Billed as the largest gathering of education ministers in the world, the Education World Forum is an annual event for global education leaders. The 2013 Forum took place in January in London, and participants were interviewed regarding their thoughts on education. Check out their thoughtful responses in this beautifully produced series of interviews. More videos from the Forum are also available on YouTube.
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 11, 2013The Wallace Foundation has produced a series of short, practical videos highlighting stories of effective school leaders. These stories relate to established principles of school leadership: Shaping a vision of academic success for all students Creating a climate hospitable to education Cultivating leadership in others Improving instruction Managing people, data, and processes to foster school improvement In this video series, successful principals share tips and strategies related to these principles….
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April 11, 2013DMLcentral has published another useful blog post; this time from the Mozilla Foundation’s Doug Belshaw. With support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation has been busy developing an open badging system that allows people to get recognition for skills learned in formal and informal learning environments. According to the Open Badges web site, “It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and…
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April 10, 2013Daniel Araya – DML Summer Institute 2012 from DML Research Hub on Vimeo. DMLcentral has posted an article featuring Research Fellow at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Daniel Araya that illuminates some of the complexities in understanding educational reform efforts. Araya points out that we need to redefine education in the US as we move out of industrialization age, “If you look at…
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April 5, 2013Michael Robbins, a senior adviser for nonprofit partnership at the US Department of Education, reflects on his recent speaking opportunity at SxSW in this blog post. He notes, “Many conversations were intensely focused on technology to support school-based initiatives, but missing attention on how digital learning should connect students to their passions, peers, communities, and careers. We will miss essential opportunities to transform schools if transitions primarily create digital versions of…
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April 5, 2013Check out TICAL’s School Leadership Summit event recordings! On March 28, 2013, more than 50 educators presented their thoughts on various leadership topics related to themes such as Vision, Teaching and Learning, Professional Learning, Data-driven Reform and Ethics and Responsible Use. Keynotes included Michael Fullan, Yong Zhao, and Bill Brennan. All recordings are free and will remain available on this web site.
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April 5, 2013The New York TImes has published an article pointing to misplaced priorities by the Obama administration on education spending as evidenced by the research of Nobel prize winning economist James Heckman and others. While noting that the President has called for universal preschool education in his State of the Union Address, reporter Eduardo Porter writes about how the US has allocated significant funds for higher ed initiatives that will potentially…
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April 4, 2013A group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania recently traveled to Finland to learn more about the much revered education system there. This team has reflected upon this experience through a group blog and this allows us to benefit from their collective thoughts and experiences. Check it out and give them additional feedback by offering a comment or two.
