Difference Making
3 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Career Search
By: Annie Mais. RoadTrip Nations has found that it is possible, at any age, to let go of preconceived ideas about who you are and what you should be, and to build a life doing what you love. Here are some tips about how you can also find what you want to do and how to get started right away.
EdTech
EdTech 10: U.S. Open (Educational Resources)
What stood out in this week’s EdTech news was an emphasis on open educational resources, aka OER. Developing news surrounding OER should be expected since the passing of ESSA, as the bill includes specific language that allows states and local education agencies to channel grant money focused on technology toward OER. I
Ed Policy
What States Need to Know Now About ESSA
By: The Ed Fly. With the passage of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), states face an incredibly complex transition filled with both opportunities and potential perils. But states should not overreact. Here are five things states need to know about school accountability.
Leadership
How to Prepare Globally Competent Students
By: Anamaria Knight. If you are interested in a few more instructional strategies that can be used across disciplines to support students in developing key global competence skills, here are some examples.
Leadership
Music Builds a Maker Mindset: The Power of the Performing Arts
There are countless benefits to the performing arts, including the promotion of cross-curricular learning and the formation of innovation mindsets in students as they learn to combine effort, initiative, and collaboration.
EdTech
Intelligence Unleashed: How Artificial Intelligence Will Improve Education
Pearson and the UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London, launched an important new paper entitled 'Intelligence Unleashed: An Argument for AI in Education.' The authors call AIEd, “the engine behind much ‘smart’ EdTech,” as well as a powerful tool providing “deeper, and more fine-grained understandings of how learning actually happens.”
Personalized Learning
7 Ways PBL World Models Project-Based Learning
When you attend a conference that focuses on gold standard Project Based Learning, you really hope the conference not only talks about high quality PBL but also models PBL done well. With that in mind, here are seven ways PBL World gets it right.
EdTech
Honest Self-Help for Students, Teachers and Learning Professionals
Dr. Cary J Green’s Leadership and Soft Skills for Students: Empowered to Succeed in High School, College, and Beyond took me a bit by surprise because I was reading it not to help myself (or so I thought!), but to help my students.
Personalized Learning
7 Key Findings From the Babson Online Report Card
This post presents some highlights from Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States, the thirteenth (and final) annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education.
Leadership
Defining and Differentiating Personalized Learning, Blended Learning and Competency Education
iNACOL has taken steps to define key terms in the field to generate shared meaning and challenge misconceptions and misunderstandings. 'Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended and Competency Education' describes terms and their key nuances in greater detail.