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Mean girls aren't just confined to the silver screen. Like the toxic ladies in the "Mean Girls" movie, real-life mean girls manipulate, take advantage and put you down.
I recently partook in a discussion among some fellow community managers on the best ways to learn about the industry and how to train its future generations.
Though parents around the world have the same goals, American parents like me (despite our very best intentions) have gotten it all backwards.
It’s pretty difficult to get someone to accurately self-assess, no matter what the circumstances. Too often we’re concerned with what someone else will think of our assessment, and our confidence l...
Via Buffy J. Hamilton
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud.
After trying out a co-teaching model with her school's reading specialist, a language arts teacher offers some lessons learned from the collaboration.
Via Mel Riddile, Linda Dougherty
If you run a classroom, school, district, or country, you need to know how to properly integrate technology in education. This should help.
Via Kathleen Cercone, Peter Mellow
The latest results of the student survey developed by the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations (QISA) and administered by Pearson Foundation show a disconnect between teaching and learning.
Via Grant Montgomery
Updated: University deans call for change.
Located in Stockholm, Sweden, this amazing school is from the Swedish Free School Organization, Vittra. Instead of a classic classroom setup with desks and chairs, a giant iceberg with a cinema, a platform and room for relaxation and recreation now forms the setting of many different types of learning situations.
Via Dr. Gordon Dahlby
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More doctors are growing concerned about the effects of childhood poverty in an age when income inequality is increasing and social mobility is declining.
Via Buffy J. Hamilton
Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.
Reading for pleasure at the age of 15 is a strong factor in determining future social mobility. Indeed, it has been revealed as the most important indicator of the future success of the child. That was the startling finding of research carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on education and reading, and their role in promoting social mobility. It highlights why getting teenagers to read for pleasure is more than a sepia-tinted ambition for frustrated parents. It is a fundamental social issue.
Via Karen Bonanno
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect...
A Flow Chart that Describes SAMR
Sweden. Australia. New Zealand. The UK. Germany. Arizona. Wisconsin. Maryland. Lots of people from New Jersey. And me, the only one from Massachusetts. About 70 educators from all over the world ar...
Via Anu Ojaranta, Karen Bonanno
Darling-Hammond: The reform impulse that gave rise to construction of new learning standards and assessments will only work if we invest in the capacity of educators to work together effectively.
Via Dr. Gordon Dahlby
Slides from an invited speech given to the Technology in Higher Education Conference, National Convention Centre, Doha, Qatar. 16 April, 2013.
Via Peter Mellow
It has been suggested that when we know our philosophy of teaching and technology we then have the ability to articulate not only what we are doing as...
Via Susan Bainbridge
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