Tag: K12

The “junk food” of educational technology
Unlike my previous complimentary post about Minecraft, I find this – and many other ed tech gamification tools – to be the ‘junk food’ of educational technology. Sure, kids like it (just like they like french fries more than cooked veggies) and they get a lot more excited by it […]

NU-ETHS collaboration a national model
The three-year-old formal collaboration between Northwestern University and the Evanston Township High School has become a national model for university-high school partnerships. Source: NU-ETHS collaboration a national model | Evanston Now This story only scratches the surface of the many powerful connections Kristen has been able to forge between the […]