Let’s start here: my “baby” will be graduating high school in about six months. It’s absolutely flown by, and here I am, like most parents, awestruck at how quickly it went. Good news: she’s a pretty awesome human, and there’s a lot to love. Also good news but in some ways unsettling news: her path
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Duolingo for Schools. 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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Who decides what teachers teach? More importantly, who decides what students learn? Cedar Riener’s recent article for EML unpacks some of the implications of academic freedom in the classroom. He cites the AAUP’s statement on academic freedom, which states that “[t]he common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition.” Riener
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To help you keep up to date with your professional reading, we’ve pulled together 14 of our best posts into one free ebook/pdf. These pieces, by 14 different EML authors, are a great starting point for thinking differently about your work as a education leader. To help us grow and continue shifting conversations about education, download, read
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Although I spend a lot of time looking at the past and the present of education technology, I’m just not that good at predicting the future. Back in January 2012, for example, I wrote a New Year’s blog post predicting that Google would cancel its Chromebooks program. I mean, the company does have a horrible
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Hopefully by now, the excesses of the New Year are well behind, and while Southern Hemisphere leaders may be basking in their vacation sun, Northern colleagues are back at work and focused on the year ahead. I wonder if you managed to pass the first day of the New Year without the mandatory discussion of
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The New GED. 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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Happy New Year to all of our readers here in the EML community. We’re looking forward to an awesome 2015, one filled with provocation and, hopefully, action to move schools and classrooms to different, more modern learning environments for all of our kids. To start that work, we’ve assembled 15 questions from 15 different EML
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As 2014 draws to a close, it’s become increasingly apparent that the current system of schooling isn’t really working for our kids, especially when taking into account the changes that we’re experiencing in the way we learn, the way we get educated, and the way we work. Harvard professor and author Richard Ellmore recently described
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A few reflections on the end of the year… When Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon first told me about their plans to launch a new publication that would focus on a different narrative about the future of schools, I was excited. There is such a huge need to tell a different story. I think (particularly
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The song says that this is the most wonderful time of the year. But for teachers, it can be exhausting. The kids are wound up because of the approaching holidays, complete with potential trips, gifts, visits, and events (or, even worse, if they have none of those things to look forward to). There is the
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Normalizing US-Cuba relations. 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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I am a college professor, but I was raised in a family of teachers. My father taught English for many years at my DC Public High School. My mother is a nursery school teacher. My wife has taught English for speakers of other languages and social studies to children of all ages. While my primary
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As the end of the year approaches, it seems worthwhile to look back on some of the achievements of the past twelve months and reflect on what we have learnt. It would be somewhat of an understatement to say that the edtech sector has seen unprecedented levels of investment over the past 12 to 18
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Inspired by the title of Lee Skallerup Bessette’s article last week, Listening and Hearing I’m a faculty developer, so my role often entails conducting assessments of other people’s teaching. This comes sometimes in the form of entering a class and having a confidential discussion with students to get their feedback on a course, and reporting
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