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Aug 26, 20153 min read
3 Ways to Avoid School-as-Usual
50.1 million children will attend school in grades PK-12 this fall, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of those,...
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Aug 24, 20154 min read
What If You Built an EdTech Company and Not Enough People Came?
In January, Ambient Insight reported that global investments in learning technology reached $2.34 billion worldwide. In the U.S. market,...
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Aug 24, 20155 min read
Can We Teach Someone to Be More Self-Directed?
If you are familiar with the story of Timothy Doner, the kid who taught himself 20 languages, you are probably not only impressed by his...
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Aug 24, 20152 min read
Can We Back Into a Plan for More Relevant Learning Design?
If we look ahead to tomorrow’s workplace, we know that employees need to be increasingly: Agile thinkers and problem solvers Technically...
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Aug 23, 20154 min read
Maker Spaces and Digital Fabrication Democratize Learning
As Paulo Blikstein noted “Innovation and collaborative problem-solving are core skills for virtually any career, and yet those are the...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
What Did You Do This Summer?
When people ask “How’s your summer going?” it reflects a paradigm built around a traditional school year calendar but which applies to a...
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Aug 23, 20152 min read
Start AIMMING for Success
It’s time to start AIMMing for success. AIMM is a simple acronym for Academics Integrated with Making and Mentoring, a straightforward...
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Aug 23, 20155 min read
Are You Planning on Sending Your Child Back to School as Usual?
What if the school to which your child returned in the fall was so different from what the industrial age, traditional school looked and...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
Questions Raised by a Placeholder Diploma
Last week I observed over 600 students from the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts graduate at the esteemed Avery Fisher Hall....
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
Letter to My High School Graduate
Tomorrow you will participate in a ceremony at one of this city’s most prestigious cultural institutions to celebrate your graduation...
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