If nothing else, the key thing that both marketers and educators have in common is that they're trying to create a deep, emotional connection between their audience and the message they're trying to g...
This post has been updated on March 4, 2020. Some of us can distinctly recall a charismatic, persuasive or empathetic teacher - someone who cut through our teenage turmoil and managed to teach us some...
You don’t have to be a fortune teller to predict that Educational Technology is the future of our learning and education system. The Edtech boom has led to improved results in student engagement and b...
Many people still feel that the immediacy of face-to-face collaboration is the gold standard in getting teamwork projects done. However, there are a number of high profile examples of digital and onli...
We have spoken before about what defines a good digital citizen, and today we will extrapolate some more on that definition to include some new emerging trends. To recap, digital citizenship encompass...
BYOD — Bring Your Own Device — has gained some momentum in today's education system. From temp teachers to entire school districts, more and more educational staff debate about or seriously consider t...
Last time we began exploring the role of educators within networked learning environments, broadly using a theory by George Siemens called “Connectivism” as our base. 3 Alternative roles of teachers i...
This post has been updated on February 16, 2020. Enabling interaction, collaboration, and social learning online is perhaps the most difficult, and yet most important, part of teaching online. “Beyond...
Makerspaces are a wonderfully interactive, highly creative and increasingly valued part of classrooms in the technology age. There is literally a wealth of inspiration, guidance and ideas on the web f...
The professional development programs offered by most districts can be a somewhat bland, formulaic and often times an irrelevant experience. Collaboration is one of the most valued features of meeting...
TED Talks are awesome. Maybe it’s the variety of topics they cover, the perfectly timed length, the simple setting, or maybe all of these; but either way, I think we can all agree that TED Talks are a...
If you have spent any time in the ed-tech world you will no doubt have realized that there is a swirling cloud of acronyms that attend the subject, from ISTE, CoSN to NMC and P21. A veritable “alphabe...
In my last blog we started discussing the "why" of gamification, with a specific focus on the nature of motivation, lensed through one broadly held theory of motivation called Self-Determination Theor...
Candy Crush, a mobile gaming phenomenon, earns its makers, Swedish-based King Games, big money: $250 million in the company's last declared quarter alone. To date the game has been downloaded an eye-p...
The gap in digital equity must be put under the spotlight if schools are going to be able to redress, and address, the yawning “homework” gap. Only 3% of teachers in high-poverty level schools said th...
We have recently been exploring how cognitive science and learning theory underpins effective digital learning tools such as video-based learning. Today I wanted to explore infographics, why they work...
