Digital Learning
Modeling and Building 21st Century Skills for School Leaders
For school leaders who are looking to move towards digital learning for all students, the first step must be for you to be a model of that change. With that in mind, Jonathan Costa, author of Digital Learning for All, Now joins us to talk about the six essential 21st century skills. Continue
One-to-One On a Budget: Moving From Print to Digital
Technology expert Jonathan Costa, the director of school and program services for a regional education service center in Litchfield, CT joins us once again this month. In this segment, he explains that getting equipment into schools is really just the … Continue
The School Leader’s Guide To One-to-One On a Budget
Technology expert Jonathan Costa, the director of school and program services for a regional education service center in Litchfield, CT discusses transitioning from a world of print to one-to-one digital learning and explains not only why schools need to make … Continue
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
In this segment, Bryan Hassel, co-author of the recent report, “Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction,” provides us with a look at what teaching will increasingly look like as digital tools become more commonplace and why teacher effectiveness in … Continue
Prioritizing Digital Fluency For Students and Teachers
In this month’s digital learning segment, we talk with Stephanie Sandifer, an educational technology expert and author of the bestselling book, Wikis for School Leaders. Continue
Developing Effective Internet Safety Education
Starting in July 2012, schools that receive E-Rate and other technology funds from the federal government must certify that they not only provide instruction in Internet safety but have an Internet safety policy. Nancy Willard, one of the country’s foremost … Continue
Six Reasons Why Ed Leaders Should Encourage Kids To Bring Their Own Devices to School
Many technology experts are urging schools across the country to allow students to bring their own digital devices to school and use them in the classroom. A growing number of schools are slowing warming to the idea and are having … Continue
Blended Learning: Disrupting the Traditional Classroom
Blended learning — where students take online courses, but also learn in an adult-supervised school environment for at least part of the time — is growing rapidly. Heather Staker, a Senior Research Fellow at the Innosight Institute and the author … Continue
Flipping the Classroom
Salman Khan is turning the teaching of math upside down with his concept of simple video explanations, which kids watch and learn from outside of class, and homework and problem solving, which they do in class. Khan’s methods are being … Continue
10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning
Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and head of the Alliance for Excellent Education, is behind a major new initiative to make digital learning a significant part of all school curricula. In this update, Wise outlines the "10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning" that he believes all schools must incorporate if we are to better prepare students, while addressing budgetary and teacher shortfalls. Continue
An Update On 21st Century Learning Skills
While schools talk about the importance of preparing students for the 21st century, technology expert Ian Jukes explains that we are still not equipping our students to be able to function in that world. In this update, he reiterates the five key 21st century skills that our schools must teach students if they are to be successful. Continue
Responding to Cyberbullying and Sexting Outside of School
Nancy Willard, Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use, answers the legal question that many administrators ask about off-campus incidents of cyberbullying and inappropriate texting: what is the extent of my authority and how do I respond? Continue
21st Century Skills: The Role of Technology in Education Today
An interview with Ian Jukes and Lee Crockett
Because of their exposure to digital technology, kids today really are different. “This generation has developed what we like to call a ‘digital cultural brain,’ a brain that has been profoundly, and I do mean profoundly, affected by the digital culture into which they were born,” says technology expert Ian Jukes. In this interview, he and colleague Lee Crockett call for a change in the way schools think about engaging students and using technology. Continue
21st Century Skills and the Global Achievement Gap
Education must fast forward to the 21st century and quickly, says Tony Wagner, if our students want to be able to compete in a globalized, digital world. Wagner is the author of the bestseller, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It, and his message is urgent: our education system must adapt or risk becoming obsolete. Continue
Teaching the Digital Generation
An interview with Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Frank Kelly
The old industrial high school, which was teacher-centric and designed for mass instruction, served earlier generations well. But students today are fundamentally different from their predecessors because digital technology has changed them in profound ways. In this interview, Ian Jukes, Ted McCain and Frank Kelly, co-authors of Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie Cutter Schools, explain how we must re-imagine our schools to best serve the students of the 21st century. Continue