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CEO’s at Recess: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Elementary School
How can we sustain and build on these innate drives once young children enter school? According to Alesha Bishop, one answer is teaching entrepreneurship education.
Forget Replication, Transforming Learning is About Remixing
Education “reform” has earned a reputation as something that is faddish, top-down, and short term. What would happen if we fell out of love with buzzwords and invested in connecting educators to learn, imagine, and create together? With the Transforming Learning Collaborative, we’re going to find out.
Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning
Inspired by the growing popularity of AI in pop culture and media, as well as more adaptive learning programs being released, Michelle Zimmerman realized change was coming for both what and how young people should learn and set out to write "Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning".
Top Education Trend of 2018: Active Learning Spaces
A look at active learning spaces from around the globe and why they help power high-quality learning experiences, plus a look at what Tom thinks is coming in 2019.
What Moment Are You In?
Tom explores what the question "what moment are you in?" means for education leaders and how the answer to that question shapes education policy.
2030 and Beyond…Will We Really Be Able to Still Compete?
The term cultural competence has been used for decades to try and get business and education to think differently about the changing world. Yet, the term cultural competence is often limited to understanding another person’s culture but not changing anything about our own practices as a result of this understanding. In response to this concern, several researchers began to use the term global competence instead.
15 School Districts Worth Visiting
Leading a public school district is difficult and complicated work. But done well, there is no other job that can change how a community thinks about itself, its children and its future. Here, we look at 15 districts that are changing the trajectory of both education and their communities.
Developing the Whole Child One Collaboration at a Time
By: Lindsay Portnoy. Often the most difficult part of learning is understanding something well enough to teach it to others, however, by modeling continued growth through collaboration and communication, educators Rebecca Henderson and Mark Davis have created a culture of persistence and problem-solving in their classrooms.
Education When Careers Are More Like Rock Climbing Than Ladders
While at a recent conference, Tom attended a session where co-author of "The Second Machine Age," Andrew McAfee, discussed how "careers are looking more like rock climbing than ladder climbing in an economy."
The Coming Social Economy
In this post, Tom Vander Ark explores the coming social economy and explains how it will be built on the traits that make us uniquely human—care, consideration, creativity, and critical thinking.