Group items tagged

THE FIVE W'S OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING The 5 W's are the What, Who, Where, Why, and Wow of Personalized Learning. Learn what is and what is not personalized learning, learn how learners learn best, walk through the Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments, understand how teacher and learner roles will change, and how to use assessment AS learning.

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment

"There's been an on-going industrial-institutional complex at play here for at least the past 30 years that has ensured the continued irrelevance of technology to learning"

The Colorado Legacy Foundation's video about their Expanded Learning Opportunities Initiative  (video)

Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning.

Presented by Dr. Lisa Wilson  Pedagogical Interfaces:  Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization

Until rather recently, the places where teens would find one another were physical, geographical spaces, but today they are more often located in cyberspace. Many adults are puzzled, and some are apppalled, by the amount of time teens spend online and by what they seem to do there. A terrific new book by danah boyd (who spells her name without capitals), entitled It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, helps us make sense of it.

What does the future of education look like? One where the student play an active role in their education through an interactive, personalized, and continuous learning experience.

16-year-old student Nikhil Goyal calls for educational reform and is writing a book on the subject. 

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives. 

To succeed as a planet in the 21st century, a strong education for every human being isn't just important, it is essential. An open letter to educators from a college dropout who says his schooling interfered with his education. 

The CECER-DLL project is a cooperative agreement awarded to the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The initiative targets children who are dual language learners (birth-age 5) and their families across settings such as: early care and education center-based programs, home-based and family child care providers, and Head Start and Early Head Start Programs.