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- 1 to 1 Is Not The Answer
- What If the Finns Got it Right, Again?
- “Beautiful Learning”
- “College Readiness” versus “Ready for College”
- “En Courage Ment”
- “In the Best Interests of Students”
- “Informating” Our Students for the Future
- “Loving Learning” in Progressive Schools
- “Meaningful Learning” in a Digital Age
- “Reading” the World
- “The Classroom is Not a Place…”
- “The Rise of the Robots”
- “What is Good Gets Done”
- #16: Helping Students Build a Presence Online
- #17: Your Cheatin’ Tech
- #20: Brett Jacobsen – Norms for Learning
- #21: Is College a Risk?
- #22: The Quitter Economy
- #23: Of Hurricanes and Agency
- #24: Culture of Change
- #25: Students Saving the World
- #26: Alternatives to Assessment
- #27: A Pluralistic School
- #28: Rethinking Math Class With Conrad Wolfram
- #29: The Value of Teaching
- #30: The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet
- #31: Cold Shower Keynotes
- #31DaysIBPOC with Dr. Kim Parker
- #32: Words Matter, and an End of the Year Wrap Up
- #33: Mastery Transcripts to Replace Grades?
- #34: Are We Doing the Right Thing in Schools?
- #35: The Answer to How is Yes
- #36: Changing Educational Norms That No Longer Serve Us
- #37: Revolutionizing Education Through Student Empowerment
- #38: The Costs of High Expectations
- #39: Using Adaptive Change Methods to Revolutionize Education
- #40: Interview With Ted Dintersmith
- #41: Conflict with Competency Based Assessments
- #42: The Lost Art of Teaching with Gary Stager
- #43: Be Careful What You Ask For
- #44: “I Love Learning, I Hate School”
- #45: Watching our Kids Too Closely
- #46: Mental and Physical Wellness for Educators
- #47: Dr. Beth Holland discusses Learning, Language, and Leading
- #48: Timeless Learning With Pam Moran and Ira Socol
- #49: Dr. Joe Sanfileppo discusses Relationships, Leadership and Learning
- #50: Measuring (Or Not) the Immeasurable
- #51: From Old School to Change School
- #52: Literacy, Libraries and Making with Heather Lister
- #53: Why Don’t We Wonder in Schools Anymore? with Bud Hunt
- #54 Old Urgencies, New Urgencies for Change
- #55: Author John Warner on Rethinking Writing Instruction and Schools
- #56 – Megan Power on Creating a New Experience of Learning
- #57 – Announcing the Audit
- #58 – Author Rich Halverson on Rethinking Education
- #59 – Stephanie Rogen on Creating Schools That Thrive
- #60 – Diversity is Not the Goal
- #61 – Creating a Different School Experience
- #62 – A Truly Global School
- #63 – Gary Stager: “The Project Can Replace the Instruction”
- #64 – In Search of Deeper Learning
- #65 – A New Story of School Based on Beliefs
- #66 – Futurist Bryan Alexander: Stories of Change
- #67 – Creating a New Story of Learning With Mary Anne Moran and John Clements
- #68 – Talking About Race, Culture, and Identity with Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
- #69 – The Power of Community with Peter Block
- #70 – Virtual Community with Howard Rheingold
- #71 – Community as the Curriculum with Dave Cormier
- #72 – Equity, Culture, and Community with Tricia Ebarvia
- #73 – Power in School with Rob Fried
- #74 – The Power of Learners with Sylvia Martinez
- #75 – Power and Success in the Era of Technology with Dr. Craig Watkins
- #76 – The Power of the System with Özlem Sensoy
- #77 – Attention Literacy with Alec Couros
- #YesAllWomen: What It Means for K-12
- 01. The Modern Learners Lens
- 02. The Immunity to Change Framework: Identifying Your Hidden Commitments
- 03. The Future of Learning and The Path to Success
- 04. From Blame to Learning: Exploring the Power of Just Culture with Julie Stephenson
- 05. Breaking Stigma, Fostering Belonging: The Sources of Strength Movement with Katrina Johnson
- 06. Empowering Students With AI: Lessons From the Past, Opportunities for the Future with Jody Britten
- 07: How Volunteering Becomes a Path to Learning with Nicole Sdao
- 08. Designing Organizations for Engagement and Meaningful Contributions with Nancy J. Hess
- 09. How AI and Chatbots Will Transform Search and Learning with Alex Birkett
- 10 Principles for Schools of Modern Learning
- 10. Storytelling: The Secret Ingredient For Meaningful Change with Graham Callis
- 11. Off The Cuff Rants On Learning: On Defining Levels of Support
- 12: What is Just Culture and Why Organizations Might Want to Learn About It with Julie Stephenson
- 14 Great EML Posts
- 15 for 2015: Questions for the New Year
- 2018-The Year For Living Dangerously
- 2019 – Time to Choose
- 66 Event Design Questions
- A Common Sense Argument
- A Dozen Givens
- A High Stakes Question for the World’s Highest Stakes Test
- A Hippocratic Oath for Ed-Tech
- A Movement of Ideas
- A Parent’s Guide to Prioritizing Emotional Well-Being
- A response to Prince Ea’s viral video “What is School For?”
- A Tale of Two Planets
- Academic Freedom is for Students, Too
- Accountability and the Tyranny of Metrics
- Advocating for Passion-Based Learning (and Puppets)
- Agency and Autonomy in Learning: Starting Points
- Agency and the Rise of New Power
- Announcing: Schools for Modern Learning Workshops in Australia
- Anonymous Messaging Apps on Campus
- AR, VR, AI, and BS: The Modern Learners Podcast, ISTE17 Edition
- Are Apps Becoming the New Worksheet?
- Are We All Powerless?
- Are We Really Listening to Our Students
- Are You a Cook or a Chef?
- Are You Leading Change or Building a Platform for Change?
- Are You Powerless?
- Are Your Schools Tracking These “Trends” on the Internet?
- Arrested (Professional) Development
- Assessing the Learning Process, not the Product
- At Least We’re Talking About Ubiquitous Access
- Babes in the Technology Woods
- Barriers to Social Learning
- Being Digital: Finally.
- Bells and Cells and other Big Fat Myths
- Belonging in Learning Communities and Beyond
- Beware of Proxies
- Beyond Academic Freedom and Dignity
- Beyond Better
- BONUS: 7 Assessment Strategies for Schools of Modern Learning Audio Ebook
- Building a Mission and a Vision That Matters
- Can Science Leadership Academy “Scale”?
- Can We Really Change?
- Captured in Context
- Change.School is Ready for You. Are You Ready for Change.School?
- Changing How We Talk About Change
- Chaos, Order and Learning
- Choosing Progressive Education for Modern Learning
- Cognitive Dissonance: How Teaching with Twitter Opens Up the Classroom
- Commence Learning
- Competency-Based Education: A Primer
- Confirmation Bias and Literacy – The ML Podcast
- Connections and Community in a Modern Learning World
- Conrad Wolfram on the Relevance of Math Education
- COVID-19: Three Phases of Response
- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Primer
- Dare to Re-imagine
- Democracy for Work and Learning
- Design Thinking: For Innovation and For Learning
- Designing for Learning
- Designing Learning Events
- Desmos and the Modern Math Classroom
- Developing a Culture of Yes with Pam Moran
- Digital Storytelling and Online Learning Networks
- Discovering Learning or Delivering an Education
- Disruption, Delusion and Deep Learning
- Diversity in a Complex World with Rafranz Davis
- Doing Work That Matters
- Dr. Nicki Newton on Math Dispositions
- EdTech vs. EdLearning
- Education’s “Alternative Facts”
- Encouraging Self Care
- Every Kid Can Do Amazing Things
- Everything You Think is “Disruptive” Isn’t
- Factory Narrative Of School with Jenn Binis
- Feedback, Affirmation, and the Delusion of Good Work
- Finding the Right Balance: Autonomy and Variability
- Five for the Future: Work
- Fixing What We Broke
- Fostering Independent Learners
- Four For the Future: Credentialing
- Free eBook: 14 Great Posts from EML in 2014
- From Master Teacher to Master Learner Book Excerpt
- From the Quantified Student to the Quantified Self
- From Traditional Teacher to “Modern Learning Advisor”
- Fulfillment Beats “Success”
- Future of Work Is Nothing Without Consideration For The Future of Learning
- Game Over
- Getting Parents Ready for New Context of School
- Homework is a Social Justice Issue
- How Bold is Your Vision?
- How Can Educators Prepare for the Networked Era?
- How Community Voice Can Drive Change in Schools with John Jungmann
- How Curious Are You?
- How do we make the world better than we found it?
- How Do We Measure “Innovation”?
- How Do We Prepare Modern Learners for College?
- How Do You Discover and Develop Talent in Your School?
- How Do You Feel About an Unfair Advantage?
- How Does Your Practice Reflect the Modern Context?
- How Long is the Long Run?
- How Modern is your Curriculum?
- How Not to Change Culture in the Classroom
- How Schools Can Hack their Textbooks
- How Teens Use Social Media
- How to Read “Tech in Schools” Stories
- How to Teach Computer Security Skills
- How Transparency Can Lead Change
- How Video Games Will Save School
- If Only…
- If You Really Want to Change School, You Need to Change the Lens
- If You Think We’ve Seen a Lot of Change, Think Again
- Imagination, Inquiry, and Agency
- Important New Contexts for Leading and Learning
- In Changing Times Should We Consider Changing Times?
- In Search of the Most Amazing Thing*
- Inspecting for Signs of Decay
- Introducing the Modern Learner Series
- Is Higher Ed Broken?
- Is it About Teaching? Or is it About Learning?
- Is There a “Future of Work”?
- Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?
- Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?
- Is Your School Literate?
- Is Zoom Really Meeting Your Needs?
- ISTE a Wrap!
- It Really is Time to Change School
- It’s Gonna Take More Than a “Genius Hour”
- It’s Possible -Focus on Learning for 2029
- It’s Time for Your Professional Learning Checkup
- It’s Time to Lead
- K-12 Education and The “Skills Gap”
- Knowing What You Need to Know
- Lazy Thinking and Commercial Opportunism
- Leadership and Followship
- Leadership Changes at LAUSD: What’s Next for Its iPad Initiative?
- Leading Through the Transition
- Learner First, Modern Second
- Learning About Learning
- Learning As A Retention Strategy?
- Learning From Masters
- Learning is Not a Mechanism
- Learning is Personal not Personalized
- Learning Space Design with Lennie Scott-Webber
- Learning to Change: Trailer
- Learning’s Lousy Adoption Curve
- Lessons for Leaders from LAUSD
- Listening and Hearing
- Literate, Numerate or Curious?
- Looking at Technology Through a Learning Lens
- Makerspace as Mindset
- Making Ed-Tech Predictions: The 2015 Edition
- Making Learning Modern: Redesigning Classrooms
- Making Modern Learning
- Making Way for Modern Ideas
- Modern Learners 2018 Provocation of the Year
- Modern Learners Newsletter #221: The Labor of Learning
- Modern Learners Newsletter #222: Confused Yet?
- Modern Learners Newsletter #223: When Do Exceptions Become the Rule?
- Modern Learners Podcast
- Modern Learning at the Provincial Level: British Columbia is Hoping to Get it Right
- Montana Educators Set to Experience MTEDx-21
- MOOCs: An Introduction
- Moving Beyond “Personalized Instruction”
- Moving Schools Forward: A European Perspective
- New Contexts for New Learning
- New Literacies in the Classroom
- New Site & New Logo: The Big Reveal
- No Engagement? No Education.
- Nobody Rises to Low Expectations
- On Social Media, Silence, and Things That Matter
- On Trump and Tech
- One Small Step…in Time
- Openness and Ownership: Who Owns School Work?
- Our Commitment to Your Privacy: No More Cookies
- Our Moral Imperative
- Our Resolution: Be Less Efficient. And Ship.
- Our Uncertain Moment
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Parents as Modern Learners
- Peter Grey on Being Free to Learn During COVID0-19
- Place Based Education with Tom Vander Ark
- Power and Change in Schools
- Professional Autonomy: Myth or Reality?
- Professional Learning: Path to Agency and Impact
- Protecting Student Privacy through More Transparency
- Putting the EdTech Cart Before the Horse
- Questions Over Answers
- Raising (and Educating) “Free Range Kids”
- Raising the Bar on Change in Schools
- Reading and Research in the Age of Wikipedia
- Reducing the Echo
- Reflections on a Parallel Universe
- Resolutions that will make a Difference in 2015
- Rethinking “Student Achievement”
- Rethinking “Success” in 2015
- Rethinking “What Counts”
- Rethinking Assessment, Supporting Diversity
- Rethinking Assessment: Pearson and “Efficacy”
- Rethinking Literacy for the Web
- Rethinking the (Under-)Education System
- Risk.
- Road to Nowhere
- Schooling and Snow Days
- Schools are “Totally Predictable.” We Good With That?
- Schools in a Time of Chaos
- Schools That Learn
- Separating Education Research from Marketing
- Share This: Self-Publishing for Modern Schools
- Should You Build a Brain-Based School?
- Small Communities, Tightly Joined
- So Many Questions…
- Starting a Different Conversation
- STEM and Gender
- Stop Asking How
- Student Data vs Student Privacy
- Student Feedback Surveys Ask the Wrong Questions
- Surveillance Software: the focus of EdTech
- Sustainable Pedagogy
- Tablets vs Laptops: Why This Is (Often) The Wrong Debate
- Tacit Expertise vs. Explicit Knowledge
- Taking Inventory of the Ed-Tech Schools Use
- Teaching and Learning in the Midst of Crisis
- Tech Trends to Watch (for Self-Directed Learners)
- Teens in Public / Online: It’s Complicated
- Tell “Risky” Stories
- Telling a Different Story about Education
- Testing Assumptions About Self-Directedness
- Testing: Moving Beyond the Public Relations Battle
- The “One Really Competitive Skill”
- The Absolute Best We Can Do For Kids
- The Antithesis of Agency
- The Art of Unlearning
- The Artistry of Teaching
- The Benefits of Coding for the Whole Learner
- The Changing Nature of Knowledge
- The Circus Around International Benchmarking
- The Conditions for Difficult Conversations
- The Dangers of Standardized Testing and Why We Need to Slay the Beast
- The Dark Arts of Our Agents of Change
- The EduRoad Ahead
- The Eight Principles of Modern School Transformation
- The EML Podcast with Ben Grey: Courage and Commitment
- The EML Podcast: Roger Schank
- The End of the Beginning of New Credentials
- The Era of Sanitized Computing
- The Folly of Curriculum as Political Football
- The Global Refrigerator Door
- The Importance of Common Language
- The Importance of Forgetting
- The Kids (and Schools) are Not Alright
- The Language of Leadership
- The Moons are Aligning
- The Most Important Skill for the Future: Being Human
- The Most Important Talent Search in the World
- The Mystery of Pedagogy
- The Mythology of School Mathematics
- The Nature of Change: Exploration vs Exploitation
- The NEXT Wave
- The Only Skill That Really Matters
- The Pain of Powerful Policy
- The Paradox of Success
- The Power of “Live-By” Professional Learning
- The Powers That Be
- The Problem with “Personalization”
- The Realities of Deep Change with Lawrence DeMaeyer
- The Rise of the Learning Economy
- The Rise of the Learning Professional
- The Risks and Rewards of Changing the Game
- The Roots of Change
- The Science of the Mind in the Classroom of the Future
- The Science of Transformation
- The Stories We Tell about Education Technology
- The Transformation Fantasy
- The Unpleasant Truth About Equity
- The Urgency to Unlearn
- The Value of a Cold Shower
- The WTF Economy? (As in “What’s the Future?”)
- The Zen of School Change
- There’s Really Only One Way to “Raise Student Engagement”
- They’ve been Promoted!
- Thinking Classrooms with Peter Liljedahl
- Thinking With Them
- This Is Not An Essay
- This is What Powerful Professional Learning Looks Like
- This New School Year, What Do You Believe About Learning?
- Thoroughly Modern Learning
- To Administrate or To Lead
- Toward More Ambitious Practice in Schools
- Trauma and Learning
- Truthiness and the Education Conversation
- Undemocratic Schools, Undemocratic Citizens
- Urgent Memo: We’re Losing Teachers
- Variability and Inequity
- Voice, Choice and Mastery with Rodney Bowler
- Wanted: Professional Learners
- We Choose the Stories We Tell
- Welcome to Educating Modern Learners
- What a Girl Wants
- What Are Games and Simulations Good For?
- What Can K-12 Learn from MOOCs?
- What Counts? How Informal Learning is Challenging Formal Education
- What Do We Mean By “Open Education”?
- What Do We Mean By Dropout?
- What Does (and Doesn’t) Progressive Education Plus Technology Look Like? Thoughts on AltSchool
- What Educators Need to Know About Today’s Internet
- What Have You Learnt This Year?
- What I Need from My Principal to Make School Different
- What If We Stopped Evaluating Teachers?
- What is “This?”
- What Is Net Neutrality and Why Should Educators Care That It’s In Danger?
- What Motivates Learners? Freedom.
- What Qualifies as Transformative Technology in Education?
- What Really Makes a Difference? Finland Knows
- What Research do You Find Most Useful?
- What Should School Leaders Know About Adaptive Learning?
- What Should School Leaders Know About Gamification?
- What the Internet is Becoming
- What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Connectedness
- What We Know Isn’t What We Do
- What We Mean When We Talk About “Scale”
- What You Should Know This Week
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- What You Should Know This Week: Net Neutrality
- What’s Changed? Recap of 200 Shifting Conversations
- What’s Old is New
- What’s Worth Learning in School?
- When Leaders Leave Can Change be Sustained?
- Where Have all the Powerful Ideas Gone?
- Who Are These Modern Learners?
- Who Directs the “Self-Directed?”
- Who is Paying Attention?
- Who Knows About Modern Learning?
- Who Owns Advocacy?
- Who you gonna call? Silobusters!
- Why Curriculum Constrains Learning
- Why Inquiry?
- Why Nostalgia May be Our Biggest Barrier
- Why Start With Why Not?
- Why This Time is Different
- Why Wouldn’t We…Learn From the Kids
- Will an “Hour of Code” Change School?
- Will Learner Voice Lead to the Learner’s Revolution?
- Will Skills Save Us?
- Willing to be Affirmed
- Without A Net
- Word of the Day: Heutagogy
- World Book Day Recommendations
- Yoga Balls in Rows
- Yoga Balls in Rows
- Your Attention, Please
