This Education Week annual report discusses education, technology, and e-learning–the shift toward district-level approaches, and the focus on accountability. It includes the following features: Statistical Snapshots: Technology and K-12 Learning E-Schools Put Specific Measures for Success in Place School Districts Team Up on Virtual Ed. Initiatives States Face Virtual School Financing Challenges Virtual Education Companies Face Increasing Scrutiny E-Learning Providers Adjust to Market, Policy Forces Students Critique Blended Learning Experiences
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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March 14, 2012In this eSchool News piece, experts outline key considerations for school leaders seeking to create online- or blended-learning programs. One such key is to “know where you’re going.” That is, creators of online- or blended-learning programs should know their educational goals, program, structure, and course content before they begin. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 13, 2012TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. The new site (April 2012 launch) will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as powerful new learning tools. Available now is TED-Ed’s YouTube channel. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 12, 2012This Edutopia post is an excerpt form Terry Heick’s recent e-book, 10 Ideas in Pursuit of a Global Curriculum. The post details three ideas for 21st-century curriculum–adapting to learners, rethinking learning spaces, and leveraging the role of play–and includes strategies for the use of project-based learning and social media.
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March 8, 2012Getting Smart explores game-based learning (GBL), highlighting its ability to teach and engage with flexibility and creativity at a relatively low coast. Author Mike Shumake provides one possible six-step approach to GBL design, along with a helpful example that connects to curriculum. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 6, 2012Writing in her Hack Education blog, “recovering academic” and ed-tech advocate Audrey Watters discusses the Open Badges Project and takes a realistic look at the general use of badges for recognition and recommendation. She also notes the potential of open badges as “personal data lockers.” If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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March 2, 2012The Chronicle of Higher Education, with support from the Gates Foundation, has introduced this website to share data on completion rates in U.S. higher education in a visually stimulating way. The centerpiece is a powerful tool that allows users to sift through graduation data in a variety of ways–by race, by gender, or over time. Because official graduation rates exclude many students, the site include other success measures: completions per 100…
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March 1, 2012Barry M. Franklin’s new work uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, he applies the concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. This comprehensive work concludes with a consideration of how we can employ the…
