The excerpts below are reprinted from EdWeek’s MarketBrief. You can read the entire article here. This article was written by Michele Molnar, Associate Editor, EdWeek. Bill Gates address was delivered at the ASU/GSV Conference in San Diego recently. RE@L Blog is pleased to see some penetrating, new thinking by Bill Gates on changing K12 academic outcomes
As promised in our last RE@L Blog, we will be featuring some of the many MECC posters recently posted on Facebook by a former MECC employee . This iconic poster* (see above) from MECC’s halcyon days, 25 years ago, told the K12 EdTech world back then that curriculum, software, teaching and learning must be MANAGED, and managed
Many of you know that RE@L, or Real Experiences At Life in longhand, is a software startup initiative begun by the same, creative team of leaders who earlier in their careers brought MECC, or the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation, to the software world. MECC, of course, brought Oregon Trail to the world, arguably the most famous
We found this provocative statement on STEM on Facebook a couple of weeks ago and put it at the top of our list of topics for right after Spring Break. For two reasons! STEM is important to us, and Anne Jolly has been one of our Guest Bloggers on that STEM topic a few months
Yes, we are writing this Blog on the First Day of April, but trust us. This is NOT a joke. Although it may LOOK like one! It’s been a busy few weeks here at RE@L! All the burners on our kitchen stove are taken up with our RE@L Blog cooking pots and pans. In other words, we’ve got a