Nestled between Julia Auster's fantasy football app and Facebook Messenger is a relatively new bucket of apps: the education tools she uses in the French classes she teaches at Robert Adams Middle School in Holliston, Mass. Auster isn't alone.
Ted talks are interesting and useful at times in the classroom but will students automatically make connections to class content? This annotating tool enables either instructors or students to make explicit connections or commentary and share the end product.
Schools often work in isolation or from top down directives. This site has some interesting components to its design around methodologies for digitally delivered PD: Individualization, institutional buy-in, top to bottom integration and support.
disruptive technology, DTPs offer teachers the curriculum, pedagogy and assessment support they need, and thereby help them make classrooms more effective and more customized to the needs of each learner.
I was intrigued by Howard Gardner's comment at the end of his talk when he (to paraphrase) said that he thought "education" as we know it is coming to an end and being replaced by learning. That's the conclusion I have been straying to as a result of my coursework this past semester. Education cannot respond to innovations the way businesses do.
A couple months back Prof. Dede said a change in education was necessary because the status quo was facing collapse. We're see these kinds of decisions all over the country in the past few weeks. I wonder if we're seeing the change.
This is a "schools in general" issue, not just a virtual schools issue.
“I know there are millions of dollars being bled from the system that have no accountability tied to them,” said Democratic Senate President Brandon Shaffer,