Instead of banning students' technology devices from the classroom, schools need to teach students how to use those devices for learning, principal Peter DeWitt writes in this blog post.
Regeringen og Enhedslisten ønsker at slå folkeskolefagene fysik, kemi, biologi og geografi sammen til en eksamen. Det skal hjælpe eleverne med at se sammenhængen i fagene, siger undervisningsministeren.
For many schools across the country, today marks the first day of a new year. In addition to thinking about tools that help boost educators’ teaching practice, this moment might be a good time to pull back and think about some big-picture ideals, too. Here are a few to consider.
Several small education-technology companies are beginning to make inroads into U.S. classrooms, as teachers become more tech-savvy and technology becomes more seamlessly integrated into the curriculum.
Some New York City school principals are hoping to improve teacher retention by sending promising teachers to a leadership program held by the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education.
This was written by Roger C. Schank, a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence theorist, and education reformer. He has taught at Stanford and Yale universities and is the John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology, and Education at Northwestern University. The former head of the Institute for the Learning Sciences, he is the author of…
I en intervju i tidningen Sunnuntaisuomalainen säger undervisningsminister Jukka Gustafsson (SDP) att kvarsittning kunde ersättas med arbetstjänst. Dessutom lovar Gustafsson förbereda en ändring i undervisningslagstifningen för att ge lärarna mer rättigheter för att utöva disciplin.
Professors occasionally get lampooned as luddites responsible for the famously slow pace of change in higher education. But in truth the majority of professors are excited about various technology-driven trends in higher education, like the growth of e-textbooks and digital library collections, and the increasingly popular idea of “flipping the classroom.”