. While I applaud their initiative to make the test relevant to what students are actually learning, emerging…