future of learning
Personalized Learning
Innovation Series: We’re All Biased
If we’re honest, we can admit our bias to the status quo. We love our modern conveniences and can’t live without the innovations that we have, but we don’t believe we need anything any more innovation.
Personalized Learning
5 Gifts to Give Learners… When We Get Out of the Way
Recently I wrote about what happened when I let my learners actually move to the center of the learning conversation. Through continued reflection on past, present, and future learning experiences I am responsible for creating, I put together this list of the gifts I’m learning to give when I get out of the way.
EdTech
DIY, Incubate or Accelerate?
Incubators, accelerators, and co-working spaces are popping up around the country--how are the different? Is one of them right for your startup?
Personalized Learning
Next Generation Blends will Teach to One
Over the last three years, the New Classrooms team has developed an instructional model that seeks to addresses the inherent limitations in one of the more common forms of blended learning-rotational models- where students transition among two or three learning stations within a class period.
Ed Policy
Barber on the Future of Education
The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) commissioned the Brightlines team led by Sir Michael Barber (@michaelbarber9) to consider the future of education in Massachusetts. The New Opportunity to Lead is a comprehensive 120 page report that sets out an agenda for the next 20 years, beyond the Common Core and standards based reform.
Personalized Learning
Content Curation Through the SAMR Lens
There are a variety of helpful tools to choose from to make content curation fun and efficient. If you're just starting out, it’s important to choose a flexible tool that will grow with you as you strive to use technology to "Teach Above the Line" and transform learning.
EdTech
LinkedIn In Class For Career Advancement
By James Walker. LinkedIn is home to untapped avenues. Introducing LinkedIn in class can make students more approachable, and cultivate an atmosphere that engages them side by side along with professional development.
EdTech
Boosting Impact: Why Foundations Should Invest in Venture Funds
A Getting Smart white paper on why foundations should invest in for-profit companies and education venture funds to increase impact and to accelerate and scale innovative products and services.
Personalized Learning
Let’s Read Together: 10+ DigiTools for Growing Readers
Until now, I’ve only had those students who can bring their own devices to school to test some of these tools for use in the classroom. Next year, I look forward to having everyone on the same digital page.
Personalized Learning
#NCCE2014 Has Teachers Putting the Pedal to the Metal
As each returns to his or her district, school, and classroom, the key principle for them to remember is to take what was learned in Seattle and start doing something differently. Their engines are definitely running. Now, it’s simply a matter of putting the pedal to the metal.