Archive: Aug 2013
Personalized Learning

Innovation Happens at the School House

Guest Author

Creating good governance and culture can’t just fall on the principal. A school needs governance to innovate. The Governance Councils can connect with the school’s community and offer support and insight.”
EdTech

Fun New Apps for Learning From edshelf

Guest Author

From enabling memorization through multimedia to practicing social skills via simulated situations, here are six notable tools that were added to edshelf in the past week by educators such as yourselves.
Personalized Learning

Reality Check: Why I Left My Dream Job to Teach Online

Dave Guymon

Why leave the comforts of a 5-star school where I had built a positive reputation as a very identifiable face in the community to teach at a school with a much lower ranking and where some of my students won’t actually ever see my face at all? I did it because I believe in the power of online technology.
EdTech

Free 3D Models Help Students

wkehl

The best way to learn anatomy is to look at real bones and real bodies - anyone who dissected a frog in high school knows that the tidy multi-colored diagrams found in textbooks rarely do justice to the real thing. But there are several problems: besides the ick factor, real bodies aren't always easily accessible or affordable. 3D anatomical models have existed for some time but these, too, aren't always affordable. Luckily, several free sources of 3D models exist. Even better, recent research suggests that they help students learn about biological systems.
Personalized Learning

Best Practices in Alternative & Competency-Based Learning

Tom Vander Ark

In short, Edvisions wants to change the school day to change the learning life. They transition from spoon feeding (traditional public education) to showing students they’re able to start feeding themselves with choice about their education based on their interest.
EdTech

EdTech 10: Better Together

Getting Smart Staff

Getting together and being ultra productive feels like the theme for the week because there sure seems to be a lot happening among the movers and shakers in education.
Leadership

Who Owns Our Professional Learning?

Susan Davis

My professional learning this summer has pushed my thinking and helped me grow tremendously. I hope to be a better teacher and a more helpful colleague as a result.