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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Future Ready Librarians ® initiative has already changed the conversation about ways in which teacher librarians lead, teach, and support innovative learning in schools. The Future Ready Librarians initiative aligns school libraries and librarians with strategic work through the Future Ready Librarians Framework.

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Q Academy Ventures into Online Learning for Kids

eSchool News

British Columbia-based Q Academy, a pioneer in tech-focused education, taps into online learning with the soft-launching of Q Academy Kids (QA Kids), a coding and design platform for young people. From the design to the learning experience, its courses are specifically suited to the needs of each learner. About Q Academy.

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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses has a free micro-course – Launching Online Learning. Now is the time we all need to educate ourselves on effective online teaching and I recommend this course as a great place to start. Register for this free micro-course. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. About Thomas C.

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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

It wasn’t only a means of continuing to help students progress academically but to show them compassion, boosting their confidence in themselves and the future. Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive.

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How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform

Neo LMS

What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. As its name suggests, this type of learning focuses on individual competency. Competency-based learning is easier to implement when you have the right tools.

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Future Ready Schools® Releases New Blended Learning Guide for Districts

techlearning

In conjunction with the seventh annual Digital Learning Day , Future Ready Schools (FRS), an initiative of the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed), released a new guide for school districts interested in using “blended learning” to support their approach to instruction.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 030 – Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School

Dangerously Irrelevant

I especially appreciated hearing about the challenges of implementing robust, student-driven, inquiry-based learning during this time.Your school is a special place. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.