Career & Technical Ed
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EdTech
10 Elements of Next-Gen Learner Experience (LX)
User experience (UX) involves a person's behaviors, attitudes, and emotions about using a particular product, system or service. With improving potential to blend and personalize learning, we should be reconsidering the Learner Experience (LX). Here's 10 suggested elements. What would you add?
Leadership
Combine Curiosity, Kinesiology, & Causes in ‘14
Moving toward work you love means getting in touch with what, how, and why--what you are drawn to, how you like to spend your time, and the causes that move you to action.
Personalized Learning
Embrace Change in the New Year with Genius Hour
In order to develop something truly remarkable, we must first engage in constructive play driven by passion. Helping students combine their interests with research, planning and goal setting is a noble role for an educator.
EdTech
A Slight #Engchat Re-Purposing of Widbook (Part 1)
After a solid understanding has been established, I strive to follow up with a limitless, free-thinking session that centers on one essential question: “How can this technological tool be repurposed as an educational instrument?”
Leadership
Smart Cities: Los Angeles Startup Weekend EDU 1/24
Last year, my Smart Cities: LA post complained about the lack of “innovation and collaboration” in the city, but things are more interesting a year later. The first Startup Weekend EDU in the City of Angels will take place on the weekend of January 24th at UCLA Anderson.
Personalized Learning
Christmas Carol: Blended Learning Opportunities
This year, Susan Lucille Davis shook things up a bit and explored Dickens’s story by blending a number of venues, both online and face-to-face, that we use to learn today: performance, reading and discussion, interactive games, research, and experience.
EdTech
Big Data: The Quest to Assuage Assange Fears
This year, Big Data has given us the farthest reaching look into the future yet, and it’s a very exciting and promising future. Big Data is going to help us personalize education and usher in adaptive learning. The transformative change we are looking for depends on this data and the machines that use it.
Personalized Learning
Deeper Learning For Every Student Every Day, Released!
Published today, Deeper Learning for Every Student Every Day is dedicated to dispelling the myths around Deeper Learning and proving that it can happen in any school, with all students, and every teacher.
EdTech
No Confusion with InfuseLearning
In fact, there is no confusion with InfuseLearning. It simply works.
EdTech
3 Reasons Why Tech Must Be a Part Of a Personal Finance Class
There are numerous resources dedicated to teaching students how to be safe and responsible online. My favorite resource is OnGuardOnline.