Blog Archives: K-12
Teaching: challenge students to think on their feet!
Destination Imagination, Inc. can help to teach creativity. This non-profit organization helps kids around the world discover their creativity through their Challenge based programs/assignment. The international tournament for kids kicks of at every start of the season. Teams will form and choose one of seven Challenges provided. After weeks spent creating and developing their solutions, they go to a local [...]
Envisioning the Future of Education Technology
From learning experts TFE Research and emerging technology strategist Michell Zappa. Following this info-graphic the vision for education is that by 2040 the traditional classroom will be replaced by virtual spaces. What are your thoughts regarding this model?
Children are leaving a footprint online as well
These days the introduction of technology to our children is starting at a very early age. If a child is introduced to a digital device early on and can handle and maneuver it; it most likely will be able to handle the majority of devices that it will be confronted with on an everyday basis starting early on in school. [...]
Turning the traditional classroom on its head “The Flipped Classroom”
The “Flipped Classroom” is a reversed teaching model. Bringing the classroom to the students’ “home” through interactive on-line delivering methods and moving the homework into the classroom. This model allows the student to work through the lecture on their own time and within their own space, communicating with piers and instructors via online discussions. Within the classroom setting the teacher [...]