personalized learning

EdTech

Robots & Implications For Life On Planet Earth

It's hard to know how the growth of robots and maker learning tools will all play out but three near term educational implications seem clear. It will let kids show what they know, and there will be more opportunities for interest-based learning and deeper learning.

Personalized Learning

Success in Algebra Requires Deeper Learning

By: Tim Hudson. All math teachers will tell you they want students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers. Yet we see plenty of evidence that most students are not performing as well as we would hope. To ensure student success in Algebra 1 and beyond, students need to think on their own and design their own solutions to problems.

EdTech

The Context-Driven Future of Learning

The future will be personalized, whether it’s online search or learning. The content-driven internet and personalized learning are in its initial stages of development. But as the tools and technology continue to improve, learning will become more accessible, more tailored, more immediate, and more powerful.

Personalized Learning

Student Motivation Matters: 25 Tips and Strategies

A new report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reviews what we know about student motivation. It's a great summary of academic research on motivation, but it stops short of illuminating the path forward.

Personalized Learning

Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?

It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.

Leadership

How to Give Students a Chance at the Game

As Putnam describes in his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, it is key that we move towards a collective responsibility, and a “return to being a nation where there are only ‘our kids,’ not just ‘my kids.’”