{"id":31742,"date":"2012-08-16T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2012-08-17T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:36:57","slug":"educreations-grabs-2-2m-from-accel-newschools-to-turn-your-ipad-into-your-classroom-empson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/08\/16\/educreations-grabs-2-2m-from-accel-newschools-to-turn-your-ipad-into-your-classroom-empson\/","title":{"rendered":"Educreations grabs $2.2M from Accel, NewSchools to turn your iPad into your classroom [Empson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/08\/14\/educreations-series-a\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Educreations grabs $2.2M from Accel, NewSchools to turn your iPad into your classroom<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Rip Empson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Khan Academy has attracted the attention of millions of students and parents (and has even impressed Bill Gates) by flipping the traditional classroom and homework model on its head with videos on a variety of academic subjects. While it\u2019s easy to admire Khan\u2019s devotion to teaching, the truth is he\u2019s not a trained educator. There are millions of professional teachers who would relish the opportunity to create their own educational videos and interactive lessons, but the vast majority lack the resources to flip their own classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Investment in K-12 education innovation is soaring, but it\u2019s not all\u00a0rosy\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/08\/02\/investment-in-k-12-education-innovation-is-soaring-but-its-not-all-rosy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Investment in K-12 education innovation is soaring, but it\u2019s not all\u00a0rosy<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/08\/16\/learnsprout-frees-up-data-to-let-innovation-break-into-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LearnSprout frees up data to let innovation break into the\u00a0classroom<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educreations grabs $2.2M from Accel, NewSchools to turn your iPad into your classroom &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Rip Empson Excerpt: Khan Academy has attracted the attention of millions of students and parents (and has even impressed Bill Gates) by flipping the traditional classroom and homework model on its head with videos on a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,32,14],"tags":[710,56,575],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-mobile-learning","tag-digital-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-mobile-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31832,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions\/31832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}