Reimagining the 21st-century classroom
Editor’s note: What would the classroom look like if you applied some service design thinking?
Browsing: education
Two conversations
Editor’s note: Provocative post by Nick Shackleton-Jones. How do you talk about the learning in the workplace?
Watering the roots of knowledge through collaborative learning
Editor’s note: A look at what education, especially higher education could look like. The work at Quest University, Canada, looks compelling.
Video: Forty years of learning with the Open University
The first Open University graduates graduated 40 years ago. The BBC marks the occasion with…
Apple pushes hard for education market with iOS 7 improvements
Editor’s note: A look at how Apple’s latest mobile operating system Ios7 is targeting the education market. Thanks to @designedlearnin for sharing.
Innovation and Technology in Education
Editor’s note: Tune into what John Seely Brown has to say about education and learning – it is must-listen-to stuff, especially his thinking on content, skills and dispositions.
Don’t go back to school: how to fuel the internal engine of lifelong learning
Editor’s note: A lot here on education but more generally about learning – the kind of debate and thinking that will impact how business and learning functions operate.
The rise of EdTech
Editor’s note: A mini tour of how technology is changing the way teachers and students operate – includes some of the new tech tools being developed in this sector.
Video of the week: Howard Gardner: Five minds for the future
Howard Gardner, Hobbs professor of cognition and education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, shares…
How do Finnish kids excel without rote learning and standardized testing?
Editor’s note: Thanks to David Smith for sharing this article that looks at the importance of social and collaborative skills in learning versus the current testing knowledge approach to education.
The future of tablets in education: potential versus reality of consuming media
Editor’s note: A four-part series to explore four dimensions of using tablets, such as the iPad, in educational settings.
Massive open online courses: higher education’s digital moment?
Editor’s note: This Universities UK report looks at how MOOCs are, and will continue, to disrupt higher education. A good read for issues aroumnd MOOCs, what students will be experiencing in education and how MOOCs might work in conjunction with, and for, employers.
Education tech vendors launch apps contest
Editor’s note: So why isn’t this happening in the corporate learning technology space? Be interesting to see what apps come out of it.
OECD educationtoday: Learning from other countries’ experiences in education
Editor’s note: A new OECD series of individual Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles does just that: each profile describes how an individual country is responding to key challenges to improve the effectiveness of its education system.
What do kids really learn from education tech?
Editor’s note: In the race to adopt new technology what do we actually know about how new tech is helping children learn?