How Individualized Learning Leverages Technology for Deeper Learning: What School Could Be in Hawai’i
This is an episode from Josh Reppun’s “What School Could Be in Hawai’i,” a podcast on the people, technology and methodologies pushing the mantle of education in the 50th...
Study: American Students Display Average Tech Skills
American students scored slightly above average when it came to tech scores. How can that be when young people are thoroughly inundated with tech on a regular basis? Is there...
Why Colleges and Universities Need to Overhaul Their Strategy in 2020
After nearly 200 years in existence, Green Mountain College in western Vermont is no more. The same goes for Southern Vermont College, the College of St. Joseph and Atlantic...
4 Keys to Getting the Most from GIS Data after Redrawing Boundaries
By Eric Wells When Muskogee Public Schools was faced with the need to completely redraw the school boundaries in our district, investing in geographic information system (GIS) software was an...
3 Pillars of Online School Communities
By Ali Arsan Back when I built my first school website, the standout feature was an alumni directory. Technology has improved enough since the ‘90s that no one is going...
Personalizing a Student’s Classroom Experience Through Differentiated Instruction
One of the biggest struggles in the classroom for educators is finding the right balance between getting everyone in the classroom to follow the curriculum and pace of the...
How To Lead as a Connected Educator
Digital tools have changed the way we think about teaching and learning. You might host a virtual guest speaker in your classroom, or empower students as website designers or moviemakers. Today we...
Teaching Music through Projects, Challenges, and Portfolios: What School Could Be in Hawai’i
This is an episode from Josh Reppun's "What School Could Be in Hawai'i," a podcast on the people, technology and methodologies pushing the mantle of education in the 50th...
Strengthening Classroom Community with Movie Making
I've had the pleasure of working with this company. All opinions are my own. Whether it’s the beginning, middle or end of the school year, it’s always a wonderful time...
Does Technology Enable Better Communication From Teachers to Parents?
Is Technology in the Classroom Enabling Teachers to Better Communicate With Parents? In a recent #Edchat discussion we discussed whether or not schools should encourage teachers to use technology to...
Utilizing Project Based Learning and “20 Percent Time” in Schools
Melissa Speetjens, the Principal at Waimea Canyon Middle School on the island of Kauai (the westernmost middle school in the United States), is a mentor in the Hawaiʻi Innovative...
What to Watch for at Texas Ed Con 2019
The new school year is underway, making it an ideal time for professors and education professionals to collaborate on the latest trends in their field. This weekend in Dallas,...
EdTech and 21st-Century Education
As an early Baby Boomer, born just after WWII, I began my public education in the early '50s. College got me through the '60s and I began teaching in...
Helping English Language Learners Succeed
In states like California, up to 20 percent of students are English Language Learners, but we're not just talking about Spanish. ELLs speak 150 different languages in the U.S.,...
Student Data Is Like a Scale for Improvement
Using data is like jumping on a scale. You can weigh yourself over and over again, but until you do something about the number you see on the scale,...
How Online Learning Went Mainstream
The Growing Prevalence of Online Education One out of three higher education students takes at least one course online. About one in six students enroll entirely in online courses to...
Social-Emotional Learning, Seasonality in Marketing, and Used Clothes
Here's the rundown for the August 23rd episode of Business Casual with Daniel Litwin & Tyler Kern: Lauren Farrell, MarketScale's senior director of marketing, joined the show to discuss...
Harvard Professor Defends Social-Emotional Learning Program
The Education Liberty Watch recently published a piece attacking the educational philosophy of social-emotional learning. Curious to learn how others feel about this method of learning, Daniel Litwin had...
Robots in the Classroom and on the Red Planet
For most of us reading this, it's been a minute since we've attended middle school. Naturally, you’d imagine the textbooks currently in use have been updated over the years....
The Future of Education: How Blended Learning Prepares Students for Success
Gone are the days of overhead projectors and composition notebooks in the classroom. The technology revolution has made its way into education. Some critics frown upon the rapid influx...
The Shortlist 8/9: Behind the Disney Bundle and the Amazon-FedEx Break Up
The Magic Kingdom is keeping an eye on cord cutting. Disney announced a new bundled streaming service this week which includes ESPN-Plus and Hulu as it braces for the...
Should Schools Teach Students How to Spot Fake News?
While the educational curriculum has not changed markedly for many students over the years, the world around the classroom has rapidly changed. This dynamic begs the question of whether the...
14 Quick Ways to Tech-Up Your Classroom
14 Quick ways to tech-up your classroom Getting used to using tech-enabled educational tools in the classroom needn’t be a huge undertaking, so why not dabble on a class-by-class basis...
6 Habits of Highly Effective E-Teachers
6 Habits of highly effective e-teachers Some of us can distinctly recall a charismatic, persuasive or empathetic teacher – someone who cut through our teenage turmoil and managed to teach us...
B2B Back to School: Exploring the Linear Communication Strategy
Key Quotes: 01:12-01:30 - "If you think about it, what is one of the safest environments you can think of?" 03:45-04:09 - "The challenges are, how easy is it...