Singapore’s Ministry of Education provides a clear answer to the question raised by a third-grade Singaporean science teacher: It’s no longer about preparing children for the Industrial Age. It's about preparing children for the Age of Knowledge Work. Okay, American education: Time to enter the 21st century!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 03/31/15
As documented on the front page of the New York Times, teachers are being asked to make decisions about the data privacy and security aspects of the apps they bring into their classrooms. With the current district/school policies, it is only a matter of time before a parent will sue a teacher for allowing a child’s data to be published on the Internet. Something is wrong here!!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 03/23/15
Our expert explains some basic privacy issues that district leaders need to understand.
In this post we first describe, based on research, what a productive (synchronous) collaborative interaction is, and then we identify the three benefits to the students from engaging in a productive collaborative interaction.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 03/12/15
Connectivity is an absolute necessity, but it isn’t enough. The Internet is merely a river of information. In order to drink from it, each student needs his or her own cup.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 03/10/15
Using the “productivity paradox” from the business world, we can understand why student achievement has not benefitted from technology use.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 03/04/15
Based on more than 30 years of working with schools in the U.S. and our recent 7 years working with schools in Singapore, we have come up with a list of 11 barriers that need to be addressed if technology is going to have an impact beyond the isolated classroom.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 02/25/15
An instructional technologist wrote the following list for parents at her school to tell them what their kids need to know to be ready for upper school.
In this week’s blog post, we continue with our “Learnings from Singapore, Implications for Us” theme and describe some empirical data that provocatively support the conjecture that technology can, in fact, give a leg up to children who have trouble learning.
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 02/16/15
This week’s blog post provides educators and researchers with information on how to set up classroom-based educational technology research. It’s not for the faint of heart, but progress won’t happen without it!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 02/09/15