AltSchool’s $100 million. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long […]
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One of my favorite thinker-writer-authors observing and reporting on the larger shifts around learning in the world right now is John Seely Brown. Without question, A New Culture of Learning is a must read for anyone interested in building a modern context for thinking about and discussing change in schools at the systems level. Where
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Corinthian Closure. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long run).
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Some interesting news on the credentialing front of late. As more and more employers (and others) move beyond the traditional degree as the sole marker of expertise or ability, and as the potential for informal, self-organized, powerful learning continues to explode, the ways in which people are beginning to accrue and communicate various skills and
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“Learning is not a counting noun,” says Dave Cormier, “so what should we count?” His question – a writing prompt, if you will – comes from Week 2 of his latest MOOC on “Rhizomatic Learning.” It’s an incredibly provocative question as I think it recognizes that we cannot really count learning and that, at the
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I liken our dominant educational structures as the offspring of a shotgun wedding between industrialists who needed literate workers to operate their machinery, and progressives who wanted to lift up the common person from poverty and drudgery. It wasn’t an easy marriage, and the children are a tad dysfunctional now. The union was never able
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MOOCs for Credit. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long
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To me, some of the most fascinating questions within the larger context of modern learning center on what the future holds in terms of work. (It’s one of the reasons I’m so pleased that Harold Jarche will be a regular contributor to EML moving forward.) While that future is certainly unpredictable, it’s hard to argue
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Let’s start with a simple truth: If I had to choose between spending an hour in a school-wide professional development session covering a mandated concept being rolled out to our entire staff or spending an hour in my classroom learning on my own, I’d choose to learn on my own every time. I love the
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EU versus Google. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long
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Earlier this year, an article “written by an actual teen” made the rounds on social media. The article promised “A Teenager’s View of Social Media,” and the author’s pronouncements were taken as gospel: “Facebook is dead to us.” “Instagram is by far the most used social media outlet for my age group.” “To be honest,
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As we close in on our first anniversary here at EML, we thought it might be appropriate to look back to where we started. Here’s the worldview we articulated in April 2014. What we wrote then still holds true now. We live in a moment of unprecedented change, and our conceptions of schooling and education
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LinkedIn Buys Lynda.com. Each week, Educating Modern Learners picks one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and helps put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the long
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To all of our Australian friends, we’re happy to announce a series of four May workshops across the country for school leaders, teachers, and decision makers sponsored by ModernLearners.com and Solution Tree, AU. To sign up, print and fax this pdf to the number listed. Please spread the word, and we’d love to see you
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It’s a well-known fact that there are far fewer women in science and technology careers than men. Just 12 percent of those earning computer science degrees are women. And tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Apple have admitted that only one-fifth of their technical employees are female. Conventional wisdom was once that women are
