Archive: 2017
How Virtual Reality and Embodied Learning Could Disrupt Education
VR is best used to get around the impossible, the expensive and the dangerous. It is also best when it enables an experience of embodiment. Here's what that means.
Education in the Innovation Economy
By: John Eger. Many tech CEOs prefer employees with liberal arts degrees, as “the liberal arts train students to thrive in subjectivity and ambiguity, a necessary skill in the tech world where few things are black and white.” Learn more here.
How Project-Based Learning Unleashes Students’ Creativity
By: Pamela Brennan and Brandi Zivilik. Two teachers share their experiences of how PBL inspires students to collaborate with each other and connect with their local communities.
Broken Windows: The Powerful Effect of Environment on Behavior
By: Anna Durfee. How environment can impact our behavior and the experience students have in the classroom. What are we doing to mend the broken windows we see?
What is Agentic Learning and Why is it Important?
Fostering student agency may seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are many pedagogical approaches that, when implemented well, lead to engagement and intrinsic motivation, providing opportunities for students to develop agency.
5 Ways to Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day
Today is National STEM/STEAM Day, and we want to take the opportunity to celebrate and come together over the importance of STEAM education. Here are five fun projects that can get students interested today.
The Future Is Always Uncertain. So How Should Educators Prepare Today’s Learners?
By: Jenny Abamu and Tony Wan. Having a plan for the future requires understanding what the future will look like. In this post, we look at a recent keynote address on this topic by Tom Vander Ark at the EdSurge Fusion conference.
At The Intersection of Creativity and Critical Thinking
Generally speaking, creativity is associated with generating ideas, while critical thinking is associated with judging them. In practice, however, the two are not so easy to separate. In this post, we explore their relationship in greater detail.
Competency-Based Micro-credentials are Transforming Professional Learning
It's time to make way for micro-credentials -- the future of professional learning. There is nothing micro about how competency-based credentials have the potential to change the professional learning game on a MACRO-level.
Closing the Digital Divide to Ensure the Future of Learning
There are three critical challenges facing efforts to move towards equitable access to EdTech for all students. Here's how we can face them.