Posts by Tom Vander Ark
Living With Smart Machines
As part of our #AskAboutAI series we discuss how, for billions of people, life at home will improve rapidly over the next decade as machine intelligence augments human intelligence.
A Great Early Start in Kansas City: Operation Breakthrough
Operation Breakthrough is a remarkable early learning program in Kansas City, Missouri, that helps at-risk children ages 6 weeks to 14 years learn how to be successful in school and life.
On Balancing Improvement & Innovation
Innovations such as personalized and competency-based learning mean doing things differently, which can be hard work. Here are 10 tips to help EdLeaders balance improvement and innovation.
Leading Online and Offline: New Book Offers 6 Tips for EdLeaders
Blending Leadership, the new book from Stephen Valentine and Reshan Richards, is a quick, story filled, illustrated set of six suggestions for school leaders.
Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
Vancouver has been an education leader for 180 years. VPS is piloting open math curriculum to provide a common, coherent, guaranteed curriculum.
Getting Smart Podcast | CASEL: Leading Advocate for Social Emotional Learning
Why is Social Emotional Learning (SEL) important in schools? Roger Weissberg, chief knowledge officer of The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and SEL expert, shares more in this podcast.
Open Up: High Quality Standards-Aligned Math Curriculum
The newly launched nonprofit Open Up Resources offers openly licensed, standards-aligned educational resources that are accessible to all students, regardless of first language or special needs.
Hot: #OnlineLearning #MakerSpace; On the #EdTech Horizon: #VR, #AI
The predictions of the 2016 NMC/CoSN Horizon Report include that this year's hot tech topics, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality and wearables, will become widespread in education in a few years. Here is a summary of the report's findings.
AI is Improving Healthcare… But Will Benefits Be Widely Shared?
The rise in artificial intelligence means big changes to the education and employment landscapes. This week we consider how AI is promoting health and changing healthcare in our #AskAboutAI series.
#AskAboutAI: Learning to See and Speak
Our new #AskAboutAI blog series is designed to encourage parents, teachers, mentors and advisors to talk to young people about the emerging automation economy, and the ethical and economic implications of artificial intelligence (AI).