Archive: 2016
5 Emerging Trends in Project-Based Learning
By: Rosie Clayton. How will innovative strategies such as internship integration and games-based learning impact the future of project-based learning? Here are five examples of schools pushing boundaries of PBL.
7 Great Educational Online Games
By: Kate Thora. A growing body of evidence suggests that teachers can use video games to help kids have fun while learning. The key is selecting games that help develop critical thinking and other deeper learning skills. Here are seven examples.
Infographic | Math Success for English Language Learners
By: Heera Kang. Math skills are the top predictor for student success. With language-heavy instructional methods commonplace, how can English Language Learners (ELLs) have the same access to these essential skills?
Eight Things Students Should Know About The New Media Literacy
What can educators do about the spread of fake news and their students' inability to recognize when they have been fooled? Teaching them these eight lessons is a good start.
Innovating Large-Scale Assessments: Design Considerations for Education Leaders
By: Dr. Stuart Kahl. Interest in innovative assessment practices is growing, and it is important to capitalize on this momentum with new assessment strategies that emphasize higher order skills while minimizing the burden placed on schools.
A School District Business Leader Goes Back To School
By: Brian Adesso. It’s easy to get caught up in the operational side of running a school district when you work in the business office, so I decided to take a step back and experience our school district from the students’ perspective.
Closing the Last Mile of Career Opportunity in Rural America
By: Andrew Grover. Schools in rural America face unique challenges, but with them comes the opportunity to ignite innovative changes. Providing these students digital learning can unlock opportunities that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
Four University Technologies That Will Become Obsolete by 2020
By: Jason Konesco. While technologies that currently work on college campuses should be enhanced, integrated and supplemented with modern tools, here are four that will see extinction in the coming years.
Expanding the Frontier of Teacher Impact
By: Thomas Arnett. Emerging innovations can empower teachers to make a greater difference in a more sustainable way. With the help of new software and new instructional models, schools are expanding the frontier of teacher impact.
HigherEd Approaches to Empowering Students
By: Jeffrey Partridge. Often in higher ed, place-based pedagogy implementation is left to individual educators. However, here are several examples of colleges that make place-based education central to their identity, and an exploration of the benefits they have discovered from doing so.