We need to stop pandering to our "digital native" students and provide structures and platforms that better enable their success.
Eric Sheninger | Posted 05.15.2012
Even as we are seeing more schools and educators transform the way they teach and learn with technology, many more are not. Some of the reasons for not embracing technology have to do with several misconceptions.
Larry Magid | Posted 05.10.2012
Thanks to technology, the world can be our teacher and the Internet our classroom. What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.
Gary Stager | Posted 04.10.2012
While Accelerated Reader suggests that it inspires literacy habits, its primary customer is the bureaucrat impressed by the marketing slogan, "Advanced Technology for Data-Driven Schools."
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Posted 04.05.2012
By Angel Idowu Angel is a high school reporter for The Mash, a weekly teen publication distributed to Chicagoland high schools. Many students d...
Lori Day | Posted 04.29.2012
When the iPad2 came out, much of my cynicism was directed at yet another expensive piece of hardware that would require infrastructural tech supports that school districts don't always have, especially the poorer ones.
Eric Sheninger | Posted 03.19.2012
When it comes to technology, the perception is that it is the least important area in which to invest precious funds. This is why the time is now to seriously consider developing a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative.
Michael Levine | Posted 01.08.2012
The recent series of reports on technology's unfulfilled promise by the New York Times called "Grading the Digital School" is an important wake-up cal...
Melodi Anahtar | Posted 12.10.2011
It takes more than getting high-tech gadgets into the classroom for them to make a difference.
The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 12.06.2011
In a time of educational debate and shuffling nationwide, a college dropout, businessman and paragon of technological innovation emerged as an inadver...
John Merrow | Posted 11.13.2011
Schools will never realize the power of technology until they get out from under our current way of holding them accountable. We need accountability, but what we are now doing is stifling learning and teaching. It's making public education worse, not better.
Scott McLeod | Posted 11.08.2011
Can educators really claim to be relevant to life outside of schools while simultaneously ignoring the technological transformations that surround them?
Eric Sheninger | Posted 11.06.2011
As educators, we must establish a vision for our students and model the use of cell phones as mobile learning devices in order to empower them to embrace the same view.
Brad Spirrison | Posted 10.25.2011
When it comes to developing educational apps for elementary, high school and college students alike, there are a few local developers who are schooling the competition.
Eric Sheninger | Posted 07.26.2011
We have seen many shifts in terms of instruction, communication, and learning at NMHS resulting in a transformative culture that is more in line to meet the needs of our students.
Eric Sheninger | Posted 06.26.2011
There has been a great deal of discussion lately as to the necessity of administrators utilizing social media as a part of their professional practice.
Posted 06.09.2011
A Maine school system may be adding the iPad 2 to its list of mandatory kindergarten classroom items, with the district footing the bill. The Aubur...
John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011
We can't pry our kids' fingers off their electronic devices by fiat, but we can channel their desires for communication and companionship into more productive endeavors.
Scott McLeod | Posted 05.25.2011
If we were really serious about educational technology, we would. Here are 10 ways to get you started.
Scott McLeod | Posted 05.25.2011
I've watched this TED talk by Sugata Mitra several times now. And every time I watch it, my brain keeps asking the same question.
Dr. Barbara Kurshan | Posted 05.25.2011
The Open Education Resources movement is on the cusp of hitting prime time this year, changing traditional notions of the teaching and learning process across the globe.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.17.2011
In today's world, many students in the U.S. schools aren't taught to work hard.
Robert Schwartz | Posted 05.17.2012