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3 Ways to Achieve a Successful School Improvement Initiative

EdTech Magazine

Schools that used the ADDIE model before integrating ed tech reported vast improvement. In Illinois, Cicero Public School District 99 was able to utilize E-rate funding to provide individual Chromebooks to students as part of its one-to-one education program. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Wikipedia’s openness leads a number of students to categorize it as a blog. I sort of say Wikipedia is a blog because other people could post things on there. Look for editorial ratings. For many of these intermediate students, Wikipedia is simply bad. And there’s confusion over both container and information type.

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Dialogue, debate and destinations

Learning with 'e's

Some notable discussions took place, some of which I can briefly summarise here on this blog. Co-incidentally, in their packs, each delegate received a copy of Panlibus Magazine , containing an article written by me entitled 'Moving away from books'. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. ” And, I also (unfortunately) needed to update my post on the W-2 phishing scam victimizing school districts across the country.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“The Trump Administration Has Revoked A Federal Directive On Campus Rape ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” And via the Udacity blog : “ Self-Driving Cars for Everyone! Via The New York Times : “ Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 (National) Education Politics. ” EVERYONE!

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

In its glossary, Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy defines news literacy as: The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet. Our kids need new types of filters. Post-truth or truthiness.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the teacher prep law from The Hechinger Report. ” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. .” More via Inside Higher Ed.