Education 2.0 & 3.0

By Sarah Kellett

From the bottom of the sea to the moon and beyond, Google Expeditions enable us to take students virtually anywhere with just a mobile device.

By John S. Thomas

Across the country, educators and school districts are finding the best ways to use classroom design to improve technology integration and learning.

Robert Dillon

It’s easy to focus on what we teach and how we teach, but where we teach is often overlooked.We need to prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist and for a world that is rapidly evolving. Whil…

Michele Molnar

BY MATTHEW LYNCH

As a follow-up to our 9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning we developed in 2009, we have developed an updated framework, The Inside-Out Learning Model.

The goal of the model is simple enough–not pure academic proficiency, but instead authentic self-knowledge, diverse local and global interdependence, adaptive critical thinking, and adaptive media literacy.

By design this model emphasizes the role of play, diverse digital and physical media, and a designed interdependence between communities and schools.

by Education Dive

By Katrina Schwartz

By Emily Liebtag

Time for an update. The last time I wrote about our co-design project, I let you know that we’re pursuing five exciting ideas, as chosen by you. Since then, we’ve been working with experts and those on the ground to gather research and draw conclusions, and generally work out where to take the projects from here.

Here's what the last year of teaching has taught one district about selecting the right technology for our online, offline and hybrid classrooms. 

By: Andrew Miller - Middle school teachers at Singapore American School share what they have learned as they have transitioned to flexible spaces and seating as part of their work towards personalized learning with flexible learning environments.

Tom Vander Ark
Contributor

When thinking about designing a new learning space, or making updates, changes or tweaks to an existing one, most educators pick up a catalog or start a pinterest board and their minds begin swimming through flexible seating options and fun shaped tables and desks. This approach will get you some new cool furniture, but will …

There is a growing body of research that supports what we all know intuitively—design matters. Students are affected by their learning spaces. Despite the

Building a self-organizing classroom means less hassle dealing with organization and more focus on powerful learning. Here are 5 ways to do it.