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GETinsight is our practical blogger community, where Expert Practitioners speak their minds, sharing share effective real-world strategies for employing digital and social media to transform schools--innovative practical steps that work on the ground to improve 21st-century education outcomes.

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Cultivating Leadership The knowl­edge nec­es­sary to func­tion suc­cess­fully and fol­low a career was seen to already exist: It could be handed down from experts and lead­ers to learn­ers and work­ers. In the Indus­trial Age, cur­ricu­lum devel­op­ment was a mat­ter of select­ing the most impor­tant knowl­edge to trans­mit... more

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Designing Modern Learning Environments In 2010, I published a prose-poem called “I Am Learner,” which was an attempt to distill the fundamentals of my philosophy of education into as few words as I could manage. At its core, “I Am Learner” tells us that the learner, even in the... more

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The Future of Digital Content In a piece in the Independent in 2011, Gor­don Brown wrote: “The inter­na­tional aid sys­tem for edu­ca­tion is fail­ing the world’s children.” He was intro­duc­ing his UNESCO report, Edu­ca­tion for All: Beat­ing Poverty, Unlock­ing Pros­per­ity. On a number of occasions over the past six years, I have been able to watch... more

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Designing Modern Learning Environments I often hear faculty debate the challenges of teaching with emerging technologies at the community college level.  Community college classes are the epitome of diversity — in any given class you are likely to find a mixture of students who are learning English as a... more

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    Konrad Glogowski
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