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 ...

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 ...

Connected learning — education that uses digital media to engage students and encourage communication, collaboration and critical thinking — is the key to student success in the information age, ...

When I started this blog about a year ago, one of the first things that I argued was that a fundamental division exists in education technology between those who believe that learning can be delivered ...

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 ...

Connected learning — education that uses digital media to engage students and encourage communication, collaboration and critical thinking — is the key to student success in the information age, ...

On the third floor of the Nashville Public Library downtown branch, past the hushed rows of monochrome bookshelves and solid wood furniture, a door leads to a place where adult patrons are not welcome ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...