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. Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California.

Knowledge 146

Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 146

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. We must be educators, administrators, storytellers and scientists, all at once. We are transdisciplinary to the core.

Mental Models 158

Mental Models Intelligence Culture Participation 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Caulfield, along with Stanford University emeritus education professor Sam Wineburg, set out to create that guidance for students — and anyone struggling to cope with today’s information landscape. Instead, they just need a little bit of guidance on how to approach the flood of text, images and websites they encounter on a daily basis.

Internet 215

Internet Attention Students Evaluation 215

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.

Teachers 160

Teachers Coaching Mental Models Culture 160

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

This is the first in a series of articles chronicling how education leaders across the country understand the assumptions built into edtech products. But how aware are educators of the assumptions behind edtech tools? Too often, school leaders focus on finding the right instructional model and assume that the technology will fit.

Textbooks 137

Textbooks Mental Models Coaching Communication 137

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century. Although some educators have grown weary of the term “21st century learning,” the drive to transform education “matters more today—a lot more—than when we started the conversation.”

Skills 167

Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

Chapter 4 gave me a lot to think about and there are numerous ideas in Chapter 5 for taking educators’ learning in some new directions, particularly pages 152-155 where Eric and Tom describe some ways to move from hours- to outcomes-based ‘accountability’ for educator learning.

Learning 88

Learning Schools Mental Models Discussions 88