The Small School Big Tech podcast series shares expert tips on making the most of dwindling IT budgets. The series team has been using open source applications and cloud computing to bring world-class technology to their small school for the past six years.
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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July 1, 2010
There is a unique school in Washington, D.C., that’s giving a shot at college to students from an inner-city neighborhood that traditionally has extremely low graduation rates. 60 Minutes reports on the SEED school, the first urban, public boarding school in the U.S.
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June 30, 2010
The National Association of Elementary School Principals online radio station hosts experts and newsmakers on topics and issues that affect principals. Current programs include “How to Foster Change When Change Is Hard,” which features author Chip Heath. In the segment, Heath discusses how principals are in an optimal position to change the culture of the schools they lead and to encourage their staff members to treat change as a gradual process that is not without ups and downs.
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June 29, 2010
This special report from the U.S. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and the Southern Regional Education Board addresses U.S. state policy dimensions of college readiness. It identifies the key issues and problems associated with the college-readiness gap, which is a major impediment to increasing the numbers of college students who complete certificates or degrees. This policy brief also provides governors, legislators, and state education leaders with specific steps needed to close the readiness gaps in their states.
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June 29, 2010
The Innovative Educator blog provides recommended steps on harnessing the power of cell phones to enrich teaching and learning–even in environments where cell phones are banned, or where students don’t all have cells:
- Teacher uses cell phones for professional purposes.
- Teacher models appropriate use for learning.
- Teacher strengthens the home/school connection via cell phones.
- Students use cell phones for homework.
- Students use cell phones for classwork.
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June 29, 2010
Teaching with Technology, a U.K. blog presenting practical ideas for Web 2.0 in the primary classroom, discusses the new coalition government’s decision to drop the New Primary Curriculum and to dismantle the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.
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June 28, 2010
Education Innovating features two recent reports from the Dallas Morning News regarding Reasoning Mind, a software program for teaching math that aims to personalize learning while increasing the interest and motivation of students, and changing the role of teacher from presenting information to guiding and tutoring. The program individualizes pace and uses artificial intelligence to respond to student performance in real time. Problems come with step-by-step tutorials, and interactive exercises.
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June 24, 2010
Get Schooled features the Harlem Success Academy–a public charter school in New York (U.S.)–including new research and related links.
