Technology-driven innovation is alive and well in the US and beyond, according to EdSurge‘s Tony Wan who recently penned a column for Fast Company magazine. In this piece, Wan gives us an idea of who is playing in the ed tech incubator space and speculates on implications for further growth. Tech incubators have traditionally been hubs where start ups can work, collaborate and learn from each other and experienced professionals…
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, 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, 2013Here’s an audio recording of a recent piece broadcasted on KQED in San Francisco. Guests include Amanda Lenhart of Pew Research Center, Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media, and Madeline Levine, a psychologist based in Marin County, CA. During this conversation, the participants discuss current research, trends, and implications for parenting in the 21st century.
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April 9, 2013The New York Times reports on a new tool that may help publishers and educators gain insight into the reading habits of college students. Silicon Valley-based CourseSmart tracks data points such as skipped pages, neglecting not to highlight key passages in the text, lack of note taking and how many times a digital textbook has been opened. Using this data, CourseSmart creates “an engagement index” for individual students. The theory…
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GETIdeas Education Hangout on Air – Cultivation of Leadership: Contemporary Professional DevelopmentApril 3, 2013Effective leaders recognize the importance of professional development in transforming education systems. Leadership teams need to design engaging and relevant experiences for their colleagues in order to build capacity for educational improvement. In this Hangout on Air with Cisco’s GETideas.org, Executive Director Mary Anne Petrillo led a panel of thought leaders in discussion on how to modernizing professional development efforts. Panelists included: Alice Barr is the Instructional Technology Integrator for…
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April 3, 2013Common Sense Media issued today a new tool for helping school districts that are implement mobile learning programs where students have their own devices. When planning for 1:1 implementations, school leaders need to address how digital citizenship will be cultivated in their school communities. This resource leads us through three phases for implementation: Envision, Communicate, and Implement and provides with many valuable planning documents including checklists, educational posters, family media…
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April 2, 2013Here’s a new video capturing the thoughts of noted edublogger and school leadership expert, Dr. Scott McLeod. Produced by Iowa Area Education Agency 267, this is a compilation of Scott’s thoughts on teaching and learning in new ways. Scott has been instrumental in pushing for educational state internationally and also in his home state of Iowa. Make sure to check out his blog Dangerously Irrelevant.
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March 25, 2013GETideas.org hosted another Google Hangout on Air focused on one of our four Learning Trends: Technology-Driven Innovation on March 20, 2013 GETideas.org’s Executive Director, Mary Anne Petrillo and distinguished thought leaders pondered current trends in educational technology and computer science education. Show notes can be found here: http://goo.gl/Ld2Kh Our panelists included: Anna Hu is the Director of Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) at both Presbyterian Ladies’ College and…
