Educational-technology experts Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann explain how to best integrate technology into K-12 schools, from blogs, wikis, and podcasts to online learning, open-source courseware, and educational gaming to social networking, online mind-mapping, and using mobile phones.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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October 25, 2011Writing in his Free Tech 4 Teachers blog, Richard Byrne shares details regarding three favorite collaborative-studying tools–OpenStudy, StudyBlue, and Nabber–as well as reminds readers of Friends with Brainefits, a service that enables students to study on Facebook with their Facebook friends.
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October 25, 2011This year, eight U.S. colleges that primarily serve at-risk students are working together on Project Kaleidoscope. In California, New York, and Nebraska, faculty members are collaborating on open general education courses that will cut student textbook costs to less than $30 per class. Converge explains why these colleges launched the project.
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October 10, 2011The Chronicle of Higher Education spotlights new online tools that enable professors to build their on textbooks. AcademicPub, for example, arranges payment of royalties and compiles material for publication. Once the textbook is prepared, students can select a low-cost digital edition, a mid-range paperback, or a hard-copy version. The article also discusses Flat World, which finds scholars willing to build peer-reviewed textbooks published under a Creative Commons license, and Connexions,…
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October 10, 2011The Connected Principals blog defines and discusses distributed learning, pointing to blended learning as the hallmark of good future schools, and detailing the technology that will make blended learning possible: the bring-your-own-laptop model, mobile phones, automated and individualized feedback for students …
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October 4, 2011In this video presented by Edutopia, the founder of Khan Academy discusses how his videos can help create a “flipped classroom” that allows lectures to happen at home and project-based learning to happen during school.
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September 30, 2011Since their district could not afford new textbooks aligned with state standards, math and science teachers at a Minnesota (U.S.) high school donated their time to create virtual textbooks using free online resources. The plan not only overcame the budget crunch but also gives students 24/7 access to lessons. This case study from THE Journal features an interview with Byron High School Principal Michael Duffy.
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September 27, 2011Education Week profiles the flipped-classroom approach, with students watching online lessons and lectures at night to free up class time for in-depth lab work, discussions, projects, and other activities. The article looks at the approach underway in Lawrenceville, Georgia (U.S.) high school, as well as a pilot partnership between the online Khan Academy and the Los Altos, California, school district.
