{"id":18579,"date":"2011-04-27T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18579"},"modified":"2011-04-27T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T00:24:25","slug":"from-dsc-this-is-huge-the-gates-foundation-announces-portfolio-of-innovative-grants-totaling-20-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/27\/from-dsc-this-is-huge-the-gates-foundation-announces-portfolio-of-innovative-grants-totaling-20-million\/","title":{"rendered":"(From DSC: This is huge!) The Gates Foundation announces portfolio of innovative grants totaling $20+ million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I realize that many in education don&#8217;t view Bill and Melinda Gates with a great deal of admiration or respect. However, they and their foundation are about to make a <em>hugely positive <\/em>difference in &#8212; and contribution to &#8212; education. I&#8217;m sure that these grants will help create solutions that will feature professionally-done, highly-engaging, interactive, multimedia-based, team-created educational content. I hope that many of the solutions will feature sophisticated back-end engines that will allow for highly personalized\/customized learning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is huge because such solutions are <em>highly scalable. <\/em><em>Plus look at who is involved at this point:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Pearson<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Educurious Partners<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Florida Virtual School<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Institute of Play<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Reasoning Mind<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Quest Atlantis<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Digital Youth Network<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>EDUCAUSE<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Also see<\/em><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/press-releases\/Pages\/common-core-tools-110427.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gates Foundation announces portfolio of innovative grants to develop new teaching and learning tools that support teachers and help students<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the Gates Foundation<em><br \/>\nAdaptable resources will provide teachers with helpful tools to differentiate instruction and prepare all students to meet the Common Core State Standards<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/foundationnotes\/Pages\/vicki-phillips-110427-cutting-edge-tools.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cutting-edge tools to help teachers in the classroom<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackeducation.com\/2011\/04\/27\/gates-foundation-invests-20-million-in-digital-courses-game-based-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gates Foundation invests $20 million in digital courses, game-based learning<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I realize that many in education don&#8217;t view Bill and Melinda Gates with a great deal of admiration or respect. However, they and their foundation are about to make a hugely positive difference in &#8212; and contribution to &#8212; education. I&#8217;m sure that these grants will help create solutions that will feature professionally-done, [&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":[113,329,435,388,286,347,32,215,98,210,141,35,178,95,180,276,46,7,14,23,62,133,279,69,140,126,13,164],"tags":[568,627,413,756,296,710,93,739,56,677,294,585,151,16,91,661,705,4,569,575,601,635,707,70,640,632,574,165],"class_list":["post-18579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-analytics","category-animation","category-digital-learning","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-elearning","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global-globalization","category-innovation","category-interactivity","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-mobile-learning","category-multimedia","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-participation","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-publishing","category-simulations","category-using-teams","category-virtual-k-12-schools","tag-568","tag-21st-century","tag-24x7x365","tag-animation","tag-customized-learning","tag-digital-learning","tag-e-learning","tag-education-reform","tag-educational-technology","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-engagement","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-games","tag-global-learning","tag-grants","tag-innovation","tag-interactivity","tag-k-12","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-mobile-learning","tag-online-learning","tag-online-media","tag-participation","tag-personalized-learning","tag-publishing","tag-simulations","tag-using-teams","tag-virtual-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18590,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions\/18590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}