Learner-Centered
Personalized Learning
Learning for a Reason: 4 Levels of Engagement
ASU Professor of Education responds to Tom Vander Ark's recent blog on engagement by sharing four types of learner engagement: Procedural, Conceptual, Consequential and Critical Engagement.
Uncategorized
Why Do Human Beings Engage? 26 Impulses That Sustain Engagement
Each stimuli is unique for each person and each person responds based on a unique motivational profile. Nevertheless it’s worth attempting to identify the root motivations for engagement to become more intentional about creating sticky experiences. Here are 26 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy
Personalized Learning
Exposing Every Student To STEM
Our challenge, our opportunity is to help every student discover how STEM skills can be the foundation for success throughout their life no matter the pathway.
EdTech
Implementation Challenges on the Path to Personalization
There are several technical challenges to delivering on the promise of personalized learning including defining a standard student record, boosting interoperability, and combining multiple formative sources. However, there are additionally daunting implementation barriers related to school models, leadership and parents.
Leadership
Designing Transformative Professional Learning Experiences
In professional development, let's ask: What can we create together? What do we value and believe to be true? What kind of effort are we willing to expend based on our values and beliefs? By acting on what matters, we can design transformative professional learning.
EdTech
Customization is Key to Turning Around Bottom 5% Schools
By: Sajan George. Policy makers at all levels, from school districts to the White House, should look at technology-infused, student-centered models for teaching and learning – as a way of turning around the most challenged schools in America – and for the lessons it can provide for improving education overall.
EdTech
Making Sure People Don’t Get Lost in the EdTech Shuffle
By: Albert Kim. It’s easy to lose sight of the people as you wade through hundreds of new products, tools, and practices at ISTE. So how do schools and nonprofits make sure that people don’t get lost in the EdTech shuffle?
Personalized Learning
10 Conversations at PBL World Focus on Students, Learning
From student-centered learning to parenting for powerful learning to all the new tech tools you could use, PBL World has it all. Here we bring you the top 10 conversations we had yesterday in case you missed it.
Difference Making
Rethinking Assessment to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century Workforce
With innovative teaching models and new assessment capabilities brought about by technology, students and teachers will have greater access to information about levels of understanding, remediation can decrease, and personalized learning at scale will become reality.
EdTech
Nobody is Average, Every Student Deserves Personalized Learning
Todd Rose points out that no student is "average." School designs based on average destroy talent because advanced students aren't challenged and students with specific weaknesses don't have their strengths nurtured.