Reclaiming Digital Futures Report
Connected Learning Alliance has recently issued a new toolkit, and associated report Reclaiming Digital Futures: Lessons to Help Youth Thrive through Informal Learning with Technology. The report shares effective practices for equitable, youth-centered digital...
Learnig the Security Elements of Euro Banknotes and coins
“Connect your money” is a global project developed by a group of students of social studies and economics class of Jorge Augusto Correia Secondary School, in Tavira – Portugal. This project started from a students’ idea about the main question: “How to distinguish...
Magazine: TAVILLA, n. 1, 2018
Doing research work with historical sources may seem tough work, but if you add new challenges including the use of digital media students feel more inspired. Check out an online magazine, Tavilla, on local history from Tavira, Algarve, in Portugal.
Critical Thinking: Students, school and the Rubik’s cube
While enhancing critical thinking, students were asked about how they feel about school. One of the statements “Students are like a Rubik’s cube in disorder and school puts them all alike” was the motto for shooting a short video. Would you like to watch it?...
It’s time to change the direction of the arrow
After 100 Years of the Same Teaching Model It’s Time to Throw Out the Playbook Time to Throw Out the Playbook In looking back at my parents’ education in the 1950s and 60s, and my own education in the 1990s and 2000s, I worry sometimes that despite the huge advances...
Virtual Museums, a new teaching strategy
Most students find it difficult to understand the different artistic vanguards and their main characteristics. One of the reasons is because it is not common among families to visit museums and appreciate works of modern art. Yet, Modern Art is a main subject of...
Chibitronics
Chibitronics is certainly for younger kids but it’s an excellent example of production-centred approach in education. Check their site for making electronic stickers, which will let your students create, craft and code technology through arts and crafts....
5 Simple Ways to Inspire Lifelong Learners With Tech
5 Simple Ways to Inspire Lifelong Learners With Tech A good grade should never be the sole indicator of student success—while good grades show that a student is focused and hardworking, the true mark of success is when students are inspired to continue learning...
This is my story, these are my tools
I’d like to share a learning path developed by our Italian partners in Theatre & Digital Storytelling project aimed at involving students with cognitive and physical disabilities into an exciting learning experience. The idea is to help them capture and share with...
Museum learning
Mike Murawski’s question How can museums begin to more closely connect with in-school and out-of-school digital literacy practices, tapping the tools of the digital age as well as the elements of making, connecting, and experimenting that create powerful possibilities...
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