Tag Archives: Getting Smart

Small learning environments have always been the foundation of formal learning systems. Indigenous groups around the world, early one-room schoolhouses propped up by local communities, and eventually the modern home-school movement have all been demonstrations of effectiveness. While the microschool movement feels new in the media, its foundations are a tale as old as learningContinue reading “Microschool in a Box: Programs Enabling the Microschool Movement”

By: Katie Kimbrell One of my favorite mom friends asks her young school-aged kids every day, “What did you make today?” I love how subtly subversive this question is. Not, “How was school today?” “Were you good today?” or, “How’s [insert school subject] going?” But, “How did you put your ideas out into the worldContinue reading “Why Entrepreneurship Might Save Our Kids—and the Rest of Us.”

In my last piece of this series, I mapped AI’s capabilities to Bloom’s taxonomy. We learned that AI’s splotchy cognitive competencies can help us:  explain the human advantage over AI  depict AI as a cognitive partner identify ways learners might use AI and be duped by AI narrate how AI will elevate our standards inContinue reading “AI is the Cognitive Friend We’ve Always Wanted”

For as much as we talk about the three branches of government, the judiciary branch is often overlooked or, when taught, it’s described hierarchically. Rules and laws exist and citizens are meant to follow them. What if we did more to help students understand that we can shape those rules and laws to design aContinue reading “An Overlooked Pathway: Law and Civic Engagement”

By: Sabrina Baptiste Apprenticeships provide an innovative way for educators to experience real-life challenges and hone their professional skills. Allowing aspiring educators to gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and practice in actual classrooms positively impacts the development of their competency levels and the quality of education they can provide throughout their careers. Simultaneously, apprenticeships address theContinue reading “The Future of Teaching Apprenticeships: Empowering Educators and Transforming Education”

Michigan Virtual, has been working hard to provide a path to the future for students and educators since 1998. As a part of this commitment, they have unveiled recent AI Guidance and implementation suggestions that highlight the vast number of challenges and opportunities facing school leaders when handling technology.  AI Integration Framework Their AI IntegrationContinue reading “One State’s Approach to AI Integration and Rapid Reskilling”

By: Chloe Sanducci School systems across the nation face a common problem – how to use the vast amount of data available to them from various edtech tools to make informed decisions and equip educators with that data promptly. According to a recent LearnPlatform report, school districts accessed an average of 2,591 district edtech toolsContinue reading “Using the Insights of Project Unicorn’s 2023 State of The Sector Report”

Recently, I keynoted at the California City School Superintendents (CCSS) Fall Conference about the future of learning with AI. Even before I got there, these capable leaders were learning about AI from several axes and diverse stakeholders. They were using their previous experiences with social media to forecast what might happen with AI. They wereContinue reading “The Cognitive Dance of AI”

By: Michelle Culver Young people keep telling us that school is boring and irrelevant to their lives and careers, yet schooling has not radically changed for over a century. The pandemic underscored the need to refresh education amidst today’s pace of change and to redesign what, why, how, where and with whom students learn. ButContinue reading “4 Principles for Transforming Education Institutions and Systems From the Inside”

By: Becky Hutchinson and Kareem Farah  Teachers often report feeling anxious, stressed, and eventually burned out from technology. Oftentimes, it’s due to a lack of effective training. More than 50 percent of teachers said their edtech professional development training was a one-time event with little follow-up coaching or mentoring. Behind the data is a patternContinue reading “3 Ways to Reimagine Professional Development in Districts”