My Island View

JULY 5, 2017

I have always found it challenging to be provocative in promoting change in education in a blog post, while remaining positive in tone. That overriding positive tone however is one constant in Edutopia posts that engenders loyalty, trust and a reliance from about a million followers who want to know more about education.

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Edcamps Education Maker Movement Digital Citizenship 66

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

Image credit: https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/makerspace.jpg?w=640 Her vision and subsequent plan resulted in a collaborative learning space open to all students where they could come to tinker, invent, create, and make to learn. There is a great deal of content out there about maker education.

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Libraries Elementary Course Collaborative Learning 150

MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Technology Maker Movement Trends Khan Academy 28