May 2015, Museums are no dinosaur! Museums and New Instructional Resources   We’ve all experienced the museum as a place to go as a member of an elementary class or on a stormy weekend day. In the internet age,

April 2015, Play to Learn Part 1: Educational Games as Mainstream Instructional Resources  It is a quite common thing to say that anything that requires work is “not all fun and games”. Students often use this phrase to describe learning both in and

Play to Learn, Part I: When will educational games be mainstream instructional resources, or are they already?What is the role of play for humans? In our rather puritanical society is play a valid method to support learning or does it change the game? Wil

March 2015, Education Canaries: Can Data Rich Systems Predict and Prevent Failure? One of the significant promises of big data in education is to predict and prevent student failure. Of course we want to see learners succeed and data can help us wit...

One of the significant promises of big data in education is to predict and prevent student failure. Of course we want to see learners succeed and data can help us with that as well, however, catching students before they get lost or even drop out is essen

Re-forming Summative Assessments: Blurring the line between learning and testing We will explore the following questions: What does a learning environment look like where learning and assessment are seamlessly integrated? What are the benefits and is

January 2015, Re-forming Summative Assessments:  Blurring the line between learning and testing What if we could make that timeless question ‘Will this be on the test’ irrelevant? In today’s mainstream educational system we clearly differentiate b

Where Art Thou?: Moving from STEM to STEAMSTEM is all the rage and rightly so. The skills our children need to learn regardless of their profession incorporate the skills that are taught in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes. With t

December 2014, Where Art Thou?: Moving from STEM to STEAM STEM is all the rage and rightly so. The skills our children need to learn regardless of their profession incorporate the skills that are taught in science, technology, engineering,

November 2014, More Than Just A Good Idea: Education Research to Guide Product Development Ideas abound for new teaching methodologies, and curriculum, and each claims to be innovative and effective. Governments throughout the world fund a wealth of ...