by kris | Nov 3, 2020 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
Recent PSA posts highlight the challenges of teachers, parents, and students as they seek improved approaches working from home, learning from home, and remote health care because of COVID-19. The National Association of Counties (NACo) is forming a task force to...
by kris | Sep 21, 2018 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
Seattle looks to the tech industry to come up with solutions connecting the homeless to services. When the mayor announced the panel last month and was asked how the participants could help, she said they might help design an app allowing the city and...
by kris | Mar 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target, Understanding Media
See an article from the El Paso times describing a new partnership with Microsoft. ‘Our hope is that TechSpark will help communities and businesses work better together to address critical economic challenges at the local level,’ Brad Smith, Microsoft...
by kris | Oct 31, 2017 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Convergence on Target, Learning Community
Here is a look at a creative bid from New Mexico for an Amazon HQ2. The bid addresses PSA core elements of a great learning experience such as capturing the learning imagination, creating a bi-national learning community, and understanding how the border region...
by kris | Aug 1, 2017 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
Here is a flexible approach to teacher training offering stackable credentials through the community college. The idea is to graduate a diverse group of new teachers with roots in underserved communities hopefully making a big difference in student success rates...
by kris | May 17, 2017 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target, Individual Learner, Science of Learning
Here is an opportunity to learn more about what is going on with information architecture. PSA is interested in how cognitive psychology and designing the user experience is evolving the field of designing a learning environment. How does a person process the...
