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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. We learned this lesson early on when we had employees with dogs barking in the background, kids running up to them to sit on their laps, and, yes, even a parrot on screen. Meeting your peers on a periodic basis can be an invaluable exercise.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 29th, 2014 Teaching is not just a job. Dr. Ralph Tyler The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. Register here.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here’s what we discussed… Day 1: The Big Picture: Start With the Why – How is the innovation decade going to change learning of, by, and for young people? thank you Pam Moran for this question!) – Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

Marketplace K-12

It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. It allows K-12 teachers to assign playlists of learning activities to their students, and allows students to direct their own instruction. Parents can also access it for use by their children.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

Digital Promise

These learning scenarios support the development of skills such as critical thinking, inquiry and research, creativity, problem solving, designing and collaboration. They help students develop a sense of agency, the ability to harness technology, and support learning lifelong and lifewide.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

EdTechTeam

Cross-posted from Digital Promise Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching JULY 26, 2017 | BY KAREN CATOR In 2014, I wrote – The problem with education in America is not the lack of excellence. With generous support from Google , we are launching the Dynamic Learning Project, a pilot with 50 U.S.