This 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.
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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February 24, 2012Andrew Miller is a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education, an organization specializing in project-based learning, as well as for ASCD, an organization providing expertise in a variety of professional development needs. He is also a regular blogger for Edutopia, for which he’s contributed this post on best practices for the flipped classroom: creating need-to-know content, engaging students, choosing technology, building in reflective activities, and timing instruction. …
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February 13, 2012Writing for Edutopia, veteran teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron discusses her success with project-based learning (PBL) for writing instruction–PBL units that gave students the choice of writing topics, involved students in creating the rubrics upon which they scored their peers and themselves, and required students to blend genres rather than segregate them into different assessments. Wolpert-Gawron closes with 10 compelling reasons that support the use of PBL for writing, including that PBL requires…
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February 9, 2012In this Edutopia post from Bob Lenz, high school English teacher Melissa Meyers describes both the promise and the challenge of integrating educational technology into the classroom. Responding to a previous post from Lenz, Meyers says that blended learning is worth it: “Technology is certainly worth the hype, but it will remain only empty, extravagant claims if teachers aren’t trained to use it effectively and aren’t as enthusiastic–and evolved–as…
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February 9, 2012In this comprehensive book, author Ferdi Serim offers a practical pathway for developing 21st-century skills while simultaneously strengthening content-area learning. Digital Learning contains a wealth of research-based practices to integrate the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for both students and teachers. Each of the suggested project-based learning examples (in language arts, mathematics, science, and geography) can be used successfully as stand-alone units, but are…
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February 1, 2012eSchool News discusses this year’s 10 Tech-Savvy Superintendents Award recipients. Project-based learning (PBL), bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, blended-learning opportunities, and creative approaches to staff development are among the many successful educational-technology programs being led by the 2012 winners.
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October 18, 2011
Writing for the Edutopia blog, project-based-learning expert Andrew Miller defines gamification versus game-based learning (GBL) and explains how to create a game-based unit by following these steps: Begin with the end in mind. Brainstorm a rigorous scenario. Design quests. Don’t forget the core tenets of GBL from Miller’s previous post.
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October 5, 2011Writing in his 21st-Century EdTech blog, Michael Gorman shares 40 awesome STEM-based resources for project-based learning (PBL). Gorman thoughtfully organizes this list as follows: Websites that provide ideas or blueprints for an entire PBL project, including Teach 21, Math Matters, and High Tech High School Websites that provide components that could be used as a foundation to build a PBL project, including Kid Science Challenge, The Jason Project, and Discover Engineering…
