'Grit' Is More Important Than IQ. SmartBlog on Education - Making learning viral - SmartBrief, Inc. SmartBlogs SmartBlogs. This post begins in a place that’s far away from, well, just about everything.
We’re traveling to place called Zuni Pueblo in northern New Mexico. Zuni is miles away from McDonald’s, Wal-Mart and many other corporate flagships that permeate our society. For example, it’s a 45-minute drive down a one-lane road just to find a grocery store. For the love of learning. The passion gap. Photo credits: positiveimperative.com “Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, 1832 I recently spoke at the Dell Innovation in Education Panel at the Texas Association of School Administrators 2013 Conference in Austin.
When we were invited to sum up at the end, I realized that one guest had not been invited to the table: Passion. I was the first to interject this word, saying that “passion should not be the number one thing on the agenda, it IS the agenda.” The #TASA13 hashtag on Twitter, which had been moving moderately, exploded, with several dozen tweets supporting my statement. At any other conference in any other industry, passion is on the lips of nearly every participant, but at some education conferences, you are far more likely to hear the words “assessment,” “standardize,” “common core” and “pedagogy” than you are to hear the word “passion.”
The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.
The report is quite a heavy document so I’ve summarised the techniques below based on the conclusions of the report regarding effectiveness of each technique. Manifesto for education change. (This article is a compilation of tweets – feel free to add your comments and questions and advance the conversation.)
Imagine Learning Manifesto for education change #edchat #education #cpchat The world is changing rapidly. Regrettably, education is not keeping pace with change. We need to re-think education. Toffler said 21st C learning is about learning, unlearning & relearning. The 8 Most Damaging Excuses People Make For Their Unhappiness. Video: Creative Leadership: Invention & Innovation, Chic Thompson. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals. Leadership | In Print 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals.
6 Tips for the Successful Online Teacher. Distance Learning | In Print Page 2 of 2 6 Tips for the Successful Online Teacher For better or worse, fully online instruction can never provide the level of control they crave. Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools. Big Ideas Digital Tools Flickr:Marygrove College Library Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts.
The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education, takes the birds-eye view and encapsulates some of the significant challenges that must still be addressed and offers the following assessment. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals.
Leadership | In Print Page 5 of 7 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals 5.
Locate and Provide Adequate Resources. The cost of technology downtime in the classroom is more than you think. Free online calculator lets educators estimate the price of unreliable classroom A/V systems By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor Read more by Denny Carter Unproductive meeting time accounts for around $37 billion in yearly waste. Talk of the weather, for many in higher education, is the clearest sign that time and money are being wasted while faculty members and students wait for IT staff to hustle to their lecture hall and fix a projector, or computer, or microphone. David Siedell, senior IT director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School , said that like the private sector, colleges can lose hundreds of hours of scheduled work time thanks at least in part to technical difficulties.
The New Platform for Learning. I have to confess my wife and two children think it's pretty funny that I have been invited to talk about technology at a cutting-edge conference for innovators and entrepreneurs.
It's an understatement to say that I grew up in a technologically-challenged household. We didn't even have a TV when I was a kid. Welcome to the Post Textbook World: Ten Elements. A friend asked about Jay Mathew’s post on textbooks.
I thought the rear view mirror critique of a process to pick better textbooks read more like a 1982, not a 2012 discussion – and certainly not the 2015 conversation we should be having. The Poverty Myth Persists. Every time I see a “poverty and education” story I think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says, “The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.”
So, with education. Want a convenient scapegoat for our problems? Poverty. Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students Part II. Wow! I must of hit a nerve with educators when I wrote my first draft of the Education Technology Bill of Rights for Students last month. Powerful new tools in educators' digital arsenal. The Must-Have Guide To Helping Technophobic Educators. The following is the third in a set of 7 ‘ The Future of Education ‘ articles. It is written by Dr. Abir Qasem , an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Director of Academic Computing at Bridgewater College and Tanya Gupta who has worked on technology and economic development.
The blogosphere and the mainstream media is filled with success stories of technology’s successful adoption in education. However, many educators complain that when they try to introduce technological innovation on their campuses, they face obstacles. For example, according to Boston.com , there are many schools that are Internet-free. There are others, such as Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT who travels around the country encouraging colleges to pull back on Internet access.
Utah is working on free online textbooks. This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted. Heavy textbooks weighing down teens' backpacks might soon become a thing of the past in Utah. The State Office of Education has announced that it will develop open textbooks in math, language arts and science — which will be available online, for free — for junior highs and high schools.
Can Khan Move the Bell Curve to the Right? Why Digital Learning will Liberate Teachers. Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students. The following are what I believe are the rights of all student to have with regards to using technology as an educational tool, written as a student to their teacher: How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple. We Live in a Mobile World - Room for Debate. This Time Its Personal. Digital Classrooms: Is The Investment Paying Off? Five Tips for School Leaders. Steve Jobs: 20 Life Lessons. Top 5 Ed Tech predictions for 2012. Earlier this week I wrote about five major technologies that should have had real impacts in education this year, but which never amounted to much.