Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Unfortunately, current learner navigation systems more closely resemble the early, self-contained GPS devices with incomplete and inaccurate maps. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems. K-12 learners.

Google 81

Google Academic Standards Education Data 81

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. For example, I love the idea of mobile learning, so I attach positive feelings to it that can lead me to cognitive distortions downstream, where I oversimplify it’s function, or catastrophize our continued misunderstanding of its potential in education.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40

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JUNE 22, 2015

But for students, the ultimate support system is not an expert teacher, but an informed and supportive family. Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. Your shoulders, then.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

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MAY 15, 2015

Mobile learning, digital citizenship, design thinking, collaboration, creativity, and on a larger scale, digital literacy (education not yet comfortable enough with these ideas to teach “just citizenship” or “just literacy”),1:1, and more are skills and content bits that every student would benefit from exposure to and mastery of.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Tablets Mobile Learning 40

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

Fail to meaningfully involve–or better yet, require –community involvement in every layer of our system of teaching and learning. Plan backwards from standards. Say we value depth over breadth, but then have policies and systems in place that imply the opposite. (It’s theirs , not ours.).

Education 40

Education Academic Standards Policies Mobile Learning 40

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Academic standards could be supplanted by “other content” As access to information increases and social chatter reaches a never-ending crescendo, the need—and impact of—hundreds and hundreds of academic standards changes. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

Maker Movement 40

Maker Movement Academic Standards Education Elementary 40