Employers look for aptitudes, but schools are still judged by academic achievement. Could a 'skills passport' secure more airtime for non-cognitive competencies?
The challenge for educators is not to limit how our teachers teach, but to focus on the foundational skills and provide a clear and concrete formula for how different technological devices and applications will enhance these skills in order to give a learner the ability to create a product that will change the world.
"Standards gaps" exist where digital resources are unavailable or do not meet the needs of teachers, according to a report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Young children who play noneducational games on touch-screen devices may present lower scores in speech development benchmarks, according to a recent study.
It is important for students to have an authentic audience for their work, including audiences outside of school, writes Derek Luebbe, a high-school principal at the American International School of Budapest.
Communication is essential to the engineering field, but it's missing in many science, technology, engineering and math classrooms, education consultant and blogger Anne Jolly writes.