Quite often you can see hurray-news being spread virally when discussing technology in education, when things go wrong or turn out less successful than planned news suddenly seem to go much less viral although you will always be able to find people who like a dig at technology-driven reform. I do think that sharing stories… Read More A story about iPad-schools in the Netherlands
Non-cognitive functions, or personal qualities are getting more attention in education, but are the existing measures ok? According to a review by Angela L. Duckworth and David Scott Yeager published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, caution is needed! From the press release: Personal skills are generally considered to be… Read More Review study warns for using measures of students’ ‘non-cognitive’ skills for teacher evaluation, school accountability, or student diagnosis
Slides for this talk are available here and do check her blog here. Oh, I sure like her suggestion for kidney-based learning ;).
I was asked by Louis Hilgers to write a review on this new book. It was first published on ictnieuws.nl together with a response of Marc Prenzky to my comments, do check it beneath the Dutch version of this review. The response is in English. Some people may think it is strange for me to… Read More My review of ‘Brain Gain’, the new book by Marc Prenzky + his response!