Can PBL Help Pave the Way to College Success? YES!
Alliance College-Ready Public School Student Technology Leaders collaborating to assess projects completed by their peers. Photo credit: Courtesy of Alliance College Ready Public Schools Edutopia: Can...
View ArticleOnline Learning Ambassadors pave the way to blended learning success
Generation YES has partnered with Oba - a global platform for online learning to create Oba Ambassadors, a curriculum to teach students how to support online and blended learning initiatives in their...
View ArticleAnnouncing – Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the...
So some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet here lately. All my writing energy has been going to a good cause though! I’m happy to announce a new book: Invent To Learn: Making,...
View ArticleISTE 2013 Roundup – Student Leadership, Hard Fun, and More!
ISTE 2012 – GenYES students discuss education with the Malaysian Minister of Education We are looking forward to another fantastic ISTE – the grandmother of all education technology conferences. This...
View ArticleSpeak Up 2012 report: “From Chalkboards to Tablets: The Emergence of the K-12...
“The results being released today show that we are indeed in a new world. And we as adults need to learn from kids in this instance. We need to learn from students about how they learn, where they...
View ArticleDid you know Google Reader is going away?
Google is a company that likes to release products in “beta” – meaning, “we’re just dating” not getting married to the app. They support lots of products for a while and then when they feel they’ve had...
View ArticleQ&A: How Students Can Help Teachers Use Technology for Learning
From Common Sense Media A thirty-year veteran educator, technology trainer Lisa Hogan teaches students and faculty in Topsham, Maine to better use new digital media tools to transform learning as part...
View ArticleTech support for students, by students – easier and better than ever!
Well, it’s been a quiet summer here on the Generation YES blog, but I can assure you, that’s because there’s been big things happening under the surface! First and foremost – the GenYES tools and...
View ArticleShould we teach all kids to code?
This is a comment I put on the blog post: We’re Not Ready To Teach Kids To Code: Think Kids Should Learn To Code? Teach The Teachers First. It said, ”We need a paradigm shift in education before we...
View Article8 Great Ideas to MAKE Back to School 2013 Memorable
Start the year off with hands on! Think you need to wait for kids to settle down and learn the basics before you let them do projects and hands-on work? Not according to this expert teacher. Making the...
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