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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.
Education
Opinion
The Math Blogotwittosphere is the Best Blogotwittosphere
It hurts to say it, but it's true: the math blogotwittosphere is the best blogotwittosphere.
Education
Opinion
Leadership in Technology is Really Leadership in Learning
My own takeaway from the workshop is the tremendous importance of breaking the "technology silos" in schools. We need fewer technology plans, and more learning plans that incorporate technology.
Education
Opinion
ISTE Ignite: Fighting for Digital Equity
Last month I had a chance to participate in the first Ignite presentation series at the International Society of Technology in Education Conference.
School & District Management
Opinion
What we Lose with Personalization (Part 2)
Personalization optimizes on observable characteristics. Lots of things we care about are not easy or inexpensive to computationally observe.
Education
Opinion
What We Lose with Personalization (Part 1)
Given the near universal agreement across a wide range of educators that personalization has tremendous potential for education, I've started thinking more about the threat posed by personalization.
Education
Opinion
Technology Is Not a Silver Bullet
When it comes to using educational technology in the classroom, it seems like every school is doing it, has done it already, or has plans to do it in the near future.
Education
Opinion
Higher Education Is a Lifestyle
With the recent unveiling of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard's digital learning platform, EdX, the exclusivity of the MIT and Harvard undergraduate education is allegedly crumbling.
Education
Opinion
Come Build Community with Me and Facing History (Job Opening)
Facing History is hiring a Program Associate for Online Community and Educator Support, a person who will work very closely with me in the years ahead.
Education
Opinion
Teresa Sullivan is my President
Tomorrow, the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors will meet for the unenviable task of evaluating whether or not they made a colossal mistake.
Education
Opinion
Battling over the Meaning of "Personalization"
"Personalization" is the buzzword of ISTE 2012: in the years ahead, that word will be the frontline of the battleground between educationists with competing visions of the future of learning.
Education
Opinion
The MTT2K Prize and Kudos for Khan
I'm very pleased to announce the very first MTT2K Prize for the best video commentary on a Khan Academy video!
Education
Opinion
Don't Use Khan Academy without Watching this First
I'm adding a new plank to my KA platform: no teacher or administrator should use or support the use of Khan Academy videos without watching the first episode of Mystery Teacher Theater 2000 or MTT2K.
Education
Opinion
Rethinking Teaching and Time with the Flipped Classroom
I'm doing one of my favorite tasks today: I'm running a Flipped Classroom workshop today at Shrewsbury High School.
I love working with teachers about the Flipped Classroom, because it has a fabulous balance of pedagogy and technology. Specifically, it's a little bit about some very easy screencasting technology, and the majority of our time is spent thinking about goals, pedagogy and learning.
Education
Opinion
When Leftists and Libertarians Agree about Learning Webs
Several weeks ago, I was in a meeting at Berkman with Howard Rheingold who recommended Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, a remarkably prescient book from 1971 which predicts the rise of technology driven "Learning Webs". These Learning Webs are computer-mediated networks where learners identify their needs, find appropriate peers and mentors to advance their skills, and pursue their own individually-crafted education experience. What Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash did for immersive virtual worlds, Deschooling Society does for education: craft a compelling vision of a near future that we can watch come to pass around us.