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Here are the kinds of things I believe need to be happening as learners come together in online communities of practice.

why I love teaching so much, it really comes down to one thing….relationships.

embrace and accept our students’ need for building relationships and socializing.

but the learning objectives must come first and then the right online content, or tool to create the content, must be chosen to ensure the best fit to enable learners to achieve the required learning objectives. The

how you make that vision come to life, and model what you expect to see from you students and embody the notion of a learning organization

consumers of mass media can come to believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is through constant exposure to violent imagery or commentary

That “off” switch is becoming more important in the social media age, experts say. Seeking out information to ascertain one’s personal safety is a biological imperative, but so is a tendency to overdo things. Much of the solution will depend on people becoming aware of their own satiation points, Hodson says.

education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.

The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs

Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.

There’s always going to be a demand for an adult to be leading child instruction. They’re needed for the feedback piece, or the compassion piece, or the guidance piece. Besides, parents will want that; they feel most comfortable with that.

The program has to be mission-driven.

Right now, we’re in a murky, gray area when it comes to blended learning. In 20 years, we’ll have some tried and true methods. Right now, it’s just messy. And schools have to be okay with messy, with not smooth.

“Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”

e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.

“I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”

When it comes to technology – something so ingrained in our daily lives – what if we stop asking “why” and start asking “how”? What if we told stories about solutions instead of failures?

a larger issue when it comes to modern media and our kids….we parents don’t understand it and as a result, don’t want to talk to them about it.