Sunday, 22 November 2015

EducationSuperHighway's “2015 State of the States” report finds that 77% of 6,781 school districts now have Internet speeds of 100 kbps per student, meeting the FCC’s definition of a speed “sufficient” for digital learning - From Education Dive

Monday, 26 October 2015

K12 - Virtually Unstoppable

2015 schedule

An online conference open to anyone organised by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A key goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

The Most innovative schools in America

There are schools in America intent on breaking away from the norm.

From an "off-the-grid" school that relies on solar panels to classrooms in a public library, there are schools re-imagining education. 

Startup Noodle has released its first ever Innovative Schools report, which identifies 41 public, private and charter K-12 schools that rise above the rest. Launched by Princeton Review Founder John Katzman, Noodle provides educational resources to parents and teachers, and it spent the last year examining 140,000 schools to come up with this list.

Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

John Hattie's new study - The Politics of Distraction

You can download, read and share it for free here

 

Spot the difference! Is it between or within schools?

 

 

 

Sunday, 30 August 2015

Teaching With Touch

By taking advantage of the built-in haptics of tablets, a specialized app was created that uses distinct vibrations to help students navigate graphs. Thus far, in-class trials have been met with remarkable success and the app is being prepared for a consumer debut.4

Take, for instance, the brilliant work being done by Jenna Gorlewicz, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Medical and Electromechanical Design laboratory.

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Google launches teacher training centre to prepare educators to use its education tools in the classroom.

The Google Education Training Center offers free professional development resources and courses for teachers who use the Google for Education apps.


http://www.educationdive.com/news/google-launches-teacher-training-center/403756/

Thursday, 2 July 2015

The death of the exam: Canada is at the leading edge of killing the dreaded annual ‘final’ for good

“We are in the midst of an educational revolution,” says Stuart Shanker, distinguished research professor of philosophy and psychology at York University and a leading figure in educational reform. “Everything’s going to change now.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-death-of-the-exam-canada-is-at-the-leading-edge-of-killing-the-final-for-good