Post-Industrial Pedagogy
Quality and access to education continue to top the list of education priorities in countries across the world. But finding balance between both access and quality is something policy makers, educators and community leaders have wrestled with for decades.
10 Ways K-12 Is Becoming More Like Cisco Academy
With more than 1M enrolled students and about 40,000 assessments weekly, Cisco Networking Academy is the biggest classroom in the world. In 10 ways US K-12 education is becoming more like NetAcademy: relevant, blended, competency-based, with games, sims, and online assessments.
Design-Focused University–The Best Thing Since French Fries (Which Are Also Belgian)
A recent trip to Europe took Tom to Howest, a University that’s known for their approach to learning and research and close collaboration with industry and the social sector. Learn how Howest and MyMachine are making design thinking as common in Belgian schools as Frites are on dinner tables
EdTech 10: 20 Years from Now, Learning Will Look Like This
This week’s EdTech 10 is inspired by the predictions and energy from the voices and positivity generated from our exploration of what learning will look like in the year 2035.
Online Learning Keeps Sisters Together
Two sisters from Nevada, Kaleigh and Danielle Fair, graduated from high school together the other day. As this touching video shows, the odds against these young women were extraordinary. Their school, Nevada Virtual Academy, and the teachers there evened those odds and made their journey together across the commencement stage and through their high school experience possible.
Cybersecurity: A Promising Approach to Integrating CompSci and PBL
To maximize the benefits of computer science education, we should be looking for ways to bring it into authentic PBL--but that is an undeniably tall order. One way is through data science. Another, it turns out, is through cybersecurity.
Charter Schools and CBP in Washington State
The sector has learned how to open great schools, and those lessons are being put to work in Washington State. Charter Board Partners will help make sure every charter school in Washington has a great board and that every student in Washington has the chance to attend a great school.
Reinventing the Education Conference: Co-Creating Professional Development and Social Connections in Real Time
By: Lydia Dobyns. New Tech Network created a virtual gathering called “Beyond NTAC” as an opportunity for Imagining Beyond the traditional work of school from July 13-16, 2020.
What Does Educational Success Look Like? Depends on Who’s Doing the Looking
By: Kurt Bauer. What does success look like? It’s not all that unique or profound, but it’s still a question that gets at the core of the staggeringly enormous apple that we call education. When will we know we’ve accomplished our goals? How do we recognize when we’ve achieved our purpose?
‘League of Innovative Schools’ District on Improving Low-Income Student Outcomes
One district facing the challenge of engaging and improving outcomes of low-income students is Middletown City School District, a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Their ambitious goal is to create learning opportunities that increase outcomes, regardless of family income.