Preparing students for tomorrow requires more than new technology. It requires rethinking how learning itself is designed.

July is a luminous month that I’ve spent in previous years exploring, traveling, visiting friends and feeling that deep rejuvenation after a busy end of a school year. This time, it’s unsettling, as ...

Fifty-nine percent of students say they would like more opportunities for career-connected learning, according to a new report from the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and Gallup. The report, Voices ...

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a fundamental psychological theory that explains human motivation. At its base are physiological and safety needs, followed by love and belonging, esteem, and ...

The average American student spends roughly 15,000 hours in school between kindergarten and 12th grade, far more than the 10,000 hours needed to master almost anything. Imagine a school that ...

When groups within a larger community don’t share information, it doesn’t only reduce efficiency – it limits opportunity. This is the “silo effect,” and it’s long been identified as something ...

A Michigan Statewide Carpenters & Millwrights Apprenticeship representative assists a job seeker using a virtual welding simulation machine during the Ready, Set, Build! A Ready, Set, Build! A ...

Connected learning (CL) is not new, but many librarians struggle with embedding the concept into programming and services. “Library staffers still are uncertain what the [CL] framework actually ...

A unique career-readiness program launches this week on the campus of the University of Indianapolis.

The third through eighth grade students of New York survived another round of annual state testing in ELA and Math (if they didn’t opt-out) and now the “normal” learning resumes. As a parent of a ...

The headlines are legion, the sentiment, widespread: “Why Social Media is Destroying Our Social Skills” (USA Today). “Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects” (MIT ...

Down a dusty alleyway, in Rihab, on the outskirts of Mafraq in Northern Jordan, you would not expect what appears to be an anonymous building from the outside, to actually be a centre of learning, ...