When we talk about rethinking education, our focus shouldn’t simply be on how students learn. Frequent EML contributor Lee Skallerup Bessette looks at how professional development is still often stuck with bad pedagogy and very traditional models of “content delivery.” She also points to some of the new forms of PD that educators themselves are […]
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Celebrity iCloud Hack. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help 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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What lessons can we learn from the disastrous iPad initiative in Los Angeles? EML co-founder Bruce Dixon looks at what it’s obvious people still haven’t learned about 1-to-1 initiatives, despite decades of efforts to put computing devices in every student’s hands.
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LAUSD’s iPad Troubles, Continued. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help 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
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As schools’ technology usage grows — whether for administrative or pedagogical purposes — schools’ data collection grows as well. Many schools still struggle with developing “best practices” to protect data security and data privacy. One step to take is to do a better job with transparency, that is, to help everyone, including parents and students,
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Although it’s hardly new, “competency-based education” has become one of the latest buzz phrases. Many education reformers are pushing for it, arguing that it can challenge the “one size fits all” model of traditional schooling. EML editor Audrey Watters offers some background on what CBE is, which schools have implemented it, and what its adoption
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How is literacy changing — that is, how might new technologies demand new skills for reading, writing, and interpreting online texts? What do “critical reading skills” look like alongside these new literacies? How do students read and research online? How do we assess these new literacies?
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The most basic definition of literacy is “the ability to read and write.” How might new digital technologies prompt us to reconfigure our notions of literacy? And if literacy is changing, how must schools change as well? What are “new literacies” — that is, how do new technologies demand new skills for reading, writing, and
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The Future of Education at MIT. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help 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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“But will it scale?” It’s a question asked with a fair amount of frequency of anyone who has a good idea, a successful initiative, an interesting project or product. What does that word “scale” mean? And since the word is commonly associated with business and with technology, is it something that schools should be wary
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Duolingo takes on the TOEFL. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help 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
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In a previous EML article on homelessness, we asked “What does progressive education look like in an age of economic precarity?” To expand on that question: what does it look like in the most fragile of situations? What does education look like among the world’s almost 17 million refugees? How can technology make a difference in their
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Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help 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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The OECD, known best perhaps for its PISA tests, has just issued a report on “Measuring Innovation in Education.” The report ranks countries based on “innovation.” But what is “innovation”? How do you measure it? And where does a fixation on “innovation” take us? Is it necessarily progressive? EML editor Audrey Watters dives into the OECD report and asks
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Once it was rock-n-roll that was condemned for corrupting the youth. These days, it’s often video games that are blamed. Despite a lack of research to tie gaming to negative behaviors, video games still suffer from a fair amount of negative media attention. And perhaps that’s part of the reason why schools remain resistant to
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