Hero banner

categories

HOT TOPICS

smart technologies

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17th

Warren Barkley: There is a district in Washington State who have way less money than most districts. They’ve a lot of kids who are in and out of school, but every kid has a laptop in its population of 20,000. The curriculum is online for pretty much everything that they want to learn in the K-8.

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16th

Sramana Mitra: That sounds terrible. The example you gave is shocking. Warren Barkley: That was probably one of the worst examples. I’ve seen scenarios where kids aren’t allowed on the network, so they have apps downloaded for them. They can work on some applications, but then there’s no learning artifact out of it. The devices can’t

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 3)

Posted on Monday, Dec 15th

Sramana Mitra: You are bringing in students from different countries together, and you have some sort of a social media element to your platform. You have teachers and experts from different domains on that platform who can operate across the school boundaries. Warren Barkley: It’s not quite like that. Basically, as a teacher, I have

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 2)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 14th

Warren Barkley: One of the things we’ve seen worldwide is this movement in the pedagogy where teachers want to have very small bites of information which have project work attached to it. Then they let the kids work on that project inside or outside the classroom. A lot of teachers want that kind of learning to

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Dec 13th

Warren is the CTO of Smart Technologies, a $500 million provider of virtual classroom solutions. He offers a window into trends in the space and ideas for new entrepreneurs to focus on. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing yourself as well as SMART Technologies. What do you do? Warren Barkley: I’m the CTO for SMART

Read Full Article »