Archive: 2013
Personalized Learning
My Hour of Code
The usability was just one of many things that I loved about my Hour of Code. The lesson included student choice and chunked information into digestible amounts. I was challenged and engaged, while being provided constant and immediate feedback. And the best part, I was left wanting to know and do more.
Leadership
K-12 Breakthrough School Models from NGLC
This updated set of K-12 Breakthrough School Models profiles is an excellent resource and serves as motivation for all in the world of education.
EdTech
3 Reasons Why Tech Must Be a Part Of a Personal Finance Class
There are numerous resources dedicated to teaching students how to be safe and responsible online. My favorite resource is OnGuardOnline.
Personalized Learning
Do We Really Need to Teach Coding?
“An understanding of coding can provide a strong foundation for many degrees and career paths, including computer science, where there are three times more computing jobs than graduates,” said Annabel Cellini, SVP of Strategic Marketing, Pearson Learning Solutions.
Personalized Learning
Teaching Civilized Discourse: 4 Essential Lessons for Online Discussion
To teachers of writing, publication often means posting on a bulletin board something written in the student’s best handwriting. But let’s face it, publication nowadays means posting anything online for others to consume, and that includes emails, discussion boards, and status updates. More than ever, our sentences matter.
Leadership
Next-Gen Advisory: 10 Keys to College & Career Readiness
All of the great high schools that I visit have a strong distributed counseling system and advisory structure--a souped up homeroom that promotes a sustained relationship with an advisor, academic monitoring and management, and links to services.
Uncategorized
Children as Makers
How do you encourage kids to be curious, to build things and take things apart, and to become the designers and engineers of the future? Be supportive! MAKE has a great short video about children as makers by engineering professor and maker mom AnneMarie Thomas.
EdTech
SAS Curriculum Pathways Provides Online Resources at No Cost
SAS Curriculum Pathways can be implemented at the district, school or individual classroom level. This highly interactive curriculum resource provides teachers with specific topic related lessons as well as interactive skill building tools.
Personalized Learning
10 Elements of Next-Generation Higher Education
Next-gen higher education systems will share 10 elements resulting in broader access, stackable credits/credentials, and higher completion rates.
EdTech
20 Posts to Help Students Learn to Code
The real goal of the Hour of Code is to bring computer science courses into every school, making it part of the math and science core curriculum and already seems to be working. We are already hearing about a lot of growth happening for coding in schools.