by edtosavetheworld | Sep 23, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Looking for ways to make your classroom more joyful and efficient? Want to model world-changing practices for your students? Join me in a little challenge: go paperless! Drawing inspiration from yesterday’s march for the climate in New York, I’m giving...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 8, 2014 | News and Trends
First, a few stats: The average U.S. college graduate in 2014 carried $33,000 of debt. Average tuition fees, adjusted for inflation, rose by 20% between 2007 and 2012. 47% of students in America and 28% in Britain who enroll in college do not obtain a diploma. The...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 7, 2014 | Innovation Series
Google, google everywhere, but not an app to sync! Okay couldn’t resist making an Ancient Mariner allusion, but to be honest that’s how it feels sometimes. There’s so much education technology out there, but how do we actually start integrating it in our classroom?...
by edtosavetheworld | Feb 17, 2014 | News and Trends, Stage 3: Critical Thinking
Google is expected to release its latest tech advance to general audiences later this year: the wearable computer. It’s basically a mini android computer mounted on an eyeglass frame, which allows the wearer to project a computer “screen” onto his or...
by edtosavetheworld | Feb 12, 2014 | Stage 2: Active Processing
We started this week with some thoughts about the current data-driven culture of education, and yesterday we were reminded of the importance of tackling student misconceptions head-on. We came away from these posts with two key principles: Data is only useful when it...
