Last August I wrote that Personalized Learning was a “rising tide” in North American schools and districts. Specifically, I said that, thanks to new insights from science and psychology and new trends in IT and social media – all of which were starting to coalesce in K-12 education, “the Genie” was out of the bottle,” […]
‘BIG DATA’ is your friend! … Not Really
Unless you’ve taken up residence in a cave or hermitage, it’s hard to escape a message these days that the future will be, and is being shaped by Big Data. Where yesterday’s data – let’s call it Little Data – was based on sample sizes easily grokked by the average citizen (of n = 1,000 […]
(My) Summer Learning Club is In!
Summer has given me a chance to catch up on various reading and PD projects, which have all been very worthwhile! I’ve posted a few quick insights below. First up, to match my growing interest in gamifying learning – that is, applying elements of gaming to learning and education processes – I read Actionable Gamification […]
’21st Century Learning’ needs to connect to nature and the numinous
I was recently asked by my wife, in the course of researching her Masters thesis in SelfDesign Graduate Institute, to reflect on life experiences that provided me with an experience of ‘beauty’. I had no trouble landing on two experiences I had as a child, both during summertime, both outside of schooling, and each of […]
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