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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/with-microsoft-kinect-students-can-learn-how-to-hack/kinecthack/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13451\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-13451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/07/kinecthack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Daniel Choo\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Earlier this fall, Microsoft announced that its \u003ca href=\"http://www.xbox.com/\">Xbox 360\u003c/a> would soon offer special games and TV shows associated with several well-known children's programs, including Sesame Street and Nat Geo Wild. The plan, says Microsoft, is to create shows that would foster a new kind of \"playful learning,\" tying them to the capabilities of the Microsoft Kinect device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the news wasn't great: the same day Microsoft unveiled its new toddler-friendly Kinect games, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a report urging no or limited screen time for children under age 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kids will be able to help Cookie Monster with specific tasks, and he’ll respond to their gestures and to their voices.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But bringing the Kinect to children's television is an intriguing proposition. Microsoft say that it’s filming new TV shows and building new games that “seek to inspire kids and their parents to get off the couch and into the action, working cooperatively with their favorite characters to have fun and learn at the same time.” Fun, learning and even physical activity are often invoked when it comes to children's programming -- and it's something that the American Academy of Pediatrics \u003c!--more-->challenges us to think about: while the shows might tout educational content, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html\">research\u003c/a> actually suggests there are some negative consequences of TV on toddlers' development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Sesame Street, while geared at young children (those in preschool and early elementary levels), is aimed at those older than age two. But the cautionary note the American Academy of Pediatrics makes is still worth considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the Kinect does add a new twist to children's television viewing. The Kinect is a motion-sensing input device for the Xbox 360 game console. That means that with it, users can control their video games -- and now their television shows -- without having to use a game controller. Instead, the Kinect senses bodies, gestures and voice, and by using the “controller-free magic of Kinect,” says Alex Games, educational design director for Microsoft, “we can encourage kids to use their motor skills and to learn using their body in immersive experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new programs, television and play will be combined in order to promote a different level of engagement, according to Microsoft. With “Kinect Sesame Street TV,” kids will be able to help Cookie Monster with specific tasks, and he’ll respond to their gestures and to their voices. Of course, Sesame Street characters have always addressed viewers directly, speaking though the screen to those watching at home. The show has long asked children to sing or count along with them. But with the Kinect, the characters will now actually be able to interact more, gauging for example if a child gets the wrong answer to a question that it has posed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This more embodied type of learning, mediated through computing devices, is something that the \u003ca href=\"http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/sections/gesture-based-computing/\">2011 Horizon Report\u003c/a> pegged as one of the key trends to watch in education technology. Although the Horizon Report said that “gesture-based computing” was still four or five years away from mainstream classroom adoption, we’re certainly seeing strong indications of what this will look like via new consumer electronics devices. It’s evident in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/10/why-the-a-magazine-is-an-ipad-that-does-not-work-video-is-ridiculous/\">multitouch\u003c/a> interface of an iPad, for example, or with the voice-input of Siri and the new iPhone 4S, or with the body-control of the Kinect. It's clear from these examples that the future of our computing devices likely won't demand input from a keyboard and mouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the new children's programming with the Microsoft Kinect and Sesame Street are any indication, the future of television will likely look quite different too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 225px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.audiophilage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GoldStarSticker.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17310\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/GoldStarSticker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/GoldStarSticker.jpg 225w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/GoldStarSticker-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/GoldStarSticker-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Audiophilage\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the discussion over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/11/can-everyone-be-smart-at-everything/\">learning styles and measuring achievements\u003c/a>, it's important to take into account what educators see first-hand in class. 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If they receive A's in Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies and a B in English, suddenly English becomes that subject they know they are not good at. With this determination comes damaged self-confidence, increased anxiety over assignments and tests, and a lifelong self-fulfilling prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\">Bolstering a child’s confidence is key. They need to believe that with hard work and perseverance they CAN learn – and not just in certain ways or in certain areas. Teachers often see students with lower IQs performing above their potential, and even above students with higher aptitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\">The \u003cem>New York Magazine\u003c/em> article \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/\">How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise\u003c/a> by Po Bronson includes some discussion of the study by psychologist Carol Dweck, where she studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York schools. The results of her series of experiments on 400 fifth-graders is astounding. Random groups of children were either praised for their intelligence (“You must be smart at this”) or for their effort (“You must have worked really hard”). The children who believed it was effort, not innate gifts, that made the positive difference in their learning success achieved more and were more willing to take on difficult challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://teachnlife.blogspot.com/\">BECKY BAIR\u003c/a>: intermediate grades in Pennsylvania’s Elizabethtown Area School District.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The debate surrounding recognition for achievement, identification of learning styles, effort, and multiple intelligences certainly sparks a great deal of interest and discussion. Just like any other topic in education these days you can probably find research that refutes or supports the side that you would like to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">What worries me is that within all of this conversation, we’re still not talking about the ridiculous amount of time schools spend focusing on student weaknesses. Do we gain anything when we make students feel that they are less smart if they don’t make a certain grade? Or when we set them up for failure in certain classes because we've decided in advance that this child or that child \"doesn't do well\" in math or science or language? Or when we constantly force kids into learning situations that emphasize only what they have done wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Here are some messages I see students getting all the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Didn’t pass the test? Let’s have you do more test prep instead of learning skills that you can actually apply as you get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Can’t read enough words per minute? We’ll pull you out of a less important subject like history or science and give you an additional reading class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Not grasping a particular skill in a core subject? Let’s prohibit you from taking electives that might spark your interest. We'll put you in remediation classes instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Not sure how to decode longer words? Let’s put you with a different teacher and you can practice this skill in isolation. We won't worry about connecting it to real content where you might see its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Perhaps this discussion needs to be about more than whether we’re doing our students a disservice by patting them on the back or identifying their preferred learning style. Maybe we should really be thinking about how our students’ educational experiences prepare them for real life after school. In real life there are days when we adults feel really great and smart, and there are those days where we feel like we don’t have a clue. What differentiates kids from adults, hopefully, is that adults understand those blue days are not lasting and we have the power to change them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Maybe this discussion should be more about exposure. Let’s give our kids the chance to try lots of things so they'll discover what they're great at and can start thinking about a career path and how to be a successful adult. 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The children who believed it was effort, not innate gifts, that made the positive difference in their learning success achieved more and were more willing to take on difficult challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://teachnlife.blogspot.com/\">BECKY BAIR\u003c/a>: intermediate grades in Pennsylvania’s Elizabethtown Area School District.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The debate surrounding recognition for achievement, identification of learning styles, effort, and multiple intelligences certainly sparks a great deal of interest and discussion. Just like any other topic in education these days you can probably find research that refutes or supports the side that you would like to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">What worries me is that within all of this conversation, we’re still not talking about the ridiculous amount of time schools spend focusing on student weaknesses. Do we gain anything when we make students feel that they are less smart if they don’t make a certain grade? Or when we set them up for failure in certain classes because we've decided in advance that this child or that child \"doesn't do well\" in math or science or language? Or when we constantly force kids into learning situations that emphasize only what they have done wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Here are some messages I see students getting all the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Didn’t pass the test? Let’s have you do more test prep instead of learning skills that you can actually apply as you get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Can’t read enough words per minute? We’ll pull you out of a less important subject like history or science and give you an additional reading class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Not grasping a particular skill in a core subject? Let’s prohibit you from taking electives that might spark your interest. We'll put you in remediation classes instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">• Not sure how to decode longer words? Let’s put you with a different teacher and you can practice this skill in isolation. We won't worry about connecting it to real content where you might see its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Perhaps this discussion needs to be about more than whether we’re doing our students a disservice by patting them on the back or identifying their preferred learning style. Maybe we should really be thinking about how our students’ educational experiences prepare them for real life after school. In real life there are days when we adults feel really great and smart, and there are those days where we feel like we don’t have a clue. 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And let’s not be afraid to put our kids in situations where they fail and try and maybe fail again, so they can see that failure is not the end of the world but an inevitable and valuable experience -- another opportunity to learn and grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://imagineteach.org/\">ED ALLEN\u003c/a>: administrator and drama teacher at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Philadelphia.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">I have had the good fortune during years of teaching the performing arts to watch students learn by experiencing the struggles of putting together a show -- the failures and uncertainties and ultimately the triumphs of a successful performance. There is no tracking, no extrinsic rewards, no talk of learning styles. 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"content": "\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/will-online-education-expand-in-california/10_11-15_newtech_0157-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17286\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17286\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/10_11.15_newtech_0157-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Lenny Gonzales\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/user/joanna-lin\">By Joanna Lin\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For public school students in California, where you live usually determines where you can learn. To David Haglund, that's not right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Haglund, principal of the Riverside Virtual School, an online independent study program run by the Riverside Unified School District, introduced a statewide \u003ca href=\"http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i1005_11-0062_%28student_rights%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ballot initiative [PDF]\u003c/a> that would give students unrestricted access to publicly funded courses – wherever they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cadiploma.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Student Bill of Rights Initiative\u003c/a> is \"designed to eliminate control by ZIP code,\" Haglund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, schools, districts and county education offices would be required to make available to all students the courses needed for admission to the state's universities. Those courses, known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/hs/hsgrtable.asp\" target=\"_blank\">A-G requirements\u003c/a> at the University of California and California State University, could be offered at a student's school or district of residence or any other publicly funded school, and they could be classroom-based, online or a blended model of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 27 percent of California public high schools in 2007-08 offered too few A-G courses for all students to take them, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications/eor-10/files-and-documents/Conditions-Opportunities-Addendum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">analysis [PDF]\u003c/a> by UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We in our public school system in California say, 'If you don't live within so many square miles of a building, you can't play,' and that's not fair,\" Haglund said. \"And it's particularly unfair when the \u003c!--more-->infrastructure and technology exists to resolve those issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeptics of the initiative say that while the proposal attempts to address real problems in education access and equity, it's not the right mechanism to do so. If passed, the initiative could send more public money to private companies, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative calls on the state to modify its school financing system so that average daily attendance is apportioned to the courses students complete, allowing multiple institutions to split funding for the same student. Currently, online education in California operates as independent study programs, or charter or private schools – models that initiative supporters say limit access to virtual learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea is if the funding is attached to courses, the schools might be more willing to investigate how to make those courses available,\" Haglund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers, director of UCLA IDEA, sees a different outcome: \"Splitting up a student's ADA (average daily attendance) potentially can weaken the home institutions,\" he said. \"When there are efforts to supplant aspects of the existing public education system with a cheaper online alternative, you're going to diminish the overall quality of public education, and you're going to exacerbate, not remedy, inequalities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative \"could wreak havoc on the delivery of public education in the state,\" said John Affeldt, managing attorney for Public Advocates, which is representing organizations and families \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicadvocates.org/campaign-for-quality-education-v-california\" target=\"_blank\">challenging the constitutionality\u003c/a> of California's school funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems at first blush to be more about an online provider's bill of rights to get public money to provide online courses than an initiative to make sure we have equitable access to education for all kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund said, \"The initiative is not designed to destroy public education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California as a state has pushed educational innovation into the private and charter school space. If that's where we want to go, then keep it up,\" he said. \"But if we want our kids in public schools to have access to the same type of high-quality education they can have elsewhere, we need to switch it up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The Old West'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund's proposal comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577030600066250144.html?\" target=\"_blank\">more students\u003c/a> are going to school by logging on to their computers. At least 15,000 students in California are enrolled in full-time online charter schools, and more than 3,600 were enrolled at Riverside Virtual School, the largest district-run program in the state in 2009-10, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://kpk12.com/states/california/\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> by the Evergreen Education Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike many states that have embraced – or at least accepted – online education, California has stayed on the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no statewide provision for online learning in California. It's all facilitated through individual districts who make up their own thing as they go along; consequently, it's like the Old West,\" Haglund said. \"You've got everybody and their grandmother out there doing something, but nobody knows what that something is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers – including state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson when he was a state assemblyman – have tried repeatedly to expand access to online education through changes to ADA guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torlakson is currently assembling an advisory board to rethink technology in the classroom and is looking to raise $250,000 to fund its work. His long-term goal is to provide every student with a digital learning device, said Jason Spencer, a legislative representative for the superintendent. Although funding online education is a piece of the puzzle, it's an issue for the Legislature to decide, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund and his colleagues at Education Forward, a nonprofit formed to sponsor the initiative, said they are tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is it possible for the Legislature in Sacramento to deal with this much more quickly and efficiently than this process? Yeah, absolutely,\" said Rick Miller, superintendent of Riverside Unified and a director at Education Forward. \"But they haven't done it. It doesn't mean they can't and they won't – they just haven't. How long should we wait?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller and Haglund said they are sponsoring the initiative as individuals, not on behalf of their district. But their experience in Riverside has helped them craft some guidelines for online education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the initiative, only online courses approved by UC and schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges would be eligible for public funds. Student participation in virtual learning would be voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it's cleared by the state for circulation – a target date is set for next month – the initiative will need 504,760 signatures to qualify for the November 2012 ballot. More than likely, it won't be the only online education proposal Californians see next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language in the initiative could end up in legislation next year, said Jeff Frost, a lobbyist for several education organizations and school districts, including Riverside Unified. Along with other school district lobbyists, Frost has developed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/268526-education-management-groups-statement-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">seven principles\u003c/a> for online learning that he hopes will lay a foundation for state policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department of Education, Department of Finance and key legislative staffers are skeptical that if the kid's not in a room with a teacher, they're not sure what level of learning is actually going on,\" Frost said. \"We're working on language … to reach some kind of harmony in the issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That language, Frost said, will support the notion that ADA can be calculated based on student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether they're in the virtual school's learning center or whether they're at home with their mom looking over their shoulder or whether they're in the public library – if they're there working, that's the same as a kid who showed up in school,\" Frost said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Van Nuys, said technology provides tools to verify that students are learning outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the traditional classroom, you can't verify if that student is looking out the window and daydreaming about something else, whereas an online class, you can. You can make sure that person's butt is in the seat when they say it's supposed to be. … The technology is out there and improving every day as we speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blumenfield wrote bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_802&sess=CUR&house=B&author=blumenfield\" target=\"_blank\">this year\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2001-2050/ab_2027_bill_20100715_amended_sen_v96.html\" target=\"_blank\">last\u003c/a> to expand online education. Those efforts will be reincarnated in January as a state Senate bill, he said. Like previous legislation, it will call for proctored, in-person exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how online education should be funded, Blumenfield said he's \"somewhat agnostic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My goal is I want to get it done,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003cem>California Watch, the state’s largest investigative reporting team and part of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawatch.org\">www.californiawatch.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\n",
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Currently, online education in California operates as independent study programs, or charter or private schools – models that initiative supporters say limit access to virtual learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea is if the funding is attached to courses, the schools might be more willing to investigate how to make those courses available,\" Haglund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers, director of UCLA IDEA, sees a different outcome: \"Splitting up a student's ADA (average daily attendance) potentially can weaken the home institutions,\" he said. \"When there are efforts to supplant aspects of the existing public education system with a cheaper online alternative, you're going to diminish the overall quality of public education, and you're going to exacerbate, not remedy, inequalities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative \"could wreak havoc on the delivery of public education in the state,\" said John Affeldt, managing attorney for Public Advocates, which is representing organizations and families \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicadvocates.org/campaign-for-quality-education-v-california\" target=\"_blank\">challenging the constitutionality\u003c/a> of California's school funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems at first blush to be more about an online provider's bill of rights to get public money to provide online courses than an initiative to make sure we have equitable access to education for all kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund said, \"The initiative is not designed to destroy public education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California as a state has pushed educational innovation into the private and charter school space. If that's where we want to go, then keep it up,\" he said. \"But if we want our kids in public schools to have access to the same type of high-quality education they can have elsewhere, we need to switch it up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The Old West'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund's proposal comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577030600066250144.html?\" target=\"_blank\">more students\u003c/a> are going to school by logging on to their computers. At least 15,000 students in California are enrolled in full-time online charter schools, and more than 3,600 were enrolled at Riverside Virtual School, the largest district-run program in the state in 2009-10, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://kpk12.com/states/california/\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> by the Evergreen Education Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike many states that have embraced – or at least accepted – online education, California has stayed on the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no statewide provision for online learning in California. It's all facilitated through individual districts who make up their own thing as they go along; consequently, it's like the Old West,\" Haglund said. \"You've got everybody and their grandmother out there doing something, but nobody knows what that something is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers – including state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson when he was a state assemblyman – have tried repeatedly to expand access to online education through changes to ADA guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torlakson is currently assembling an advisory board to rethink technology in the classroom and is looking to raise $250,000 to fund its work. His long-term goal is to provide every student with a digital learning device, said Jason Spencer, a legislative representative for the superintendent. Although funding online education is a piece of the puzzle, it's an issue for the Legislature to decide, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haglund and his colleagues at Education Forward, a nonprofit formed to sponsor the initiative, said they are tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is it possible for the Legislature in Sacramento to deal with this much more quickly and efficiently than this process? Yeah, absolutely,\" said Rick Miller, superintendent of Riverside Unified and a director at Education Forward. \"But they haven't done it. It doesn't mean they can't and they won't – they just haven't. How long should we wait?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller and Haglund said they are sponsoring the initiative as individuals, not on behalf of their district. But their experience in Riverside has helped them craft some guidelines for online education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the initiative, only online courses approved by UC and schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges would be eligible for public funds. Student participation in virtual learning would be voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it's cleared by the state for circulation – a target date is set for next month – the initiative will need 504,760 signatures to qualify for the November 2012 ballot. More than likely, it won't be the only online education proposal Californians see next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language in the initiative could end up in legislation next year, said Jeff Frost, a lobbyist for several education organizations and school districts, including Riverside Unified. 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More than 12 percent of American adults \u003ca href=\"http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/tech/tablets.vs.ereaders_1_e-reader-barnes-noble-s-nook-tablet-computer?_s=PM:TECH\">owned an e-reader as of May\u003c/a>, according to a Pew study, and 8 percent owned tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books being read on those devices were conceived originally for print. Words and ideas have been designed to fit on the physical page. Even for those books that do include videos or audio recordings, they've typically been added as afterthoughts, or as ancillary pieces to the primary content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not even close to maximizing the potential of the tablet,\" said MacInnis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tablets and e-readers duke it out for the market share, Inkling is working on blowing out the digital book as we know it. Though the company started by digitally rendering existing print textbooks only for the iPad -- currently, there are about 100 book titles -- it's poised to become a major player in the publishing industry. But rather than creating content, the tech company will provide the platform that can transcend any device, whether that's an iPad, a Kindle -- or even a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BEYOND EDUCATIONAL BOOKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of Inkling's titles are in education, but it's starting to dabble beyond that market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It's not even close to maximizing the potential of the tablet.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Inkling engineering is being used to create digital books out of blogs. 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Both titles have received \u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com/press\">rave reviews\u003c/a> for their luscious images, explanatory videos, and ease of use. \"The multimedia features elevate it from a how-to guide to something rivaling a small group class,\" \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/open-air-publishing/\">writes Mashable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling also produced the epic \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/professional-chef-cia-9th/\">\u003cem>The Professional Chef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the Culinary Institute of America. The book in its entirety costs $50, but you can also purchase individual chapters for $3 a piece. The new model makes book buying much like buying music -- choose only the pieces you like best. MacInnis fluidly demonstrates how to float from one chapter to the next, launch videos, close in on images, tap on sidebars and recipe instructions. It's like watching a magician performing sleight-of-hand tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books Inkling has created thus far are what MacInnis calls a \"means to an end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s all a way for us to illustrate for the world what’s possible. Simple things like rendering images into 3D, we can scale pretty well. But when you get to thinking about the hierarchy of knowledge you have to traverse in order to be an expert in a specific topic, you start to build the book very differently than you would have done in print,\" he said. \"We can take a textbook to an Inkling title in six weeks, but we can't create a pure Inkling experience in six weeks, because there’s no shortcut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-02-at-12.48.03-PM-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Inkling\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Inkling is in the midst of producing multiple projects that will take years to create because they're building native digital content. \"You'll see stuff that will be much more beautiful and much more interesting in structure,\" he said, though he would not elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TABLET OR E-READER?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we’ve done is platform agnostic,\" MacInnis said. The underlying information allowing the iPad to render, for example, the 3D molecule in its science books is not specific to the iPad. \"It’s a piece of software for the iPad, but there’s another piece of software that will be able to render that in a Web browser or in a different device.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacInnis is keeping a close eye on the tablet and e-reader market, but he points out one very obvious extension: \"We’re constantly looking at the world of digital readers, the Nook color, Kindle Fire, some of the Google devices. It’s all super interesting to us,\" he said. \"But there’s one device that everyone has, which is a laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means when Inkling launches books for other platforms (though the timing has yet to be determined), all the content it's produced until now -- everything from Erik Foner's history book \u003cem>Give Me Liberty!\u003c/em> to the just released \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/living-with-art-mark-getlein-9th/\">\u003cem>Living With Art\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- will instantly be available in these other platforms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COMING TO K-12, TOO?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though most of the titles under Inkling's belt are geared for higher education, MacInnis sees the K-12 market as ripe for the medium. \"We fully expect that Inkling will be in the K-12 world,\" he said. \"It’s already in use in that space, and we plan to make ourselves known to that audience more aggressively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling currently works with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and WW Norton, all of which have titles in K-12 space. And private prep schools use Inkling titles for their advanced placement courses. \"They’re deploying the technology already, making substantial investments in devices, so we’re being very opportunistic about it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens in the K-12 realm depends on what publishers decide to do. \"What features the Inkling platform supports -- monitoring and reporting, the sorts of things you need in a controlled K-12 environment -- we may or may not choose to do depending on where the market pulls us,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE VALUE OF DIGITAL IN LEARNING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lovely as they are to behold and consume, the million-dollar question is whether Inkling books provide more value to the learning process than print books. The company addresses this in different ways, allowing for easy searching, for social-networked note-taking and highlighting to allow for robust group discussions online, and quizzes and self-assessment tools so learners know when they're ready to move on to the next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is there any evidence showing students actually perform better using Inkling books? \"We want to get better at understanding the real measurable educational outcomes that occurs as a result of using inkling,\" MacInnis said. To that end, the Virginia Department of Education recently conducted a program that showed students using Inkling books improved their A.P. scores over the course of an entire year faster than those that didn't, according to MacInnis. \"Anecdotally, it shows that there’s some positive correlation,\" he said. \"But that's \u003cem>if\u003c/em> higher SAT outcomes is what you’re going after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's the secret sauce? 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