To me, some of the most fascinating questions within the larger context of modern learning center on what the future holds in terms of work. (It’s one of the reasons I’m so pleased that Harold Jarche will be a regular contributor to EML moving forward.) While that future is certainly unpredictable, it’s hard to argue […]
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EU versus Google. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long
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Earlier this year, an article “written by an actual teen” made the rounds on social media. The article promised “A Teenager’s View of Social Media,” and the author’s pronouncements were taken as gospel: “Facebook is dead to us.” “Instagram is by far the most used social media outlet for my age group.” “To be honest,
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It’s a well-known fact that there are far fewer women in science and technology careers than men. Just 12 percent of those earning computer science degrees are women. And tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Apple have admitted that only one-fifth of their technical employees are female. Conventional wisdom was once that women are
Let’s start with this: You really want your students (or your own kids) to have the same education that you did when you went to school? The same subjects? Same type of assessments? Same bell schedule? Same homework assignments? Same teacher organized lesson plans? Same rules and regulations? Same lunches? Same… You get the idea. Now
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Do the stories that we tell about education technology demand we ask more questions? Do they prompt us to rethink what teaching and learning looks like? Or does education technology simply re-inscribe older stories, older practices? And do the stories that we tell about education technology, particularly when those stories are tinged with judgment, shame,
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Pearson, PARCC, and Social Media Monitoring. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or
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What changes in a world where anyone can publish to global audiences with just a few taps on a smartphone screen? Short answer: A lot. Just ask people in places like Ferguson, MO where cell phones have done more to document the unrest of the last few months than traditional news cameras. Or teens who have
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The Apple Watch. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long
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We read a lot here at EML. A lot. We’re contstantly scanning a variety of blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, e-mail newsletters and more in an attempt to track the latest and most relevant thinking about the modern world and the modern learner. While our emphasis is on the learning, we’re also highly interested in
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North America is in the middle of a particularly rough winter. February was Toronto’s coldest month on record, with temperatures never getting above freezing. Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, and Ithaca, New York also had record-setting cold weather in February. Providence, Rhode Island had 31.8 inches of snow, breaking the old record for the month. Boston had
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Ben Grey is the Assistant Superintendent for Innovative Learning and Communications for Community Consolidated School District 59 in Arlington Heights, IL, and he’s making change happen in some compelling ways at his school. Over the past year-and-a-half, Ben has led a conversation around change that started with a most interesting question: “How can technology be used
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Guest post by Harold Jarche We are in the midst of a ‘nano-bio-info-techno-cogno’ revolution. We are entering the network era, and change is coming fast. That may sound like a cliché, but not when you consider the last major shifts we went through and the time our institutions had to adapt. When markets came about,
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“The interest roused by historical simulation games is readily explained,” writes Jeremiah McCall in a 2012 article in The History Teacher. “These games offer immersive, interactive, multimedia representations of the past that are radically different from other forms of media. They engage players through multiple modes of communication: visual, textual, aural, and tactile. Through these
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“Having no destination, I am never lost”. Ikkyu a 15th Century Zen monk Reading Audrey Watters column in last week’s EML brought back memories of the intensity of those first days, 25 years ago, when the hundred or so 10 and 11 year old girls at MLC school in Kew were the first in world
