Future of Learning
How User Design Can Impact Engagement and Learning for K-12 Students
By: Danielle Reid. Daniel shares how user interface (UI) design and, more broadly, user experience (UX) design – can be the deciding factor for the level of impact an education application or platform has on a student, particularly in the K-12 market.
It’s Time to Separate Facilities From Operations
The way we build, manage and maintain public school buildings is inefficient and exacerbates some of the biggest challenges in education. It's time for us to rethink the relationship between learning programs and public facilities. Tom proposes a change to how facilities are provided for public education programming.
Augmented Reality in Kindergarten?
By: Katrina Youdale. The benefits of introducing AR to young learners supports collaboration, improved communication and empowers self-directed learning. These skills will support students throughout their holistic learning continuum and prepare them for innovations connected to the future of learning and work.
5 Ways to Personalize Learning with Project-Based Learning
Michael Niehoff discusses how we can use personalized learning in a more deeper learning pursuit, such as project-based learning.
Driving Innovation: Accelerators
By: Norton Gusky. Norton shares more about The CoSN K-12 Driving Innovation Series with three reports - Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers.
Assume Good Intentions: Lessons for Responsive Family Engagement
Amanda Winkelsas shares the case for teachers, students, and parents to all be involved and lessons around positive family engagement.
Inspiring and Supporting English Learners with Adaptive Tools
With a mission to make the classroom a better place by offering innovative tools to meet learners where they are, iReady by Curriculum Associates provides a personalized approach that increases collaboration with families and teachers.
Arizona State Accelerates Progress with Adaptive Active Courses
Thanks to an initiative to bring adaptive active blended learning to classrooms, ASU is meeting students where they are and making class time high-value engagement.
Bad Bargain: Why We Still Ask Kids to Factor Polynomials and How We Fix It
Algebra has become an inequitable barrier to college and career. It’s time to stop making learners factor polynomials. It’s time to start using computers for what they’re good at--crunch big data sets. Stop asking young people to manipulate systems and start asking them to solve real problems.
Developing 21st Century Skills and Content Knowledge Through Dance
David Ross explores how dance experiences assist children in cultivating the 21st-century skills of creative thinking, collaboration, communication, global awareness, and self-direction.