The most enduring kind of learning happens when you combine the influence of peer culture (...) when cultivating new interests, and linking that to a place where learning matter for young people.
“The main task of schools will be to empower young people to become lifelong learners who actively develop their learning biographies.” So says a European Commission’s Foresight Report envisioning learning in 2025.
“What’s the best way to improve teaching? Focus on learning. And the best way to increase learning? Move the focus off the teacher and onto the student” David Kolb, 1992
Fundación Telefónica
The motivation behind the image was to remind teachers that carefully thinking through just what we want our kids to know and be able to do is the FIRST step that we need to take when making choices about the role that technology plays in our teaching. Bill Ferriter
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Afton Partners, The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, CEE Trust, The Christensen Institute, Charter School Growth Fund, EDUCAUSE, iNACOL, The Learning Accelerator, The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Silicon Schools, and educators across the United States, (2014)
