The benefits and opportunities available to educated individuals in Nigeria is “visible to the blind and audible to the deaf”. This made older generation decide to go to school to acquire more knowledge and improve on themselves. Technology has been undeniably beneficial in all aspects of our lives (education, health, commerce and governance) and it is obvious the traditional forms of pr...

According to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, Blockchain will end paper based certificates, automate the award, recognition and transfer of credits, increase learner ownership and control over their own data, reduce institutional data costs and risk–but only if open standards are adopted. The JRC report points to...

The #EdResearchSummit in Pittsburgh was co-hosted by Montour Schools (featured here) and Carnegie Mellon University (featured here). In the opening session of the summit we discussed 10 aspects of the future of learning. Links to recent resources are included below in addition to comments from Pittsburgh educators. 1) Learner Experience: Active learning, design thinking and project-ba...

Have you noticed more discussion recently about Artificial Intelligence or AI? When first hearing “Artificial Intelligence” is there an image that pops into your mind? Is it something that you can easily define? Perhaps your understanding/reference point is something you’ve seen in the movies. For myself, being an 80s child, my initial frame of reference is Star Wars, I immediately think...

In 2015, it was reported that only 7 percent of college students in the United States were enrolled in a foreign language course. The same report, by the Atlantic, pointed out that only 1 percent of adults are proficient in the language they studied in high school, and if you attended high school in the United States chances are pretty high that you took a foreign language course to grad...

With the advent of new technologies being infused in school curricula, educators and school leaders are beginning to rethink all facets of data in the classroom. New, innovative methods of data collection are continually being developed, which offer new options for ongoing formative, culminating summative and alternative assessments. Yet what precisely do nouveau “research-based instruct...

 The technology trends of 2017 were big and impactful, with artificial intelligence (AI) topping the charts, along with on-demand workforce platforms and designing for the human experience. In 2018, technology is set to shift an even bigger focus on the internet of things (IoT), AI and machine learning.  To find out what technologies helped shape 2017 and what tech trends to expect ...