Electrifying Education Part I: Being There
There are many parallels in how electric vehicles are disrupting the transportation industry and in how digital has the potential to disrupt the education industry. To realize the potential of electric vehicles, we must grasp changed opportunities for reaching our destinations. To realize the potential of digital, we must grasp changed opportunities to reach our students.
The ShapingEDU Student Voices project team is excited to announce an actionable resource to promote student agency and student voice at the course level in higher education and lifelong learning! "Elevating Student Voice & Choice at the Course Level - Version 1" provides ideas and suggestions on course design, instructional strategies, course content and assessment.
At yesterday's Connecting for Work and Learning project team call, we kicked off a new activity to further universal broadband by analyzing the American Jobs Plan. Over the next few weeks, ShapingEDU community members will identify and prioritize intersections between universal broadband & other economic goals listed in the American Jobs Plan. The resulting list of top intersections and opportunities will be an actionable resource for education, government, business and policy changemakers.
On May 11, 2021, the project team for ShapingEDU's "Connecting for Work and Learning" effort, all about broadband access and digital equity, was delighted to welcome two guest speakers:
Universal broadband access now looks to be within reach in the very near future, by virtue of its inclusion in the American Jobs Plan. But that’s just the beginning: each and every one of the other items covered in the American Jobs Plan (e.g. transportation infrastructure, home care jobs, manufacturing) is connected in multiple ways to broadband access. What forms could - or should - these connections take? Which ones are of higher priority, and what steps should be taken to move them forward?
This week, the Connecting for Work and Learning project team was honored to welcome Lyle Ishida, Chief of the Consumer Affairs and Outreach Division, Federal Communications Commission to our project team meeting. We invite you to view the recording here.
ShapingEDU Storyteller in Residence Paul Signorelli regularly uses Google Docs to conduct virtual text-based interviews for the ShapingEDU blog and many other projects. Using Google Docs as an interview platform allows you and your interviewee to have a text-based conversation simultaneously (and/or asynchronously).
Tuesday's keynote "designed the horizon," and envisioned what can be in the education system. Please see a transcription of the keynote's graphic facilitation image below.
Learning Futures: Designing the Horizon (Probable, Plausible, Possible) Keynote with Dr. Sean Leahy, Dr. Punya Mishra and Jodie Donner
