Posts by Tom Vander Ark
Future of Learning
Three Shifts as Big as Print to Digital
We just lived through the biggest shift in learning since the printing press—a 25-year shift from print to digital. As Tom explains, that set the stage for three shifts that will change what and how people learn.
SEL & Mindset
Starting Career Education in Middle School
American Student Association is changing the way they approach young people by helping students know themselves.
Project-Based Learning
Mentors Enhance Project-Based Learning
Tom explores Patty Alper'stheory that mentors enhance Project-Based Learning and shares examples of mentor projects in action.
Network Effect
Network of Place-Based Community-Connected Rural Schools Receive Grant to Expand
Small community-connected schools sharing resources in networks & leveraging local learning opportunities may be the solution to the rural education decline.
Featured
The Promise & Challenge of Student-Centered Learning
From the role of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to policy levers each state should have, Tom takes a deep look into the promise, and challenge, of student-centered learning.
Future of Learning
Let’s Talk About AI Ethics; We’re On a Deadline
Code that learns is both powerful and dangerous. AI requires a new technical and civic infrastructure, a new way to conduct business, a new way to be together in community. It’s time to #AskAboutAI. It’s time for community conversations about the ethics and opportunities of our time.
Leadership
Helping CAOs Make the Shift to Personalized Learning
Explore the difference between managed instruction and next generation learning, and learn ten elements of comprehensive solutions to the challenge of helping chief academic officers reframe their work.
EdTech
El Paso Schools: How the NTN Partnership Accelerated Progress
In 2015-2016, El Paso Independent School District formed a partnership with New Tech Networks. Our latest Case Study shows how this partnership fostered real progress and real results.
Leadership
What Should Graduates Know and Be Able to Do?
Tom sat down with Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21, to discuss community engagement and the role it plays in answering "What should grads know and be able to do?" Here's what he learned.
Future of Work
Early Entrants Into the Field of Teaching Blockchain
The blockchain technology market is rapidly growing and according to the largest global freelancing website, Upwork, the demand for blockchain job skills grew six thousand percent in just the first quarter of this year. In this post, Tom explores different programs to help learn these skills.