Vander Ark on Innovation
This blog was written by Tom Vander Ark (@tvanderark), an education advocate, adviser, and author of Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is Founder and Executive Editor of Getting Smart and a partner in Learn Capital. This blog is no longer being updated.
Teaching
Opinion
Teachers Deserve Project-Based Preparation
In our latest publication, we discuss how reorganizing preparation and development around PBL will help to ensure that teachers are better prepared to help students prepare for future success.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
3 Reasons To Expect the Unexpected...and What To Do About It.
There are three primary reasons we will continue to experience more unexpected events like those we've witnessed recently. Here's how we can better prepare today's students for these future black swan events.
School & District Management
Opinion
Preparing Education Leaders for Success
With the many different demands on today's education leaders, it's important for us to prepare them for success. Here are some ways we could help ensure edleaders are ready to lead schools.
School & District Management
Opinion
EdReform Revived
At a recent Center for Education Reform forum, a group of education advocates, researchers and policymakers held a discussion around reviving EdReform that resulted in these 10 takeaways.
Education
Opinion
Novelty & Complexity: 13 Youth Onramps
Here are 13 "onramps" to increase today's student exposure to novelty and complexity in order to build the mental muscles they'll need to thrive in tomorrow's automated economy.
Education
Opinion
Smart Machines Will Eat Jobs--Except Where Smart People Create Them
Cities and schools need leaders willing to #AskAboutAI--to launch local conversations that result in proactive plans to build infrastructure and skills that result in employment gains, privacy protection, and social benefit.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Reengineering HigherEd
Twenty miles west of Boston is a small engineering school that just might be the most important experiment in higher education in the country. Olin College was designed to be different.
Education
Opinion
Living With Smart Machines
In this edition of our #AskAboutAI series we discuss how, for billions of people, life at home will improve rapidly over the next decade as machine intelligence augments human intelligence.
Education
Opinion
Pennsylvania Charter Emphasizes Liberal Arts for Success
Renaissance Academy is a K-12 public charter school in Phoenixville, Pa. that focuses on liberal arts to prepare students for college.
School & District Management
Opinion
On Balancing Improvement and Innovation
Innovations such as personalized and competency-based learning means doing things differently, which can be hard work. Here are 10 tips to help education leaders balance improvement and innovation.
Education
Opinion
Closing the Opportunity Gap at University Academy
K-12 charter school University Academy in Kansas City has become one of Missouri's most elite public schools by focusing on bridging both the opportunity gap and achievement gap for its students.
School & District Management
Opinion
Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
Home of the first school in the Northwest, Vancouver has been an education leader for 180 years. Over the decade that Steve Webb has been superintendent in America's Vancouver (VPS) the level of challenge has increased. Expectations have been raised, the student population has grown to more than 24,000 and a higher percentage of students live in or near poverty.
Education
Opinion
Open Up: High Quality Standards-Aligned Math Curriculum
The newly launched nonprofit Open Up Resources offers openly licensed, standards-aligned educational resources that are accessible to all students, regardless of first language or special needs.
School & District Management
Opinion
Shifting to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States
"Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States" shares the story of three states that took different paths to the same goal of creating state CBE pilot programs.