Education 2.0 & 3.0

Author: Isabel Drury, Partnership Manager According to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary teachers have been ...

This blog post is a reflection of two events I went to at the end of October at Keele University and at the UK Council of Graduate Education, both where I presented and spoke to some brilliant people, but it made me think of the well known English phrase ‘rhetoric and reality’. To

The DfE today publishes a new strategy for EdTech, 'Realising the potential of technology in education: A strategy for education providers and the technology industry'.

The strategy sets out the Government's aim "to support and enable the education sector in England to help develop and embed technology in a way that cuts workload, fosters efficiencies, removes barriers to education and ultimately drives improvements in educational outcomes". 

I’ve been doing a bit of research on digital literacy/fluency over the past few months, wondering what initiatives and programs are currently being offered at our post-secondary institutions that build capacity for instructors to use digital tools effectively within a teaching & learning context.

Many organizations have identified a lack of digital literacy among post-secondary educators as a barrier to the adoption of educational technology. In 2014, the NMC Horizon Report (PDF) noted that;

"Edtech companies and K-12 schools have many of the same goals. They both want to see new technology implemented in the classroom in a way that makes the learning process more engaging for students and less labor-intensive for teachers. So why are relationships between companies and schools often so distant, even rocky?"

All too often in many countries, students do not get the education they must have to prosper in the twenty-first century, and countries are not finding adequate numbers of the skilled workers they need to compete. But innovative education technologies are beginning to show potential in helping close the twenty-first-century skill gap.

This week we are celebrating Computer Science Education Week around the globe. In this “age of acceleration,” in which advances in technology and the globalization of business are transforming entire … Read more »

Even 20 years ago, some of the technological perks we have available in the classroom couldn’t have been anything more than a figment of the imagination. How can educators and students make the most out of all these novel technologies? Here are just a few technology-powered trends in education, and a brief note on how these trends affect K-12 education today.

In this free course, Take your teaching online, you will gain  knowledge fundamental to delivering effective teaching online.

Are you looking to build students’ digital literacy skills to better prepare them for success in today’s digital world?

Need a few ideas? We invited educators in our Renaissance Royals™ community to share examples of favorite assignments, projects, or activities they use to help students of all ages build digital literacy skills.

To lead or not to lead? That is the question. How radical can you be? That’s also a question. How much change is too much? That’s another question. To find our professional equilibrium we need to find the answers to these questions.