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Announcing AI Platform & Online Curriculum

Press Release Silicon Valley High School Announces Groundbreaking AI-Powered Platform and Online Curriculum for the 2023-2024 School Year With Over 46,000 Students Enrolled to Date, and Curriculum of More Than 60 Video-Based Courses, SVHS Accelerates Growth with AI Tools and Capabilities;  Reinvents the Traditional Approach with a Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom Model at the Forefront of […]

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The SVHS Content Management System

In the late 1990’s I built a web browser and online service for kids called SurfMonkey. It was possibly the first Internet-enabled app, designed to open the Internet to kids, making the experience fun, safe and easy.  I was convinced that the world wide web would become the world’s biggest library and the most valuable

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The SVHS Server Platform

When we set up our online education platform here at Silicon Valley High School in 2013, we were operating with a dedicated physical server running in a colocation data center.  This was a good solution, until we had to upgrade the server. At that point, we had to migrate all our software and data to

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The SVHS Learning Management System

The backbone of our education technology platform is Moodle, an open source learning management system.  More accurately, you will see that we built our own learning management system using source code from the Moodle community. A learning management system (LMS) is a software platform that enables organizations to create, manage, and deliver online courses and

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The SVHS LAMP Stack Software Platform

As I embark on this education technology blog, discussing how technology can be harnessed to provide a more effective and efficient form of online education, I decided to start with the fundamental software development platform and discuss open source and the LAMP stack. Here at Silicon Valley High School, we haven’t always been dedicated to

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