Post-Secondary

Post-secondary is a shifting space — four year degrees may not always be the fit and new alternatives are being created at an alarming rate. This topic encompasses everything from higher ed to adult learning and workforce pipelines and development.
Personalized Learning

How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Learning in Higher Ed

Guest Author

Augmented reality will likely have more uses in higher education for extending learning outside of the classroom than within it. You can add additional interactive elements to the texts the students are assigned, adding hyperlinks, audio, or images to their print textbooks.
Personalized Learning

Let’s Persevere With College and Career Ready

Guest Author

By: JoEllen Lynch. I get frustrated sometimes that we refuse to commit resources to the adolescents we have and continue to fail in our systems. We need the people, tools and models to get all students work and college ready.
EdTech

EdTech 10: Spring Fever

Getting Smart Staff

Spring has sprung and is overflowing with exciting launches and announcements of new products and tools. Here are this week’s 10 most exciting “sprouts” we picked out of the EdTech “garden.”
Personalized Learning

Making Math 3D

Megan

As you might have guessed, the math teacher in me can’t help but immediately think about how I would use this idea in the classroom, and the truth is there are a number of ways that a 3D printer can advance students conceptual understanding of fundamental and complex mathematics.
Leadership

Do You Know Me? The Voice of a Disgruntled Student in a Boring Class

John Hardison

“Ignited by the opportunity for creative expression and fueled by talent-based, intrinsic motivation, students will relentlessly pursue higher truths and knowledge to create lives replete with challenges, service, integrity, happiness, fulfillment, and success.” We can call this standard TSBR-US1 (“This Should Be Reality-Universal Standard #1). It may not be too common in many classes, but I promise it will go right to the core of all students’ learning spirits.
Personalized Learning

The 4 Characteristics of Great 21st Century Resumes

Dave Guymon

Whether you are in the process of revising your resume or curriculum vitae to apply for new positions this spring or are simply wanting to stay up-to-date, the following are four characteristics of great resumes that will further brand you as a 21st century educator.