EdTech Researcher
Justin Reich is the executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher. Beth Holland is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University and an instructor at EdTechTeacher. Douglas Kiang has over 25 years of teaching experience at all grade levels and currently teaches computer science at Punahou School. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.
School & District Management
Opinion
Potty Training and the Age-Old Question: Can We Measure Learning?
The case of potty training provides a good example of how we can find simple indicators that give us insight into deeply complex learning phenomena.
Education
Opinion
Invitation to Massive: Worst Case Scenarios for Large-Scale Learning
An invitation to participate in an open session of T509-Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale.
Education
Opinion
Listening to Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale
A podcast from the Harvard Graduate School of Education about Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale.
Education
Opinion
The School Leader's 1-to-1 Implementation Checklist
Slides and images from a recent talk about how school leaders can best support meaningful changes in teaching and learning as they roll out 1-to-1 computing initiatives.
Education
Opinion
Books or Screens: Talk to Your Kids
Interaction with adults is critical when it comes to language acquisition in young children. So what does that mean for e-readers and technology?
Education
Opinion
Paper Versus Laptop: The Best of Both Worlds
In a guest post, Sabba Quidwai reacts to a recent study comparing paper and computers for note-taking in lecture settings.
Education
Opinion
Towards a Pedagogy for Tablets: From Consumption to Curation and Creation
Tom Daccord and I have recently published a new ebook, iPads in the Classroom: From Consumption to Curation and Creation, from the newly formed EdTechTeacher Press, immediately available on Amazon and soon to be available through iBooks. The first chapter of the book, which sets out some of our vision of the challenges of education in the decades ahead, is available for free here.
Education
Opinion
Three Lessons from the History of Education Technology
How new technologies impact teacher practice, student equity, and the rhetoric of change and transformation.
Education
Opinion
Strike Zone Cameras Ruined Baseball, and Implications for Education
A story about baseball, and the predictably unpredictable consequences of introducing new technologies into complex systems of humans and machines.
School & District Management
Opinion
Pitching A Great EdTech Conference Session
Thoughts in advance of a September 4 webinar on writing conference proposal submissions for the EdTechTeacher Boston iPad Summit in November.
Education
Opinion
Navigating the Two Kinds of Online Discussion Forums
Changes have been made to edX discussion forums that highlight the differences between discussions meant to explore a topic and discussions meant to identify a single correct answer.
Education
Opinion
Research Questions and (Better) Learning Analytics
On Tuesday, August 19 at noon EST, I'll be participating in a webinar with Audrey Watters, Andrew Sliwinsky, and Vanessa Gennarelli. We'll be wrestling with the technical and ethical challenges of using data from online learning systems to improve teaching and learning.
Education
Opinion
Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
A recent article suggests that open science may be irreconcilable with anonymous data, requiring a reconsideration of how we protect privacy in educational data.
Education
Opinion
Teach the Whole Family to Code: MIT Media Lab Family Creative Learning Guide
Ricarose Roque and colleagues at MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Lab have released lesson plans and materials for a five workshop series introducing kids and parents into computing and maker culture.