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Five Tips for Testing the Place-Based Education Waters
By: Jennifer Pieratt. The open-endedness of planning Place-Based Education can quickly go from exhilarating to overwhelming, so here are five tips to help teachers just dip their toe in the deeper learning pool.
Redefining Career Readiness for an Uncertain Future
By: Katherine Prince. The world of work is changing rapidly, and those changes will have big implications for how we approach learning and what our education system aims to achieve.
Rethinking High School Graduation Requirements: Project & Microcredentials
The majority of graduation requirements in today's schools have looked similar for over a century. It's time to rethink what today's graduates should know and be able to do, as well as our teaching approach.
8 Learning Platform Observations, 8 Startup Signals
What does the platform revolution mean for learning? After reviewing K-12, HigherEd, corporate and professional learning platforms, here are eight observations and eight trends spotted.
20 Schools and Networks That Educate With A Sense of Place
An illustrative list of 20 U.S. schools implementing Place-Based Education by taking advantage of local geography to create authentic, meaningful and engaging personalized learning for students.
Place-Based Professional Learning in the New Tech Network
By: Julia McBride. Many recognize the power of place-based for students, but what about creating these types of professional learning opportunities for teachers?
MakerEd Micro-Credentialing: Teachers Want to Play, Too!
By: Jennifer Pieratt. Micro-credentialing could be one of the answers to empowering and providing more personalized learning for our teachers. Here are more details on teachers earning the "first of its kind" makered badge.
How Your Next Freshman Class Will Expect Personalized Learning
By: Robert McGuire. An interview with Tom Vander Ark on how primary and secondary schools are implementing personalized adaptive learning and what higher education institutions can learn from these experiences.
EdTech 10: It’s All Just Learning to Us
While we often focus on K-12, we’re always eager to share important and exciting news about developments in informal learning, early learning and professional learning--because it’s all just learning to us.
Bringing Mindfulness to the K-5 Classroom
By: Lynea Gillen. There is a definite need to teach children at an early age what mindfulness is and how it can give us the tools we need for dealing successfully with all manner of challenges and difficulties.