How The World Is Changing & How Education Can Respond
The world is changing, but that’s always been true since the world began. What is worth examining is the pace and scale and effects of those changes.
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When They Don’t Want Privacy: Why Students Should Study Social Media
Understanding social media is more than using it in the same way that understanding physics is more than simply being affected by gravity.
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5 Ways Any School Can Be A 21st Century School
The possibility of 21st century schools & a unique academic “identity” emerging across the US have been reduced in pursuit of uniformity.
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Critical Knowledge: 4 Domains More Important Than Academics
The idea here is to clarify the kinds of critical knowledge that create actual change in the lives of students and communities.
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How Can We Improve Education?
How can we improve education? Our current system is designed to publish common goals that drive our common actions and performance.
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How Teaching Is Changing: 15 Challenges For The Modern Teacher
A modern teacher has to demonstrate for students not how to solve problems, but why those problems should be solved.
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5 Priorities For Transformative Schools
The current debate over standards is a sign of ignorance. It consumes us, but offers empty calories, not sustenance for a deeper journey
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Generation Screen: What Social Media Has Done To Children
For some in ‘Generation Screen,’ things that are ‘viral’ can be seen as preferable to things that affect and endure.
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Should Colleges Judge Social Media Presence for Admissions?
Without guidance to critically think about digital footprints, persona, and audience, it’s no surprise to see students ‘make mistakes’ on social media.
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The Future Is Not Digital & Technology Is Just A Tool
Technology Is Just A Tool by Jennifer Rita Nichols Most educators can agree that the biggest trend in education today has to do with technology integration. As more and more schools find ways to use technology in the classroom and across subject areas, teachers are trying multitudes of techniques for effective integration that promotes student…
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Let Students Lead
Learning trends aren’t about preparation, but mitigation. We need to stop chasing students and start leading them, instead.
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Create The Learning Environment You Want Using Virtual Reality
Have a specific reason for engaging with virtual reality in the classroom, with clear objectives to make virtual reality meaningful.
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50 Reasons It’s Time For Smartphones In Every Classroom
33. Students can have choice in terms of apps, platforms, social channels, assessment style, and so on. Smartphones can support this.
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How The SAMR Model Can Be Used A Framework For Education 3.0
The SAMR model was developed as a framework to integrate education technology into the modern K-12 curriculum.
