Here’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.
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, 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 25, 2013Hanna Rosin of the Atlantic has published a fascinating piece detailing parental concerns and research around young children using technology. Entitled The Touch-Screen Generation, this article summarizes expert findings around the affects of television on children. Rosin also notes that this existing research may inform current practices around early childhood use of technology as there is little existing research on kids’ use of technologies such as iPads. Intertwined in this…
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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.
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March 11, 2013A new paper entitled Launching Successful Readers: the Role of ICT in Early-Grade Literacy Success has been published by the Joan Ganz Cooney Foundation. The intended audience is policy makers and educational technology developers. This intentionally brief report calls for interested parties to consider applying literacy research to addressing barriers to literacy growth and to the design of comprehensive literacy programs with the goal of avoiding the creation of more…
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March 10, 2013The value proposition for educational technology seems to periodically challenged in the media, and there’s a bit of that in this NPR piece. Referring to a recent Pew study on teachers’ use of technology and several fairly superficial examples of student learning, NPR laments the fact that there hasn’t been much of a correlation between test scores and use of technology in schools, “So far, there hasn’t been a way…
