A new generation of students is surrounded by digital technologies, leading scholars and teachers to consider virtual worlds to engage students. By bringing together human-computer-interaction theories with social theory, Socializing the Classroom by Susan B. Barnes creates a theoretical foundation for future research in the area of social media, online learning technologies, and the development of social networks. Readers will gain a better understanding of how students use online learning environments to…
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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July 17, 2012This Statistics in Brief from the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics describes the characteristics and undergraduate experiences of 2007–08 undergraduates who immigrated to the U.S. or who had at least one immigrant parent (second-generation Americans). The analysis compares these two groups with all undergraduates (excluding foreign students) and with third- or higher-generation American undergraduates whose parents were born in the U.S. The findings are based on data from the…
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July 12, 2012In an ongoing study, RAND researchers are evaluating the effectiveness of Carnegie Learning’s Cognitive Tutor Algebra I (CTAI) curriculum, a technology-based curriculum that combines classroom instruction with individualized instruction by a computer-based tutor. While the effectiveness of the curriculum in raising student achievement is the main focus of the study, the affordability of the curriculum is another factor that districts may wish to consider in deciding whether to adopt it;…
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July 12, 2012How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book edited by Bronwyn Williams and Amy Zenger, scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the U.S. illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influenced by popular culture create both opportunities and tensions for secondary and university students. The authors examine issues of theory, identity, and…
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Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Issues, Reflections, and Ways ForwardJuly 6, 2012How can curriculum integration of school science with the related disciplines of technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) enhance students’ skills and their ability to link what they learn in school with the world outside the classroom? Featuring actual case studies of teachers’ attempts to integrate their curriculum, their reasons for doing so, how they did it, and their reflections on the outcomes, Integrating STEM, editing by Leonie Rennie, Grady Venville, and…
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July 5, 2012This report from the U.S. Department of Education’s IES National Center for Education Statistics describes the condition of education for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in the U.S. The study provides educators, policy makers, and the public with information about the academic performance in reading and mathematics of AI/AN 4th- and 8th-graders as well as their exposure to Native American culture. The overall results show that the math score…
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July 3, 2012
Standards-based accountability (SBA) has been a primary driver of education policy in the U.S. for several decades. Although definitions of SBA vary, it typically includes standards that indicate what students are expected to know and be able to do, measures of student attainment of the standards, targets for performance on those measures, and a set of consequences for schools or educations based on performance. Research on SBA indicates that these…
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July 3, 2012The video from Cisco Global Education showcases ongoing research on the benefits video can bring to learning. Click here for a related white paper.
