Tag Archives: 21st Century learning

Picting, not Writing, is the Literacy of Today’s Youth

Posted on May 10, 2017 by

Is a picture really worth 1,000 words? Two interesting observations: In the K–12 classroom, today’s youth spend 90 percent of the time with text-based materials and 10 percent of the time with image-based materials. Outside the K–12 classroom, today’s youth … Continue reading →

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6 Pillars to Successfully Integrate Technology In Your 1:1 Classroom

Posted on January 12, 2016 by

Inspired By Gary Spracklen of Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA), United Kingdom The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom.  In the last … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Future Ready Schools and Leaders

Posted on December 21, 2015 by

Last week was an historic week for U.S. education! In addition to the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the Office of Educational Technology at the USDOE released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP) and announced new Future … Continue reading →

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The Six Hats a Personalized Learning Leader Needs to Wear

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

Summit Public Schools CEO Diane Tavenner has been described as transformative, innovative, and entrepreneurial—apropos for the founder of a pioneering network of charter schools that combine teacher-led instruction and self-paced student learning online. Summit piloted its first blended learning initiative in 2011, … Continue reading →

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8 Online Learning Trends that are Changing the Learning Landscape

Posted on November 4, 2015 by

Seeking access to more and better learning opportunities, a state official called and asked about next generation K-12 online learning. Despite recent headlines, we’ve seen online learning make a big impact in K-12. And we see eight trends–some emerging from … Continue reading →

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10 Social Media Competencies for 21st Century Teachers

Posted on October 13, 2015 by

Digital social networking is a game changer in the learning landscape. It is an invention that amounts in its importance and usefulness to the big inventions that marked all mankind history. In ancient times, cultures, in the absence of any … Continue reading →

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15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer)

Posted on September 24, 2015 by

According to Code.org, 90 percent of U.S. schools are not teaching any computer science. Eyebrows were raised in 2013 as the U.K. passed a plan to educate every child how to code. In 2014, Barack Obama made history as the … Continue reading →

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It’s Time to Get Rid of Education’s Sacred Cows

Posted on September 22, 2015 by

Education Needs More Questioning Practitioners It used to be that when I attended events with people outside the education tribe and told them what I did for a living, they would smile and say something like, “Education, that’s such an … Continue reading →

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7 Tenets of Creative Thinking

Posted on July 15, 2015 by

In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of … Continue reading →

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Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach

Posted on June 10, 2015 by

Student-centered, technology-driven instruction remains elusive for most Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students. They spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content. And nearly three-fourths of high school students now say they … Continue reading →

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