Papers
The Digital Point of Divergence
There is a big difference between curriculum that is merely digitized and new digital resources. Telling the difference can lead to better learning results. To digitize is to barely alter the form...
School Network Moles and the Emotional Toll of Breached Data Security
Considering the high value of hacked data on the open market, the threat of an ever-present data breach is a fact of life for school districts. The effects of a data breach can be far-reaching, in...
Digital Transition: Personalized Learning and Professional Development
As schools advance the use of technology in education, additional skills are needed for both students and teachers. Autonomous learning, also called student-centered learning is tied to the change...
Beating Back Enrollment Loss by Bridging to Personalized Learning Pathway
Almost every school today needs to counteract enrollment loss to opt-outers who are part of the growing “choice” movement, all seeking alternatives that will suit their individual needs. We now li...
Digital vs. Paper Books: Let’s Do the Math!
Few curriculum buyers are fully familiar with the cost-structure difference when transitioning from paper to digital books. Not just price difference on a per-book cost, but a structural model shi...
Re-Knit Networks for the Remodeled Campus
What happens when the digital incursion of devices and software starts amping up the mobility of students? Starts causing rearrangement of classroom furnishings while network cables form trip ha...
Next Level Serious Address of Digital Equity in Education
Most school executives are not aware of a lack of digital equity beyond just making sure students have a computing device. Yet, a second-level inequity of both slow and completely unavailable netw...
From Data Dolt to Superhero
Micro-data is an observation data-point collected on an individual subject—a statistical unit, as in one question with answer, one quiz, or one piece of personal identity. Being the modern data su...
Categories of Digital Curriculum Characteristics
Download the update! This new edition is a treasure of information. “The 100+ Digital Curriculum Characteristics,” was formerly the “71 Characteristics.” It has been added to, edited, and resear...
The Top 5 Reasons Personalized Learning Fails
For schools to survive into the 22nd Century, the distinction between individualized and the definitions of personalized learning just might be the most important concepts to grasp and apply. Fail...
