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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

While the teachers in my audience will probably know the difference, it does not help that the Common Core Standards are exceptionally vague about the type of digital skills students need to exhibit. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. Being able to provide this experience to learners because of today’s technology is incredibly rewarding as a teacher. Once I had all the technological kinks worked out, it’s been smooth sailing!

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? The scientific research on reading goes back decades, from work psychologists were doing in the 1960s to more recent discoveries by neuroscientists using brain imaging technology. And that’s the best they’re going to do.'” Kelly Butler was alarmed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. More shadiness from Thiel in the campus news section below. Must be legit then.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).