5 Reasons Teaching With Video Games Makes More Sense Now Than Ever by Paul Darvasi, ludiclearning.org Today there are more and more instances of schools creating curricular spaces for commercial video games. Initially, a few rogue teachers slipped them in through the back door, but over the past decade more schools and districts have rolled out…
For a quick read and a little humor, here is some bullet-point sarcasm about the “new commercial education” from Wendell Berry (via The Joy Of Sales Resistance, from his short collections of essays Sex, Economy, Freedom, And Community.) He’s talking more about universities than K-12, but, well, it’s all the same isn’t it? “Actually, as we know, the new…
The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there sky is falling panic, or the more things change the more they stay the same indifference. There really isn’t any…
What do we, as educators, do now that in 25 years we’ll look back on and shake our heads in embarrassment?
Oculus Rift is one of the pioneering virtual reality headsets originally crowd-funded and eventually purchased by Facebook.
Why Innovative Learning Tools Need Innovative Teachers To Support Them by Paul Moss, paulgmoss.wordpress.com Whenever you see an ambulance go by and cars get out of the way, you know that humankind still has a chance. People immediately bow to the pressures of the modern day, moving aside to let a life be saved. In times of…
With the growth of app development & personalized learning, the next five plus years will see the rise of the teacherpreneur.
What The Data Says About Students’ 21st Century Readiness 21st century skills is a term that’s been bandied about for over a decade now. Loosely, it refers to the creative and technology-based skills students are increasingly required to demonstrate to use information in the real world. While there’s plenty of tools, leadership, strategies, and even…
As we’ve theorized before, we could consider the definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.” One very natural and accessible way to see that kind of thinking in action is twitter. In contrast to relatively closed social media platforms like…
How do we display data so that it is accessible? If teachers are given this data, what do they with it to improve outcomes for students?
We need to prepare students for a world where borders are blurred and learning about other cultures is as ubiquitous as learning to read.
A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom Disruptive thinking is a useful thing. It encourages difficult questions, conversations, and rethinking of trends and directions. It isn’t always a comfortable thing, usually occurring when other strategies for change have failed. Computer hackers–the principled, noble hackers with specific goals and a moral code anyway–take the same approach, in the…
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