MIT Connected Learning Summit
The Connected Learning Summit is a conference that aims to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. This conference has a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation. The event will bring together leading researchers, educators and developers. The program includes… Read More ›
Using Cooperative Learning to Increase Engagement and Understanding in Mathematics
Do you ever feel that your students aren’t engaged enough in the content you are currently teaching? As if the material is going right over their heads? That you’re trying your best to make your material is relevant, interactive and fun, but it still doesn’t seem to click? I, like many other math educators, have… Read More ›
Youth Leading Youth and Transforming Education
GripTape is an organization that lets go. We let go of the common notion that young people are only capable of certain things. We let go of the fear that young people may not care. Working with an organization that has so much faith in young people, such as myself, has given me so much… Read More ›
Learning Strategies as Metacognitive Factors: A Critical Review
This report provides an introduction to learning strategies. In many student-centered classrooms the use of “learning strategies” to support student growth and learning is replacing the practice of teaching to different “learning styles”. This report looks at metacognitive learning strategies, self-regulatory strategies, and task-oriented techniques. It discusses how to develop these in the classroom. It… Read More ›
Case Study: Lindsay High School Transforms Learning for English Language Learners with Personalized, Competency-Based Education in California
This article features Lindsay High School, which implemented a competency-based education model that focuses on advancing student mastery and student agency. In addition, this resource contains the links to a series of blogs that highlight different promising practices for teaching and learning for ELLs. Each case study addresses core principles for next-generation learning for ELL… Read More ›
The 5th (C) of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational Thinking (Not Coding)
This article was originally posted in EdSurge on February 25, 2018. For better or worse, computing is pervasive, changing how and where people work, collaborate, communicate, shop, eat, travel, learn and quite simply, live. From the arts to sciences and politics, no field has been untouched. The last decade has also seen the rise of disciplines… Read More ›
Envisioning the Graduate of the Future
This course was developed by MIT with support from the XQ Institute, to help school communities rethink what a high school graduate will need to know and be able to do. The course will explore how to design a graduate profile, the artifact that communicates these ideas. Making explicit the capabilities, knowledge, and attitudes graduates need and… Read More ›
Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems
In this CompetencyWorks report, authors Chris Sturgis and Katherine Casey present logic models that are intended to help researchers and practitioners understand the critical components of competency-based education at multiple levels of practice. Logic models are tools used to conceptualize organizations, programs or strategies to bring about change and to support the evaluation of effectiveness.… Read More ›
Student Goal Setting: An Evidence-Based Practice
The Midwest Comprehensive Center at American Institutes for Research, with the help of What Works Clearinghouse House reviewers, has released a new resource on student goal setting to support state departments of education who are interested in promoting evidence-based personalized and deeper learning strategies by districts/schools in their states. The act of goal setting is a… Read More ›
Thinking About Surveying Students and Stakeholders?
In this webinar, YouthTruth will share interactive methods to get student and stakeholder feedback. Educators have a wealth of academic data, but too often lack data on the important less-tangible aspects of the school experience such as engagement, rigor, and school culture. This webinar aims to help provide instructional and climate indicators that are critical levers… Read More ›
Serious Play Conference
The Serious Play Conference, now in its 8th year, is a leadership conference for professionals who embrace the idea that games can revolutionize learning. Speakers, who come from all parts of the globe, share their experience creating or using games in the corporation, classroom, healthcare institution, government and military and offer tips on how to… Read More ›
New Tech Network Conference
The New Tech Network annual conference will take place in St. Louis, MO. This conference will feature unique networking techniques such as Braindate, where participants can interact with attendants who have the same interests through a digital platform. This conference will feature various keynotes, special events, and sessions dedicated to transforming teaching and learning. Host… Read More ›