It’s summer, and we’ve just finished this year’s round of library work. In 2018-19, we completed a Digital Literacy Center project and an expansion of the Creativity in a Box work. These were both grant-funded projects for which we wrote
[cross-posted from K12 Open Ed] As many of you know, I’ve spent much of this year working on a project to explore the adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials and to explore business models for the successful and
I believe that we have a unique opportunity at this moment when districts all over the country are looking at new curriculum and assessments. We can either see this as an opportunity to innovate and improve learning…or we can just
Today I had the opportunity to talk about differentiating instruction with a group of educators using mobile technology as a part of ISTE’s Verizon Innovative Learning Schools virtual conference. At the end of the end of this session (with no
This weekend I was a part of a panel presentation at NSBA called “New Opportunities Presented by the Common Core: Deeper Learning, Open Educational Resources, and Increases in Long-Term Student Success.” Common Core and Deeper Learning Among the main points
I have been excited about the potential of the Common Core standards. Fewer standards, deeper coverage, more higher order thinking skills and process orientation, better assessment — it all sounds like an improvement. Yet, as I’ve seen the beginning of
FreeReading is a great site for all kinds of early literacy resources. One of my favorite parts is the decodable reading passages. Unfortunately, to date, these have only been available as pdf files. Pdfs are good for printing, but not
There is a lot of discussion about the new Common Core standards right now. States are cross-walking their current standards to the Common Core and adding their 15%. Districts are frantically trying to figure out how they’ll implement the new
There is a lot of dissatisfaction about the current state of public education in America and as a result, calls for reform. Many are unhappy with the amount and nature of testing and the general direction of industrial era curricula.
There is a flood of stimulus money coming into education this summer, including a substantial amount for ed tech. This is one-time funding that is to be spent quickly, but in a way that yields significant, long-term gains. I can