7 Characteristics Of A Digitally Competent Teacher
If you can shop online, you can teach online. Digital skills are transferable.
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What Were The Breakthrough Technologies For 2014?
What Were The Breakthrough Technologies For 2014? Whether you’re a proponent of technology, are wary but willing, or against it entirely, it’s impossible not to be intrigued by its rapid development. While “technology” is a relative term, and thus always been a cultural factor, we have become a obsessed with it as a planet. So…
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Teaching With Video Games Makes More Sense Now Than Ever
5 Reasons Teaching With Video Games Makes More Sense Now Than Ever by Paul Darvasi, ludiclearning.org Today there are more and more instances of schools creating curricular spaces for commercial video games. Initially, a few rogue teachers slipped them in through the back door, but over the past decade more schools and districts have rolled out…
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The New Commercial Education
For a quick read and a little humor, here is some bullet-point sarcasm about the “new commercial education” from Wendell Berry (via The Joy Of Sales Resistance, from his short collections of essays Sex, Economy, Freedom, And Community.) He’s talking more about universities than K-12, but, well, it’s all the same isn’t it? “Actually, as we know, the new…
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The Difference Between Updating And Rebooting Your Classroom
The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there sky is falling panic, or the more things change the more they stay the same indifference. There really isn’t any…
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22 Things We Do As Educators That Will Embarrass Us In 25 Years
What do we, as educators, do now that in 25 years we’ll look back on and shake our heads in embarrassment?
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What Is Oculus Rift? A Virtual Reality Headset Owned By Facebook
Oculus Rift is one of the pioneering virtual reality headsets originally crowd-funded and eventually purchased by Facebook.
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2015-2020: The Rise Of The Teacherpreneur
With the growth of app development & personalized learning, the next five plus years will see the rise of the teacherpreneur.
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What The Data Says About Students’ 21st Century Readiness
What The Data Says About Students’ 21st Century Readiness 21st century skills is a term that’s been bandied about for over a decade now. Loosely, it refers to the creative and technology-based skills students are increasingly required to demonstrate to use information in the real world. While there’s plenty of tools, leadership, strategies, and even…
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10 Digital Citizenship Hashtags To Join The Conversation
As we’ve theorized before, we could consider the definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.” One very natural and accessible way to see that kind of thinking in action is twitter. In contrast to relatively closed social media platforms like…
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The Challenges Of Data Collection In The Classroom?
How do we display data so that it is accessible? If teachers are given this data, what do they with it to improve outcomes for students?
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7 Global Education Facts & Statistics That Reflect A Changing World
We need to prepare students for a world where borders are blurred and learning about other cultures is as ubiquitous as learning to read.
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Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom
I take advantage of opportunities in my community, and through a network of my friends and family.
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Crowdsourcing In Education: 11 Underlying Principles
by Chris Yim, UClass.io Crowsourcing is huge in other industries, but has yet to affect education It doesnt make sense that teachers are recreating lessons over and over again With the Common Core transition, it makes more sense than ever that teachers would be exchanging best practices and methods that work Why is the content landscape so…
