Public education is now transitioning from a system of educating citizens to a
market for profit. “Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating
over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education,
We sacrifice control in the name of convenience. As we become like cyborgs, we
should expect more control over our technology. Tech has long aimed to provide
additional conveniences for modern living, with
“In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get
up, time to get up, seven o’clock!”
~ Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
The more our tools
This article was originally published inEducating Modern Learners
[http://modernlearners.com/homework-is-a-social-justice-issue/].
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When a teacher assigns homework, she makes some big assumptions about students’
home lives. Do they have the requisite supplies?
The 21st century learning landscape demands a significant shift in the role, but
not the importance, of the teacher. Smart use of relevant technology can help
make that shift easier.
In June of
“Screens so hi-def you might as well be there, cost effective videophonic
conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles (…)
Half of all metro Bostonians now work from home via some digital link.
I’m a feminist teacher of writing and literature of over 25 years and,
amazingly, I still love it. I love the transformative nature of critical
feminist pedagogy, the dialogic classes where meaning
Howard Rheingold brought this piece to our attention after Jesse and Sean
published “Is it Okay to Be a Luddite
[http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/]” on
Instructure’s Keep Learning blog.
This piece was originally published
[http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/] on
Instructure’s Keep Learning blog. When it posted, we received a message from
Howard Rheingold (NetSmart [http://rheingold.com/books/
For many, the classroom is an alienating place. There are environmental factors
that play into this (and monetary factors that play into these environmental
ones). There are stigmas, expectations, and traditions that may
Hybrid pedagogy does not just describe an easy mixing of on-ground and online
learning, but is about bringing the sorts of learning that happen in a physical
place and the sorts of learning
This is the third in aseries [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity]of
articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers
and scholars, but also as learners, composers, and
This is the first in a series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity] of
articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers
and scholars, but also as learners, composers,
