iPads & Personalized Learning in So. Africa
The Learning Collective has begun working with Kingsmead College, a K-12 school for girls in Johannesburg, South Africa. As Kingsmead’s iPad program grows, the school has turned to The Learning Collective to help teachers further incorporate iPads into daily classroom activities and facilitate personalized learning. Also, we’re helping the school better leverage their MacBooks for […]
E-Portfolios for UCLA Teacher Ed Program
The Learning Collective has built an online portfolio platform for UCLA’s Teacher Education Program. Teachers in training will use the platform to save, document and share their UCLA projects and experiences. The Learning Collective will also provide related professional development. This is The Learning Collective’s second engagement with UCLA. See what we did with the […]
TLC Advising 1st Parent Trigger in Country
Parent Revolution, the organization behind the cutting edge Parent Trigger work, has hired The Learning Collective. TLC is serving as one of the education experts advising the parents at the first school in the country, Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto CA, to enact a trigger school “takeover.”
Indiana & Nevada Hire TLC
The Indiana Charter School Board and the Nevada Public Charter School Authority have hired The Learning Collective to evaluate applications for prospective blended learning charter schools. We anticipate an increasing move to blended learning at charter schools, facilitated by initiatives like the US Department of Education’s Personalized Learning Race to the Top fund and companies […]
TLC Welcomes The Digital Diva
Joquetta Lynn Johnson, aka The Digital Diva, is the newest Member of The Learning Collective. Joquetta brings many years of experience and success utilizing, and training others how to leverage, educational technologies.
10 Free Great Learning Apps
We’re not necessarily saying these are the 10 best free iPad apps for students and teachers. Though they could be. These are 10 excellent apps that are worth your looking into:
Conference Insights: Charters & Tech
The Learning Collective just returned from two conferences: the National Charter Schools Conference and ISTE. In fact, we may have been the only folks at both. Here are some takeaways: 2.1 million of the 55 million K-12 students nationally are in charter schools Lots of discussions on BYOD (bring your own devices) were happening at […]
Joshua Cook Joins TLC
Joshua Cook Joins The Learning Collective
Girl Scouts of USA Hires TLC
Girl Scouts hires The Learning Collective to conceive an online experience to help girls internationally reduce their carbon footprint.
TLC Members’ Work Webby Nominated
TLC Members’ Work Nominated for 2011 Webby in Youth Category