Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors of a new report, it’s not schools that need a “rethink” as much as school staffing. Yet the authors found challenges as well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Given the pace of change in higher education today, it should come as no surprise that colleges and universities are investing in research and development labs dedicated to academic and business-model innovation. Done right, these labs have the potential to transform institutional cultures. We are transdisciplinary to the core.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

They are: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture. Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s what professor Jerry Wind asked the audience at the the Reimagine Education conference this week, and he guessed that most envisioned a professor at the front of a group of students gathered in rows. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It

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