What if school playgrounds came equipped with building materials, tools, and movable pieces? There is this breakthrough notion that students may be interested in exploring while using their imagination, go figure?
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Our school systems has failed our children by not keeping them safe at schools, not turning a conflict into a teachable moment, and by suspending students for days at a time. What is going on?
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Is a child’s future fixed at birth, determined by family strength and the parent’s financial status? Karl Alexander notes in his research that all of the kids who got a better start at life because their parents were married and working ended up better off and for the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor
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There are many ways to have a parent teacher conference and yes, they are necessary but what if I told you parent teacher conferences are changing. Conferences usually suggest reporting which hinders a two way form of communication
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McGraw-Hill Education has published it! It’s here! It’s here! This new program is called StudySync, while only catering to grades 4th-12th, this new comprehensive, full year curriculum provides materials for both the teacher and the learner
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Periscope is a new app that is connected to twitter. This app allows you to braodcast video’s from anywhere in the world! It was developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein
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AltSchool is a new school this year with a mission of combining Montessori and a School of One. NPR calls it the school for 2030. Who would have thought of this amazing thing, well former Google start-up Max Ventilla did!
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Let’s support our digital natives and enhance their skills! Let’s just do it! Dr. Scott McLeod states in his blog on Dangerously Irrelevant, Technology, Leadership, and the future of schools.
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Put technology in kids’ hands as early as possible and let them drive the initiative forward, says Professor Katie Morrow. Wow, to have students involved in planning? What an idea! At the University of Kentucky professor Nash developed Design Thinking which is sort of what Morrow is implying.
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Yes! Blended learning is what we are moving towards because no-one gets left behind. Many teachers use technology to support students in many ways schools are adopting programs that are online while mixing it with face-to-face teaching
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What are your thoughts of “phenomenon teaching” or as some may call it “teaching by topic?” Finland is reforming its educational system. As we in the States are focusing our attention on the Common Core they are moving toward teaching by topic.
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