Although — as Kearns points out in his piece —
these next gen schools are often less expensive and more efficient to create, time and financial realities get in the way more often than not.
We have also funded regional incubators to create a critical mass of
next gen schools in their regions.
Creating It: We invest in field - based innovators through challenge grants and help them design and build
next gen schools.
Not exact matches
By focusing on DOOM's brutal, ultraviolent heart iD has created an all - action FPS in the old -
school style, but with
next -
gen looks and a handful of mod - cons.
As we found in a recent report on software in
schools,
schools that are pursuing
next gen learning models are making a concerted effort to break these silos down.
Second, NGLC isn't just focused on creating great one - off proof points; it's focused on creating
next -
gen schools that can scale.
NGLC is nurturing a
school redesign movement with investments to support educators,
school designers, and innovation partners to design and launch innovative
schools — Breakthrough Schools — to accelerate student achievement through next gen learning
schools — Breakthrough
Schools — to accelerate student achievement through next gen learning
Schools — to accelerate student achievement through
next gen learning models.
We collected tools that
next generation educators have used to develop an equity lens in professional learning, organizational growth,
school culture, and
next gen learning design.
When educators design and create new
schools, and live
next gen learning themselves, they take the lead in growing
next gen learning across the nation.
NGLC helps them apply what we now know about learning to
school design; we help them live
next gen learning professionally; and we work with them to generate environments in which
next gen learning can flourish.
Teacher Team
School Grant The Teacher Team
School Grant combines professional development and
next -
gen classroom assessment software to give teacher teams the necessary information and tools required to successfully implement learner - centric assessment methodologies within a team environment.
This week we look at how K - 12
schools will benefit from
next -
gen tech, and how a
school is using VR to prep students.
Participants then can look to NGLC's national network of
next gen learning
schools to serve as inspiration for what's possible.
This week we look at the business benefits of
next -
gen learning tech, and the popularity of e-sports in high
schools.
Each team of educators in the Regional Funds is actively engaged in planning a
next gen learning
school.
As more and more educators become interested in the potential of personalized,
next gen learning, NGLC spurs the development of research - & practice - informed, educator - driven, locally - designed new models for
schools.
While this is important content and skill - building, participating educators demonstrate mastery of
next gen learning design when they propose designs that are visionary yet achievable, incorporating principles of
next gen learning that are personalized to fit their
school's needs and community strengths.
The
schools we'll be visiting each reflect
next gen learning: different approaches to personalized, competency - based, blended, tech - enabled, or experiential learning, designed around richer / deeper definitions of student success.
CityBridge in particular has funded 18
next -
gen learning
schools in the DC area and runs...
Looking across the six sites participating in the NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough
Schools, we see that their local context — the assets, partners, and challenges in their region — influences the strategies used to build an ecosystem where
next gen learning can thrive.
San Diego learning excursion participants got a first - hand perspective on several threads of
next gen learning practice during the visits to e3 Civic High
School, Thrive Public
Schools, High Tech High School, and three schools within Vista Unified School District: project - based learning, personalization, enacting a district - wide vision, and student
Schools, High Tech High
School, and three
schools within Vista Unified School District: project - based learning, personalization, enacting a district - wide vision, and student
schools within Vista Unified
School District: project - based learning, personalization, enacting a district - wide vision, and student agency.
Building on trust, lead partners serve the district by providing support for research and development around
next gen learning, support for innovative teachers in their
schools, and funding and professional development for whole -
school redesigns.
Both sites have a multi-faceted strategy for incubating personalized,
next -
gen schools, but the element that most distinguishes them is their recruitment of entrepreneurial leaders for new
schools.
The regional
next -
gen school design effort in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. is predominantly charter - focused.
Opportunity to scale
next gen learning practices from an individual
school to all
schools in a district and across a state.
Customers looking for the most economical SUVs can still choose from a number of old -
school entries that trade off some
next -
gen refinements for current value.
Best known for its design work for major automakers like Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, and Maserati, among others, Pininfarina is more old -
school cool than it is
next -
gen tech.
This is a supremely playable slice of old -
school arcade gameplay, dressed up in the kind of
next -
gen visuals that the PlayStation 4 excels at.
You can also pick up an «old
school» PS3 or Xbox 360 bundled with the latest games for a fraction of the price you'd pay for a
next -
gen console.
Another one of the Mario games on the Nintendo Wii U that contributed to saving the system is Super Mario 3D World, which has combined old
school elements of the series with the beautiful high definition graphics that the system offers; it was described by some as «the most
next gen game of 2013» despite how badly the Wii U was doing as a console.