NetFamilyNews.orgAs parents, we’re now beginning to accept this, I think: “We live in a world that is re-creating itself one life and one digital connection at a time … a landscape for which there are no maps,” as Krista Tippett said it in her introduction to a timely radio conversation with Seth Godin on American [...]
Guest post by Marianne Malmstrom At the Elisabeth Morrow School, we have been on a journey to help our students develop the essential skills of creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and citizenship. We turned to virtual worlds and MOGs because these are the same skills many young gamers practice through immersive play. Initially, we used [...]
Monday’s post was about two surveys of US teachers about what technology’s doing to students’ academic performance. Today, a guest commentary from Marianne Malmstrom, who teaches grades 3-8 at the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, N.J., after I asked her what she thought of the research and the New York Times’s coverage: “At least the [...]
The other day, two school librarians posted an insightful article about two students – Jessica, just starting her junior of high school, and Michael, who just graduated – who stand on opposite sides of the “participation gap,” Prof. Henry Jenkins’s term for the digital divide of participatory media and today’s networked world. They describe what [...]
Cameron Herold on how to support and nurture young entrepreneurs in his TED Talk
Oregon middle school increases student engagement using social media school-wide.
The US states’ report card for innovation in education wasn’t all bad news: For example, “Massachusetts, Colorado, and Rhode Island got gold stars for their policies to promote extended learning time in schools.” But all of those states got Ds for tech innovation. The report – “Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational [...]
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