Posts by Greg Garner
Personalized Learning
No Adult Left Behind: 3 Tips for Rethinking Teacher Roles
It’s important to acknowledge the ways that staff are being leveraged. You might need some patience and persistence. Here are three tips for rethinking roles and getting the best use out of your staff.
Leadership
Undoing EduSpeak and Why Words Matter
A joint effort between boots-on-the-ground educators that are utilizing and implementing learning pedagogies with their students, in coordination with researchers and policy-makers is required to unpack and undo EduSpeak.
EdTech
Mozilla and the Quest for Universal Web Literacy
Since schools and organizations will utilize the software created by companies like Mozilla, it’s increasingly important that there be open dialogue keeping the free exchange of ideas flowing. It is here that we get to the crux of whole-scale change: universal web literacy
EdTech
Edmodo: A Platform Redefining Learning
Edmodo is quietly, consistently positioning itself not just as the glue to hold your technology-enhanced learning initiatives together, but the rocket fuel that it will need to redefine what learning looks like now and in the future.
EdTech
WriteReader: Flipping the Script on Literacy
WriteReader provides young learners an informal learning environment where they are free to experiment with the written language based on their knowledge of the spoken language. Students gain confidence and exposure to the world around them and the ways they are processing it.
EdTech
What To Do When Your Favorite Tech Tool Calls it Quits
Sometimes it’s the result of a buy-out, or sometimes the company just can’t monetize their product. Either way here are some tips to consider when your favorite tech tool shuts down its service.
EdTech
Bridging the Gap from Living Room to Classroom: FreshGrade
What if the communication line between parent and educator was truly open? Enter FreshGrade, a Learning Collaboration System that helps educators document student learning and progress through photo, video, work samples, and more.
Personalized Learning
2015 Edu-Resolutions, Behavior Change, and Idealism
Resolutions aren’t about idealistic goals that you have no intention of keeping. It's about behavior change. It’s about completely altering the way you choose to make a difference and then making the monthly, weekly, or daily decisions to act.
Personalized Learning
Coding in the Classroom: So Much More Than An Hour
Teaching students to code today very well could mean the need to completely re-think the way we’ve done education. And it’s about time.
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Coding in the Classroom: So Much More Than an Hour
Teaching students to code today very well could mean the need to completely re-think the way we’ve done education. And it’s about time.