Archive: 2018
Future of Learning
Preparing Students for Future Work: What is the Gig Economy?
We can help prepare students for the new gig economy by offering more opportunities for them to explore and create, through opportunities to not only explore the types of jobs available but also job shadow to learn firsthand, the qualifications and skills that may be necessary.
EdTech
Education Technology is a Global Opportunity
By: Emmanuel Nataf. It isn’t exactly going to be smooth sailing from here, but with continued capital inflows and a population that increasingly embraces EdTech, it’s hard not to see the trend ticking up for EdTech both globally and in Asia.
EdTech
The Implications of Gartner’s Top 10 Tech Trends of 2018 for Education
By: Jim Goodell, Liz Glowa and Brandt Redd. Education often falls behind the business world in realizing the potential of new technologies. There are, however, a few bright spots where the timing might be right for the tech trends in the business world to have a positive impact in education sooner rather than later.
Early Learning
The Future of Work = Early Learning Today
By: Isabelle Hau. The ability for children to succeed in learning, especially with the complex skills they will need in 2030 and beyond, is closely linked to their early learning experience. The only way to ensure our children will be prepared for success is to give them a strong start now.
EdTech
Virtual Reality in the Classroom is Becoming the New Norm
By: Rae Steinbach. While VR technology still has a ways to go, it already offers the opportunity to cross cultural boundaries, discover new pedagogical approaches, and revolutionize the classroom. Learn more here.
Personalized Learning
The Problem With Responsible Students
Students with agency, on the other hand, are not responsible in the sense that they have embraced the agenda of the adults and comply with it, rather they are reliable and cooperative in pursuing their learning.
Leadership
The Student Role in Formative Assessment: How I Know Practitioner Guide
One of the key distinguishers of formative assessment lies in the relationship between a student and teacher in the shared ownership of assessing what students know and are able to do. This guide can help practitioners of formative assessment develop and hone that shared ownership.
Future of Learning
The Only Constant is Change: Adjusting Our Practices to Meet the World’s Expectations
Anna Durfee shares with you a few small changes your school can make in order to better prepare students for the future of work and the rapid, and sometimes alarming, changes that come with it.
Early Learning
Early Childhood: What We Know, and What’s Possible
We know early learning matters… and it matters a lot. We also know that all early learning experiences and are not created equal, nor are they available to all students and families. This post is the first in a series looking at how we can do better.
Personalized Learning
Fueling a Vision of Student-Centered, Personalized Learning through Student Voice
My challenge to myself - and to all of us - today is to ask a handful of kids these two important questions: What do you want to learn? What do you want to do?