Tag: Education Technology
Bring Out the Game Film!
May 25th, 2012
A while back, I watched one of the sessions coach John Gruden conducted with then NFL quarterback prospect Andrew Luck in which they dissected game film and I got to thinking: Why don’t we do this as educators? For sports, this makes sense - we all know that football and basketball are games of inches where teams practice more than they play in...VIEW ARTICLE
The Flattening World of Education: The launch of edX
May 4th, 2012
Thomas Friedman famously opined that the world is flattening as providers of commerce gain equal footing in an increasingly globalized world. Leaving aside the positive and negative consequences of this reality, it appears that these forces are slowly moving into the education sphere, as evidenced by the recent launch of edX. The effort...VIEW ARTICLE
Moving Past the Bubble Sheet
April 19th, 2012
As educators, we've all been there - anxious to go home after a long days work only to look over at the students' recently submitted essays ready to be looked over with our critical eye. Suddenly, you find yourself scrambling to calculate how many minutes it will take you to go through each essay - only to realize that you'll have to TiVo your...VIEW ARTICLE
Partnership Zone Plans : More of the Same
January 25th, 2012
The Delaware Department of Education approved plans at five of six second round Partnership Zone schools (Laurel Middle’s plan is due in February), which will wrap up the state’s Race to the Top commitment to turnaround ten persistently low-performing schools. Although the plans represent significant effort on the part of all stakeholders to...VIEW ARTICLE