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…
The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education by Terry Heick This isn’t an anti-Apple piece; it’s about symmetry. The discussion about learning with tablets is a difficult one to push critically. Conversations here gradually trend toward apps, cost, equity, or even the consumption versus production argument. Rarely, however, do they extend fully to the…
Adaptive learning programs can allow educators and students to identify knowledge gaps and tailor instruction and learning accordingly.
It is incumbent upon leaders to harness the power of digital technology to create school transparent, meaningful, engaged school cultures.
Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows people to share and skim a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time.
Why I Hate School But Love Education That “school,” as it is, could be improved isn’t a new argument. How to make those improvements to revise our “systems” of learning in light of modern technology access and cultural patterns is why organizations like TeachThought, Edutopia, and so many others exist. With so many talented teachers…
Adaptive courses mean that they are not stuck reviewing content they already know rather than content they don’t.
The ability to ‘rethink’ as well as effectively question what you read and see and hear are two of the most powerful ideas in 21st-century teaching.
by Becky Fisher Hi, it’s nice to meet you! My name is Becky and I work in education technology. I’m from New York and I live in San Francisco. I used to teach elementary school music. And this is not an interesting story; you don’t want to keep reading. But in an era of social…
This project embraces a constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others.
This basic lesson design closely follows the gradual release of responsibility model and has been used as a template for decades in schools.
Long gone are the days when Google was simply an Internet search engine–in the space of just a few years, it has become a purveyor of every kind of tech product across all categories: Android, Chrome, Maps, Google+, Hangouts. Now students and teachers in K-12 schools may be joining the long list of gaga Google…
As a student, I want to feel like I’m in the 21st century, both in and out of the classroom.
Thought it needed a lot of work, it highlighted a couple of things: how much work writing really is.