Personalized Learning Won’t Be So Easy: Thoughts on the Chan-Zuckerberg...
Perhaps I’m a little jaded, but when I read about Mark Zuckerberg’s and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their daughter which stated that technology would create a world where personalized learning was...
View ArticleFrom Someone Who’s Been There: Virtual Schools Can Learn A Lot from Higher Ed
I’ve been a student and a teacher in so many different situations, it’s difficult to keep track of them all. In high school, I participated in the original form of distance learning: a correspondence...
View ArticleWhat Is The Teachers Role in Assistive Technology by @HEJames
Ed-tech serves great purpose in the worlds of education and technology. It offers so many ways to adapt educational modes to the needs of learners. Teachers can use virtual reality to take their...
View ArticleOld-Fashioned Collaboration Key to Innovation of Race to the Top | @hejames1008
With over $4 billion in grant funding at stake, states were encouraged to accumulate points based on creating innovative programs to meet specific criteria. The post Old-Fashioned Collaboration Key to...
View ArticleHow to Build Entrepreneurs in Your Classrooms by @hejames1008
You may have read the title of this article and thought, Why would I want to build entrepreneurs in my classroom? As an MBA and former educator whose day job is now with a tech startup, I ask you, Why...
View ArticleTeachers in EdTech: Trading the Classroom for the Boardroom by @hejames1008
After I left teaching, I remember working with myriad technologies in my document management and records analysis job. I had some good tools for getting the job done, but there was never a perfect...
View ArticleProtecting Students in the Age of the Cell Phone by @hejames1008
When I left the teaching profession, cell phone technology was in its infancy. Many of them were still clamshell-shaped and few could connect to the Internet unless the contract owner was paying...
View ArticleHow One University Combined Big Data and Counseling Resources to Improve Grad...
One of the greatest struggles a school, no matter its size, can encounter is how best to counsel its students. Student counselors are given huge tasks, from helping students graduate to treating them...
View ArticleIt’s Never Too Late To Start Preparing Your Students For Their Senior Year
By the time students reach senior year classrooms, we educators tend to give them a little more freedom than we do their younger schoolmates. Freshmen and sophomores are still coming into their own as...
View ArticleDisconnect to Connect: Engaging Kids Before Engaging Tech by @hejames1008
It’s never easy to make connections with students. It can be really tough when they’re in middle school. I remember those days. Standing in the hallway, watching students move to and fro made...
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