Tag Archives: Technology

Geoff Grimmer, Academic Director, Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy (VSSA) - USA
June 6, 2012

“Kids who ‘own’ their learning are destined to do the most amazing things.” – USA

Tricia Fuglestad, K-5 Art Teacher - USA
June 5, 2012

“Art education programs sit dangerously close to the chopping block during times of financial difficulties.” – USA

Beth Varsho, Instructional Technology Integration Specialist - USA
June 4, 2012

“Don’t try too many things at once. Find one thing to do, do it right, and start small. If it is successful, it will grow.” – USA

Curtis Bennett, Professor of Mathematics - USA
June 3, 2012

“The assessment/No Child Left Behind frenzy has left many students thinking that math is about applying formulas and simply getting an answer rather than about problem solving and discovering answers.” – USA

Diane Evans, Associate Professor of Mathematics - USA
June 1, 2012

“Students engage in and remember lessons from unique classroom experiences; the old lecture style formats do not work with today’s students.” – USA

Laura Rahn, Fourth Grade Teacher - USA
May 28, 2012

“Teachers need to find their own ways to learn and not wait for professional development to come to them.” – USA

Urvish Dhruvkumar Chhaya, Assistant Professor - India
May 27, 2012

“I would like to prevent the over-commercialization of education.” – India

Les Foltos, Director of Educational Innovation, Peer-Ed - USA
May 26, 2012

“The biggest obstacle in the US is the single-minded obsession with testing and accountability with little or no effort to help teachers improve.” – USA

Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab - USA
May 25, 2012

“Education needs to be more than about making a living, but about making a life.” – USA

Jonathan Bergmann, Pioneer Flipped Class Model - USA
May 22, 2012

The “Flipped Classroom” starts with one question: what is the best use of my face-to-face class time?

Monica Kissel, Assistant Principal - USA
May 21, 2012

“When you talk about putting an Xbox in the classroom the first thing you think is “you’re putting a video game in the classroom?”- USA

Darren Fix, Science Teacher - USA
May 19, 2012

“It’s like science. See what is already known about the problem and then purposefully ‘experiment’ in your class.” – USA

Dawn Fregosa, NFTE Entrepreneurship and High School Biology Instructor - USA
May 15, 2012

“Kids don’t vote, and parents often don’t have the educations they deserve and don’t know how to change things, so the caretaking of our future is left to the teachers and administrators.” – USA

Satki
May 13, 2012

“Be patient. Through consistent work and cooperation, the positive results are inevitable.” – Macedonia

Michelle Aubrecht, Game-based learning specialist - USA
May 12, 2012

“Game making is the best activity I can imagine for kids to be involved with – being on a team, working together to make something.” – USA

Cheryl Arnett, Teacher - USA
May 11, 2012

“One teacher at a time, one lesson at a time, one innovative idea at a time; a transformation is taking place in our schools.” – USA

Graciela Bertancud, Professor - Argentina
May 10, 2012

“Challenges are overcome with the conviction that technology benefits the learning process of the students and their quality of life.” – Argentina

Thodoris Andriopoulos, Math teacher, Author - Greece
May 9, 2012

Broaden students’ minds and arouse interest in math through detective games – Greece

Sarah Wessling, English teacher, National Teacher of the Year 2010 - USA
May 8, 2012

“I’m more afraid of mediocrity than I am of failure.” – USA

Ramesh Khamrana, Senior Teacher Science - India
May 7, 2012

Effective use of technology is the best opportunity for innovation in education. It “develops the global village concept.” – India