The edutech field is awash with new technologies that make the current approach to teaching easier, digital, and shareable. We have platforms that connect learners and educators, digital tutorials that can be used at any time, and tablet computers that allow us to access them from wherever we please. The advances in how we interact with learning are many; however, technology has the potential to play a role greater than…
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by: Sylvia Martinez
January 8, 2013Great leadership is inclusive leadership, yet the largest stakeholder group in schools is often forgotten: students. Students are 92% of the population at most every school site. To be a leader, you have to lead 100% of the population, not just the 8% who look like you. Wonder where the future leaders of education will come from? They sit in front of us everyday. Thinking that “school” doesn’t understand who…
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by: Larry BakerJanuary 8, 2013We have waded deep into the waters of change at Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan (U.S.). We discontinued a 1:1 PC laptop program, which yielded mixed results and little passion, and began a new program called Mercy 2.0, which brought major disruptions in the form of iPads, Google Apps, Apple TVs, new computer labs, and more. Despite initial challenges, the leadership has embraced Mercy 2.0 with enthusiasm and…
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by: John Connell
December 21, 2012This is question that garners agreement and begins debates. We cross a turbulent landscape where competing definitions of leadership abound, where the very nature of leadership is the stuff of argument, where conflicting philosophies of education each generate their own understanding of what makes for an effective leader and how a good leader should behave, and where notions of how we must go about educating and training the next generation…
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November 26, 2012The socioeconomic transformation that Latin America underwent in the past decade has been deep and remarkable. The expanding middle class and increased purchasing power in countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia is generating a growing demand for more and better education. The region is increasingly competing with the rest of the world, and the next stages of development will demand more competitiveness, productivity, and innovation. But the current…
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by: Robert FarazinNovember 20, 2012When most people first experienced the Internet, it was in English. And while it is natural for English speakers, with our somewhat ingrained arrogance when it comes to foreign languages, to assume that this would always be the case, it is simply not true anymore. Children in the U.S. and the rest of the English-speaking world will still experience the Internet primarily in their native tongue, but now this is also…
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by: Dara BarlinNovember 19, 2012A Big Project will launch a free technology-based game called Bring It or Sing It on December 20, 2012, (the day of A Big Project’s Global Arts and Music Renaissance). A Big Project seeks to use mobile apps and Internet-based technologies to connect people around the world to engage in collaborative strategies to make the world a better place while having fun! Here’s how the game works. People get together with…
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November 16, 2012The number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide has doubled in the past five years. This figure is expected to approach 7 billion in 2016, with rapid, continuous growth in developing and emerging countries. With such a big established user base, how can we use mobile phones to enhance early-childhood education in developing and emerging countries? We believe that there’s great potential for educators and entrepreneurs in using mobile phones and…
