How do you measure success in a 21st century classroom?
Some may think computers, SmartBoards, Clickers, iPads, or iPods — but I beg to differ.
As a former business teacher, I am a self-proclaimed advocate of current technological devices as excellent tools for student engagement. But as I explored the classrooms of University Park Campus, I was quickly reminded that learning ...
Why are teachers around the country “flipping”?
For a non-educator, flipping a classroom might sound like nonsense. For some educators, it sounds even more nonsensical. Let’s look at the basics of what flipping the classroom is all about and how a teacher could start flipping their own classroom.
Flipping a classroom simply means instead of using class ...
Two of the most powerful impacts of 1:1 technology can never be measured on any standardized test. As a result of having constant access to a computing device in school, students are furthering their 21st century learning skills and, in increasing numbers, are expanding their college and career goals. Let’s examine each of these in turn.
21st Century Learning Skills
A ...
“When competing in a global economy, educating our next generation
is the capital creation of the information economy.”
-Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat
Wow! You can often judge a meeting or event by the energy you have when you leave it, and last week I left the New Carolina New School Project’s (NCNSP) Vision 2015 Technology Forum excited ...
Many things have changed in the innovative classroom, but one thing that has held fast for years is the textbook. Its use among teachers varies from mere resource to cornerstone of foundation yet it has remained ever-present.
Then last month Apple announced that it, along with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson, would reinvent the ...