• Can your printer print your coffee mug? Explore

  • Do schools need cognitive fitness centers instead of gyms? Explore

  • Do the 3rs matr nE mor? Explore

  • Do you have to be a principal to lead a school? Explore

  • Does your kid need medication to succeed? Explore

  • How will kids grade each other? Explore

  • Is a disability actually an asset? Explore

  • Is public education on its death bed? Explore

  • Will gaming replace textbooks? Explore

  • Will teachers join eBay instead of a union? Explore

  • Will we learn to work or work to learn? Explore

Learning Agent

Personal Education Advisor

A New Civic Discourse > Educitizens > Personal Education Advisor
Assigned by certified local education agencies, such as schools, resource centers, and libraries, or selected and contracted by families, personal education advisors help families create, nurture, and maintain personal learning ecologies.
Related Topics

Trends

Personal Metrics

Personal data trails about preferences, attributes, and performance shape an evidence-based culture.  […] Explore Personal Metrics

Open-Source Assessment

Data trails, participatory media, and visual tools create new bases for reputation, mastery, and recognition […] Explore Open-Source Assessment

TRENDS 1 2 3 4 5  ALL

Learning Agents

Community Intelligence Cartographer

Community intelligence cartographers will tap the collective intelligence of their local communities. […] Explore Community Intelligence Cartographer

Learning Fitness Instructor

Learning fitness instructors will help learners build and strengthen the basic cognitive, emotional, […] Explore Learning Fitness Instructor

LEARNING AGENTS 1 2  ALL

What do you think?

No comments yet. Why don't you kick things off?

Join the Conversation

  • * = required fields

In-depth Research and Articles

Gary Stager Interview - Thoughts About Education

As part of the Future of Education Interview Series, Steve Hargadon interviews Gary Stager, an internationally […] Expand for Continued Reading

As part of the Future of Education Interview Series, Steve Hargadon interviews Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator and consultant. Gary has spent 27 years helping teachers on six continents make sense of their roles in the age of personal computing and schools more constructive places for children.

Associated Topic:
Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy

Tags:
interview series, learning economy, learning environments, online education, teacher preparation,

Added: March 19, 2009

Re-Imagining Teaching Careers

This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation on […] Expand for Continued Reading

This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation on the topic of "Re-Imagining Teaching Careers." In hosting this convening, KnowledgeWorks Foundation hoped to: 1) Probe critical issues of the future in order to consider what learning experiences might be relevant for students, 2) Explore how learning might be delivered in the future, 3) Begin imagining what types of roles might be constructed to deliver such learning, and 4) Examine how these roles might be supported within a larger system or profession.

Associated Topic:
Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy

Tags:
customer preferences, learning agents, teacher preparation, teachers,

Added: March 19, 2009

Preparing Highly Effective Teachers

This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation, […] Expand for Continued Reading

This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation, a Cincinnati, Ohio, based operating foundation whose mission is to solve national education problems innovatively and with others, on the topic of "Preparing Highly Effective Teachers." In hosting this convening, KnowledgeWorks Foundation hoped to develop a knowledge-era vision for preparing quality teachers. The foundation also hoped to identify the most essential elements of, and the barriers and steps in reaching, that vision.

Associated Topic:
Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy

Tags:
learning agents, teacher certification, teacher preparation,

Added: March 19, 2009

Future of Education Community

This community is devoted to providing an opportunity for those who care about education to share their […] Expand for Continued Reading

This community is devoted to providing an opportunity for those who care about education to share their voices and ideas with others. It's a place for thoughtful discussion on an incredibly important topic.

Associated Topic:
Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy

Tags:
This resource has not been tagged.

Added: January 23, 2009

First Previous 1 2 Next Last 
Sign in to add a resource.

Tags

Sign in to add new tags.