Remove urban-planner-online-learning-communities
article thumbnail

Think Like an Urban Planner to Create Successful Online Learning Communities

Fractus Learning

But often, when we try to create community online through discussion forums or social media, our efforts fall flat. To avoid this, start thinking of your online community as a mega-city and yourself as an urban planner. You need both city-wide and neighborhood-level community strategies in order to succeed.

article thumbnail

My List of Best Education Videos – 2019

User Generated Education

By applying wisdom from change management theory, instructional coaching, the tech industry, and even the fitness world, we can learn how to fight weight and drag, increase lift and thrust, and make our schools truly exceptional. Pedro Noguera shares his insights on educational equity, Project Based Learning, and more at PBL World 2019.

Video 158
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How young is too young to start introducing students to future careers?

The Hechinger Report

Five-year-olds learn about police officers, doctors, artists, teachers, bakers and farmers. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Students will also learn, over the years, about being a yoga instructor, a librarian, a carpenter and an operations manager.

Dropout 109
article thumbnail

Build With Care: Recruiting Student and Teacher Voices to Rethink Schools Because of the Pandemic

MindShift

As we reflect on the experience of learning during COVID, a big question looms: What will schools look like after the pandemic? In the first, schools seek to return to “normal” and resume the familiar rhythms of teaching and learning much as they were before the COVID disruption. Unfortunately, both scenarios are problematic.

article thumbnail

Can Tech Fill the Gaping Hole Left by Teacher Exodus?

EdNews Daily

We have a growing number of non-traditional students (homeless, poverty, minority) who come from non-traditional families (merged, minority, single parent, two-working parents) and who learn in non-traditional ways (technology). Can Technology Save Us? There’s more to this discussion, but the top-line rough estimates are that the 3.3

EdTech 100
article thumbnail

The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones

The Hechinger Report

In his sparsely settled community in the agricultural countryside of southern Iowa, “There’s just no motivation for people to go” to college, Gordon said. They score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students and graduate from high school at a higher percentage than the national average, the U.S.

Report 107