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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A Free College Degree for Starbucks Employees? 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
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On lists of the most important trends in education technology, you’ll often find “adaptive learning” and its promise that technologies will be able to “adapt” instruction and assessment to individual students. In this article, EML editor Audrey Watters offers an “explainer,” an introduction to adaptive learning, the research behind, the companies building it, and the
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Late last year, the education giant Pearson announced that it would begin to focus on “efficacy,” measuring and enhancing the learning outcomes associated with its products and services. EML editor Audrey Watters looks at Pearson’s new framework and asks if “efficacy” is a good way for us to rethink teaching and learning in a digital
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