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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. The Internet of Things (IoT) impacts virtually all of us.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Her remarks.)

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Using Makerspaces to Support Personalized Learning

edWeb.net

They had a bee robot that they learned to program to better understand bee behaviors. This article was modified and published by eSchool News and EdScoop. While the projects are service-oriented, such as building a pollinator garden and bee hive, the students use digital resources at multiple points to complete the project.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). AI extra: I couldn’t help spilling this trend over into artificial intelligence (AI) by sharing some of my favorite examples of useful applications: JSTOR Labs Text Analyzer Upload an article, your own paper, an illustration. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake The Thrillist had just published an article on “ The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Contest Changed Binge-Watching Forever.”

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

Edsurge

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own? It is good!

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Inspiring Students: Bringing Awe Back to Learning

A Principal's Reflections

A recent New York Times article detailed how humans can get goose bumps when we experience awe, that often-positive feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends our understanding of the world. Awe might seem like just another three-letter word, but it is so much more. Below is the one video of his that got me hooked.

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