“Personalized learning” is rapidly gaining popularity in the United States. In our blog we cast a critical eye on this specific use of technology in education. Cutting to the chase — and answering the question in the blog’s title — no.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 12/04/14
A report on LAUSD’s launch of a new student information system offers essential lessons in what not to do.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 11/20/14
In this second installment of our “Learnings from Singapore” blog post mini-series, we focus on the critically important role that “Ivory Tower” university researchers can play in improving classroom practice.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 11/04/14
In this week’s blog, we reflect on our 2010 prediction: By 2015 "every student in every grade in every school in the U.S. will be a using a mobile computing device, 24/7." Oops. We revise that prediction slightly and add in predictions about the Trinity of Educational Technology: hardware, software, and network.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 10/27/14
With all the facts in the world constantly at their fingertips, today’s students need skills that they can learn best from … games?
- By Christopher Piehler
- 10/22/14
In this dialogue, which is the second part of their "Learnings From Singapore" series, Cathie Norris and Elliot Soloway discuss how mobile learning supports inquiry pedagogy, and how test scores are not necessarily a reflection of learning.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 10/16/14
Students have definite opinions about what they want from education and from technology in education. In this week's blog post we review two recent surveys of students and discuss their "requests" to include more mobile technology and more coding instruction in their lessons.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 10/14/14
Michael F. Ruffini, a professor of educational technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, provides an explanation of the flipped classroom and its alternative, which offers the best of the flipped class and traditional face-to-face instruction, the face/flip.
- By Michael F. Ruffini
- 09/03/14
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. Okay, instead of writing a diatribe on blended learning, in this week’s blog we will let four pictures from blended learning classrooms "speak for themselves."
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 10/06/14
While sales to the general public of 10 inch-screened tablets (e.g., iPads) are dropping quickly, K-12 schools will continue to buy them. The challenge, then, is how to use these devices to support inquiry – 24/7, all-the-time, everywhere learning?
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 10/01/14