David Andrade, the Educational Technology Guy, discusses the skills students need beyond content to succeed in future education and careers: Sense-making Social intelligence Novel and adaptive thinking Cross-cultural competency New-media literacy Transdiciplinarity Cognitive load management Virtual collaboration The post includes a useful Future Work Skills 2020 infographic from the Institute for the Future. 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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December 1, 2011The new edition of this popular book by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel takes a fresh look at what it means to think of literacies as social practices. The book explores what is distinctively new within a range of currently popular everyday ways of generating, communicating, and negotiating meanings. Revised, updated, and significantly reconceptualised throughout, the book includes: Closer analysis of new literacies in terms of active collaboration A timely discussion…
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November 22, 2011International Perspectives on Youth Media, edited by JoEllen Fisherkeller, documents and analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehensive theoretical analyses, notes, and bibliographies, each chapter includes a case study, illuminating the variety and diversity of youth media projects around the world. Contributors span multiple disciplines and regions, and their perspectives provide a rich and comparative resource for readers. The information…
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November 14, 2011Digital Citizenship in Schools by Mike Ribble is an essential introduction to digital citizenship. Starting with a basic definition of the concept and an explanation of its relevance and importance, the book goes on to explore the nine elements of digital citizenship, providing a useful audit and professional development activities to help educators determine how to go about integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. Activity ideas and lesson plans round out…
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November 11, 2011eSchool News looks at how some of the many ways educators are teaching about online safety and responsibility. Tactics include using third-party resources and having students act as investigators. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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November 11, 2011Edutopia profiles the Crenshaw High School (Los Angeles) Digital Media Team, which taught digital photography and podcasting to adults 50+ at Cal State Dominguez Hills’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The team of eight tenth and eleventh grade students had completed a certification class for iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. Instructor and post author Daphne Bradford aptly cites the project as an example of how “innovative teaching and student engagement happens when prepared students…
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October 31, 2011Educational-technology experts Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann explain how to best integrate technology into K-12 schools, from blogs, wikis, and podcasts to online learning, open-source courseware, and educational gaming to social networking, online mind-mapping, and using mobile phones.
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October 20, 2011Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st-century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. In Literacy Is Not Enough, authors Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes, and Andrew Churches explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy into the traditional curriculum: Solution fluency Information fluency Creativity fluency Collaboration fluency
