Common 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…
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 3, 2013In a recent op ed piece, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times discusses a new tool that will be launched this fall. This web site will allow high schools to login and see how they compare to similar institutions in other parts of the world. The product of a joint venture between two organizations, America Achieves and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (O.E.C.D), the project will release…
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April 2, 2013Concordia University professor Bernard Bull recently blogged about multiple perspectives driving educational change, noting that “educational experimentation is becoming mainstream.” Bull believes the cited perspectives will give those interested in education reform several critical lens for understanding and evaluating educational innovations. These include the historical perspective, the global perspective, the ethnographic perspective, the autobiographical perspective, the scientific perspective, and the philosophical perspective. If educators analyze an innovation from these angles, perhaps they…
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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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April 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 the next Hangout on Air with Cisco’s GETideas.org, Executive Director Mary Anne Petrillo will lead a panel of thought leaders in discussion as they share their ideas for modernizing professional development efforts. Please join us on April 3rd to…
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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…
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March 25, 2013Digital Learning Now! is a group run by a council industry expert, policymakers, and educators dedicated to improving digital opportunities for American students. In March 2012, Digital Learning Now! released its second annual report which grades individual states on their progress towards implementing technological innovations. Criteria for these report cards are based on 10 elements of high quality digital learning, and only 6 states received an A or B for…
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March 16, 2013Last week the Mozilla Foundation announced its first iteration of badges known as Open Badges 1.0. These web-based badges are stored in a virtual backpack and can be used in various platforms to prove mastery of certain skills. The MacArthur Foundation is supporting this project, and over 600 groups will be implementing systems to recognize the accomplishments of individuals.
