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3,500 Educators Committed to Innovation for Equity
Our team spent a week with 3,500 educators and leaders in San Antonio, Texas, at iNACOL 2016 learning from and inspiring one another. Here is a Storify that we feel captures the spirit of #iNACOL16.
EdTech 10: Super Schools
The world is a-buzz with the news of the 10 XQ Super Schools, where our own Mary Ryerse was invited to be a judge. This week’s top ten news stories offer even more super news about teaching and learning.
Technology’s Unmet Progressive Promise
By: Michael DeArmond. Personalized learning schools interested in supporting personalization through progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning.
Focus on Fighting Poverty, Not the Students Living in It
In his book Poor Students, Rich Teaching, Eric Jensen shares how focusing on combating the effects of poverty, not on “what poor students cannot do,” to be a key catalyst for change.
What is Conceptual Understanding?
By: Tatum Omari and Vivian Chen. How can we shift our teaching methods to prepare future generations for careers and life in a technologically-advanced world? The key is to begin teaching for conceptual understanding.
It’s a Project-Based World. Let’s Prepare Students for It.
By: Bonnie Lathram, Bob Lenz and Tom Vander Ark. In this paper we discuss the need to provide today's students access to high-quality project-based learning for future success.
Equitable Education for Students in Poverty Starts with the Teacher
In "Poor Students, Rich Teaching," author Eric Jensen discusses how teachers who choose to better understand poverty and work to change mindsets can be one of the biggest factors in making a difference for these students.
Mathematical Modeling For High School Students
By: Sasan Erfan and Yunkai Zhang. Mathematical modeling is an integral yet underrepresented part of our society. So student-founded AoCMM is on a mission to inform, excite and educate high school students everywhere about this necessary field of study.
How Stanford Took a Cue from Our School in Africa…and Everybody Won
By: Ryan Findley. Understanding the need to contextualize design thinking for the African context, the African Leadership Academy pioneered the self and cultural awareness design thinking process in African schools.
How Hip-Hop Redefines Project-Based Learning
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi. The skills and attitudes needed for success in the 21st century thrive in hip-hop, so let's use it to not only engage learners but as a means to improve PBL's own form and function.