Education Week’s Spotlight on Principals feature looks at the indicators of successful educational leadership. Commonalities among excellent principals include working to help teachers improve individual practice, working with groups of teacher to determine best practices within grade levels and departments, and looking to identify school-wide needs and planning professional learning to develop collective expertise. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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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April 9, 2012This infographic from Online Universities illustrates how teachers are using Pinterest–pinning curated content, organizing ideas, collaborating with others, and working with students online. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 29, 2012This is resource for all K-12 teachers and administrators explains how to make the best use of available technologies. Written by Doug Johnson, an expert in educational technology, the guide is replete with practical tips teachers can easily use to engage their students and make their classrooms places where both students and teachers will enjoy learning. Covers the most up-to-date technologies and how they can best be used in the…
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March 22, 2012This Edudemic post discusses the increasing use of GooglePlus by educators–as a place to share and discuss resources and ideas–providing links to 50 Circles (user-defined lists) grouped by the following topics: Education Educational Technology Higher Education Homeschool and Unschool Special Needs If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 22, 2012Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals–architects, engineers, programmers–teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. Yet teaching is not treated as a design profession. Every…
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March 14, 2012THE Journal details five professional-development strategies for bringing K-12 educators up to speed on technology in the classroom: Develop a multifaceted training model for teachers. Make the technology the incentive. Take teachers out of their comfort zones. Don’t try to force it. Let teachers decide whether or not they want the technology.
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Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders for the 21st Century: Lessons from around the WorldMarch 14, 2012According to this report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) authored by Andreas Schleicher, one in five school principals believe that a lack of qualified math or science teachers is handicapping their students’ learning. The report indicates that pay is part of the challenge to attracting good teachers in these and other subjects. While teachers’ salaries have risen in real terms over the past decade in virtually all OECD…
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March 13, 2012Twitter, which can be used to facilitate synchronous and asynchronous communication, is gaining popularity with educators in both K-12 and higher-education settings. Live Twitter chats, which take place via participants’ use of designated hashtags (#), are an innovative solution to the challenges often associated with online class discussions. This report from Online College presents current examples of Twitter use in higher education at the course level, as well as in…
