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To Get the Most Out of Tablets, Use Smart Curation
How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices? Tools like Evernote and GoodReads allow for easy and valuable curation. But the harder questions are pedagogical and curricular.
Why Computers Alone Won’t Move the Needle
Though a large study showed that the act of giving kids computers did not alone affect grades or attendance, the results may have been different had the students had some guidance on how to best use the computers and if teachers had been involved in connecting the home computers with what was going on in the classroom.
To Get Students Invested, Involve Them in Decisions Big and Small
It can be amazing and illuminating, once this door is opened, to see and hear the myriad ways that students understand learning and engagement.
Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?
Everyday there is less standardization of information, making it nearly impossible to decide what a student should know. Are sticking to content standards still appropriate?
Good Read: Are We Turning Our Education System Into Our Financial System?
Educator Justin Reich says he’s deeply concerned about how online learning will change society. He says the pay-for-play model that online learning represents could change the nature of American polity.
New Report Challenges Beliefs About the Value of AP Classes
Though it’s a widely held belief that AP courses enrich a student’s education because the courses are rigorous, course quality varies, one researcher said, depending on how it’s taught.
The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media
By Justin Reich The Someday/Monday dichotomy captures one of the core challenges in teacher professional development around education technology. On the one hand, deep integration of new learning technologies into classrooms requires substantially rethinking pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and teacher practice (someday). For technology to make a real difference in student learning, it can’t just be [...]
Sesame Street Meets the App Age: How to Nurture Creative Learning
By Björn Jeffery and Michael H. Levine All over the world—from East Asia to South Africa to the Caribbean Basin—ministers of government, captains of industry, and scholars are discussing the best ways to foment innovation. Many experts still regard the United States as a leader in promoting creative uses of capital, technology, and people, with unrivaled [...]
Parents May Devote More Teaching Time to Girls Than to Boys
By Shankar Vedantam For some years now, teachers and parents have noted something about boys and girls. Starting in elementary school, young girls often score better on reading and math tests than young boys do. The differences are uneven on different tests and do not describe the experience of every child, but empirical studies do [...]
Kids and Adults: How To Avert Communication Breakdown
By Matt Levinson Kids operate in a blizzard of communication — texts, social media, music, photography, games, and videos. They’re eager to share any and all new media they discover. In fact, their default action is to share and distribute as they’re living the moment. For the most part, adults take on a more contained, [...]
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