A drive to make data «interoperable» could unlock the promise of
classroom innovation in the digital age
With the support of a $ 1 million grant from the Microsoft Corporation, the Fellowship has served 54 Fellows in the first three cohorts, offering them opportunities to pilot personalized learning models in their schools and fostering
classroom innovation in dozens of Washington, D.C. schools.
So... back to that homework assignment, which was once again: What will be the most significant
classroom innovation in the next 10 years?
Not exact matches
But it's not just
in the
classroom that
innovation is changing the way people learn.
This year, the
innovation battle will be won and lost
in the K - 12
classroom.
We've been putting a lot of emphasis on
innovation and entrepreneurship — that's not something you can teach very effectively
in the traditional
classroom.
No wonder the country is descending into international laughing stock and jobs created through scientific
innovation are steadily shifting offshore when even those charged with educating your children act as if creationism has any validity
in the science
classroom.
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innovation, our vision for this program is to have a head coach who serves as a CEO and is the central leader with a collaborative staff around him that will elevate the performance of players and coaches on the field,
in the classroom and in our communit
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Shane Farritor of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, emphasizes the importance of providing makerspaces for students
in order to promote
innovation outside of the
classroom setting and offers a blueprint that will give faculty and administrators a starting place for considering the key characteristics their makerspaces should have to promote
innovation output.
Austin, TX About Blog To promote
innovation in education through collaboration and connection to the most effective
classroom resources.
Mark consults for Stanford's Graduate School of Education and the American School
in Japan to help bring more design and
innovation into
classrooms worldwide.
We begin with a prominent question for many school and district leaders: What conditions must we create
in order to promote the scaling of identified
classroom innovations?
Classrooms following the entrepreneurial mindset of a startup company exist
in a constant state of beta — always testing and retesting through the process of iteration,
innovation, and improvement.
More broadly, there's the suggestion that the time is ripe for
innovation in the
classroom.
Where possible, schools should be looking to embrace such
innovations in the
classroom to reengage their pupils.
As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling
in the near term are sustaining
innovations,
in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional
classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift
in the learning model from the student's perspective.
The Learning
Innovation Hub program, or iHub, allows digital providers to test and get feedback on their products from
classroom teachers,
in a process meant to nurture improvement and
innovation.
The Ed School's Usable Knowledge,
in partnership with Digital Promise, a nonprofit authorized by Congress to spark
innovation in education, launched a new series called Ask a Researcher that offers guidance to
classroom dilemmas
in the areas of literacy, math, and English language learning.
In 2013, Bec was awarded the Victorian Department of Education and Training Education Excellence Award for Primary Teacher of the Year for outstanding contributions and dedication towards leading
classroom innovation.
It is a matter of looking at sustainable engagement and motivation with a new perspective because engaging
in education online has similarities to the training area
in a business organization or the brick and mortar school
classroom, but the online environment is not the same
in that the boundaries of collaboration,
innovation, and creativity are global and immediate
in nature.
Disrupting our K — 12 schools or our public school districts is impossible today because there is no nonconsumption of education
in this country, but helping our schools use disruptive
innovation to disrupt the
classroom — the way they arrange teaching and learning — is possible.
Senator Alexander declared, «We've got a law that will govern the federal role
in K — 12 education for ten or twenty years» and «unleash a whole flood of
innovation and ingenuity,
classroom by
classroom, state by state, that will benefit children.»
But edtech
innovations hold real promise for improving student learning outcomes if education leaders use them to redesign
classroom and school models
in ways that transform teachers» instructional practices.
Thanks to Grockit for hosting this event and helping bring the culture of
innovation in the
classroom.
It's also possible that with extra money available
in the stimulus package for
innovation, states or large school districts will figure out better ways to evaluate teachers that fairly reflects what they do
in the
classroom.
What the theory of disruptive
innovation says is that online learning —
in its many forms — will disrupt the traditional
classroom over the long haul
in secondary schools.
Richard Wells (@iPadWells) looks at how online
innovations like Quad - blogging (that hooks up students
in multiple
classrooms, who then write for each other) can help improve students» desire to learn and their writing skills.
And just maybe it'll help inspire you to emphasize
innovation, teamwork, collaboration, entrepreneurship and the exploration of curiosities
in the
classroom.
Last spring, HILT held its first Learning Spaces Week, a four - day convening on
innovations in classroom design at Harvard.
If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to scale
innovations like the flipped
classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of blended learning that escape the factory - model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be well deserved.
It's how far we still must go to unleash
innovation and creativity
in our
classrooms, to break a culture of teaching to the test, and to equip our students for success
in an economy fueled by inquiry and imagination.
This includes an increased focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and
innovation in the
classroom.
This is why I am so encouraged by the vibrancy and growing spirit of
innovation that comes with charter schools, new technology
in the
classroom and the demand for higher achievement.
These approaches suggest
innovations that aren't being batted about by opinion - makers yet, such as redesigning jobs to concentrate top teachers» time on instruction, putting star teachers fully
in charge of multiple
classrooms, and using technology
in combination with
in - person reach extension (for one example, learn about Rocketship Education here).
But newer
innovations in virtual
classrooms are now easily accessible as well as readily available.
Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results
in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's
in the best interest of students and
innovation in the
classroom.
Unions have played a largely peripheral role
in either endorsing (some union chapters have gotten district approval for schools
in which new technologies are central) or opposing
classroom technological
innovations (cybercharter schools, for example).
Will the
innovation help me solve problems that I face
in the
classroom?
The law had made Nevada ineligible to apply for President Obama's «race to the top» education grants, designed to spur
innovation in the
classroom.
Ayub Mohamud: We can make teaching a more prestigious career by investing time and energy on the creativity and
innovation of teachers and students
in their
classrooms and communities.
Recent research by McKinsey on what makes successful school systems has shown that
innovation makes a large impact on moving schools from «good» to «great» — so the question is, will schools remember the value of ICT
in the
classroom — we certainly hope so?
Low cost
innovations in classrooms and schools: a design guide for users.
Audience: Ideal for educators who want a bird's - eye view of the leading edges of change
in education, plus practical tips for how to bring some of these
innovations to your
classroom.
The challenge The challenge offered by the results of this survey focuses on the continuation of
innovation in ICT, both
in product development and
in classroom practice.
Coverage of trends
in K - 12
innovation and efforts to put these new ideas and approaches into practice
in schools, districts, and
classrooms is supported
in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York at www.carnegie.org.
No Child Left Behind had brought more equity to the
classroom, but the state's top educators felt that the pressure to optimize test scores had led to sacrifices
in creativity and
innovation.
Participants will: • Receive an overview of the Google for Education solution, • Hear the story of CCSD 59 from the perspective of both students and educator, and • Learn how Google tools are being used
in the
classroom and how this is improving student learning, collaboration, and
innovation.
Surely, technology is going to play a greater role
in the
classroom as we integrate STEM into a more uni ed curriculum, but what this actually looks like is going to be defined largely by the
innovations of today's critical thinkers.
This report details findings from the survey, which provides critical insights into the role of
innovation and change
in the
classroom.
Amongst other technological
innovations, VR
in education has proved to be one of the most effective learning tools within the
classroom.