Posts by Guest Author
Design Thinking for Student Ownership of Learning
By: Sara Matlock. The 24 Hour Think Challenge, organized by a student led non-profit in Idaho called One Stone, brought together 150 high school juniors from across southwest Idaho to tackle issues facing education in the 21st Century.
5 Things You Need to Know About the Hour of Code
By Mike Ritchie: The Hour of Code. How are students learning it? Who is teaching it? And at the end of the hour, what do students know that they didn’t know before?
Teaching Kids to Navigate Social Media? It’s a Matter of Principle
By: Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff. Practical strategies and resources to help parents navigate social media decisions, and the role of principles in the journey to do what's right online.
America: Abandon Your Reverence for the Bachelor’s Degree
By: Mary Alice McCarthy. The stories of how two nephews navigated heavy HigherEd decisions, and how the postsecondary landscape is changing by innovations like the Bachelor's of applied science options.
Hacking Leadership: Rethinking EdTech Impact and Research
By: Jason Ribeiro. Massive, multi-million dollar educational technology projects in North America’s largest school districts are not having the impacts senior leaders and stakeholders expect. Why?
3 Steps for Choosing Learning Games for Children
By: Kristen DiCerbo. The actual process of selecting educational games can itself be a learning process… for kids and adults. Here are three steps to help in making decisions when it comes to learning games.
Professional Development: Technology’s Key to Success
By: Lucy Kosturko. Tomorrow’s classroom has arrived, and it’s an exciting place. But, the revolutionary teaching required to meet that goal demands adequate time and training. We must recognize that adequate PD is a necessary condition for the success of innovative educational technologies.
Teachers and Technology in Education
By: Curt Allen. We want to support, not replace teachers. We want to enhance their professional advancement as they develop the young minds in their care. We want to help them prepare better, counsel with peers better and take objective measures of their students’ unique abilities and special needs. We want to be responsive to their preferences, whether they teach from a traditional, personalized, blended or project-based style.
For #SmartParents, It’s About Getting Smart
By: Patrick Riccards. Earlier this year, I was part of an important project from Getting Smart called #SmartParents. It was developed, with the support of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, to provide both guidance and personal stories from parents to parents about how we can be more active and positively involved in our kids’ learning process.
Inspiring Creativity, Entrepreneurialism and Making: Global Cardboard Challenge
By: Mike McGalliard. The Global Cardboard Challenge culminates in a day of block parties, show-and-tells, and open houses throughout the country that will celebrate making, entrepreneurialism and creativity.