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"These segments were recorded in Colorado classrooms during the 2008-2009 school year in Aurora, Denver and Colorado Springs District 11. C21L continues to produce videos that encourage support for teachers and administrators who wish to bring 21st Century learning skills into the classroom."
Top News - Child-friendly social networking tools
Privacy and security concerns are among the many barriers holding back the use of social networking tools in schools, new research suggests--but a number of child-friendly applications have emerged. Among these are...
Top News - Six technologies soon to affect education
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Collaborative environments, cloud computing, and "smart" objects are among the technologies that a group of experts believes will have a profound impact on K-12 education within the next five years or sooner.
Technology empowers differentiated instruction
Differentiated instruction (DI) as a strategy that is centered on the belief that students learn in many different ways. They also said DI is a collection of best practices from gifted, traditional, and special education.
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Smith and Throne described differentiated instruction (DI) as a strategy that is centered on the belief that students learn in many different ways. They also said DI is a collection of best practices from gifted, traditional, and special education. "Some educators think it's a new model, but it isn't," said Throne.
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Both presenters agreed that DI is student-centered, offers multiple paths to learning, and is grounded in assessment practices
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Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools
...half of all instruction will take place online within the next 10 years--and schools had better get into the online-learning market or risk losing their students to other providers.
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Disruptive innovations transform products or services into something so simple that anyone can use them, creating what Christensen called "asymmetric competition."
Top News - Big district dumps grade levels -- for starters
...when the elementary and middle school students come back next fall, there won't be any grade levels--or traditional grades, for that matter.
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There was a sense of urgency to attend to what wasn't happening for kids here," says Roberta Selleck, district superintendent, explaining why she decided to go with a drastic approach. "When [we saw] the stats for the whole school district over time, we realized we are disconnecting [from] our kids."
Test-prep services turn to video games
Kaplan, Princeton Review releasing game-based software to help students practice for the SAT.
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