Cisco Blog > Education
March 27, 2011 at 4:04 pm PST
Today’s educators are facing seemingly insurmountable challenges:
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Demands for greater accountabiliy based on high stakes assessments
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Increasing focus on differentiated instruction and student mastery of content knowledge
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Greater awarness of the importance of 21st century skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity)
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Requirements to address all of the above in an environment of declining resources
In spite of these daunting challenges, innovative educators are successfully utilizing collaborative solutions in creative ways to improve outcomes for students and provide them with the skills to compete effectively in the 21st century. As a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that professional development that prepares educators to effectively integrate technology into pedagogy and curricula is an essential element of holistic education improvement initiatives.
Tags: collaboration, edtech, technology, TelePresence
March 22, 2011 at 7:33 am PST
Last week, the co-manager of the Cisco Networking Academy Facebook page (@HilalChouman) pointed out an amazing customer post to me.
Ricardo Beltran’s girlfriend had baked him a custom Cisco birthday cake that obviously showed his dedication to Cisco. He was so proud of it, that he shared it on the Networking Academy Facebook page for all 188k fans to see.
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Tags: corporate social media, education, engagement, facebook, netacad, social media
March 10, 2011 at 10:20 pm PST
Welcome to the Cisco Education Blog. We’ll be using this blog to share our vision and solutions for Connected Learning. We’ll also showcase the success that education leaders are having creating 21st Century learning environments for students in schools, colleges and universities all around the world. More importantly, we’ll use the blog to listen, so please be generous with your comments and feedback.
Cisco has a great story to tell in Education. This story emanates from our Chairman and CEO, John Chambers, who firmly believes that there are two great equalizers in society -- the Internet and Education. He also has outlined a long term vision for Cisco to be the best in the world and the best for the world.
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Tags: education
March 7, 2011 at 7:59 pm PST
We hear a lot about the issues and challenges in Education. Unfortunately, we don’t hear enough of the success that dedicated and innovative educators are having integrating technology into curricula to create 21st Century learning environments that are improving educational outcomes for students all over the world.
At Cisco, we’re honored to work with such educators each and every day. Through programs and events such as the Cisco Virtual Forum for Education Leaders, we try to showcase innovative and practical solutions for meeting today’s education challenges. More importantly, we try to create opportunities for educators to collaborate so that best practices can be shared and replicated.
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Tags: edtech, education, education technology, higher education, highered, K12
January 27, 2011 at 7:22 am PST
We’ve all seen the amazing innovation and mass adoption of mobile apps like Groupon, Foursquare and Yelp, but I’m starting to believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg. With mobile penetration in the developing world far surpassing wired, innovative people are beginning to use seemingly simple technology like SMS to drastically improve people’s lives.
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database.
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Tags: CSR, education, grameen, mobile, qr codes, social media, wfp
