EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

A District Wide Blueprint for Change

Learning in the 21st Century is a vibrant and engaging process – one that requires much more than the investment in equipment.

by: A District Wide Blueprint for Change

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Designing Creative Confidence

Not only is it time to reclaim our creative confidence, it is time to reclaim failure too.

by: Jennifer Chan

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Striking the Right Balance Between Innovation and Improvement

Perhaps it’s time that the debate about how we create the conditions for educational success for all students – through both innovation and improvement – became a little more innovative.

by: Bernie Froese-Germain

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Innovation is the Beautiful Chaos that 28 Young Learners Create

Our challenge lies in how best to capture, synthesize and share the magic of learning that happens in authentic contexts.

by: Brian Harrison

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Classroom Innovation Means Giving Up Control

The essence of what drives innovation begins with what kids want to learn.

by: Donna Miller Fry

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Innovation in Education Through Failing

Educators must embrace the concept of learning through failure

by: Bruce Dixon

EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community

Maybe I’m In an Innovation Echo Chamber

I like shiny things, change, being uncomfortable, and doing something about it, but this movement isn’t happening where I am.

by: Aerin Guy

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

CEA Blog Focus on Innovation: Week One

Connecting Some of the Threads

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion

Innovation requires the understanding that learning takes place every day; everywhere.

For real change – dramatic change – systemic change – change has to happen at the policy level – with the elected – at all levels.

by: Sandi Urban-Hall

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Innovation in Education: Why Don’t The Game Changers Change The Game?

by: David Price

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Do Schools Have the Appetite to Innovate?

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Caution: Children Playing

Looking to Our Children for Questions and Answers About School Change

by: Stephen Hurley

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Why do we need innovation in education?

Launch of a CEA blog focus aims to start building some form of consensus of our collective expectations for why innovation is needed in education.

by: Ron Canuel

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The EdCamp Explosion

Taking it to the next level

by: Bruce Beairsto

Engagement, Opinion

Performance Anxiety: A Personal Story

The Gap Between What I Can Do And What I'm Being Asked To Do

by: Stephen Hurley

Engagement, Opinion, Teaching

Cdn EdWire – Making the Link Between Bullying and Boredom

In the wake of the Amanda Todd tragedy, education media take a deeper look at the root causes of bullying.

by: Max Cooke

Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

5 Psychologists, One Philosopher and the Conversations That Could Emerge

Making Room For Another Perspective in Our Educational Discourse

by: Stephen Hurley

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Déja, Déja Vu

Some cautionary notes on how NOT to convince education decision-makers to embrace technology integration

by: Ron Canuel

Assessment, Engagement, Leadership, Opinion, Teaching

Evidence of Teaching, Evidence of Learning

by: Lori Cullen

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

The EdCamp Explosion

Is crowdsourcing pro-d really a good idea?

by: Bruce Beairsto