Innovations

There are many exciting new technologies that will continue to transform the world and improve education. These articles list all the innovations that will shape the future of education in the next 10 years.


10 Best Tech Videos
Let’s continue our best of reviews with the 10 best tech videos for 2018. Best Video #10 How Books are Scanned (How Things Work) This is how books are scanned pic.twitter.com/XYCp0ua3qs — How Things Work (@ThingsWork) November 27, 2017 Every since I saw this video, I became addicted to their […]

10 Best Tech Videos for 2018


I want you to start the year right with the best tech tips one could hope for in 2018. Tip #10 Master Media Literacy with Fake News This tip unfortunately remains as relevant today as when I published this article. The main idea is to develop ourselves as knowledge constructors […]

10 Best Tech Tips for 2018




Flag for the Republic of Karelia
To get a lesson on how to to create human-centered designs, look no further than G10 Claire. She gets the tip of the hat this week for leveraging social media in order to establish global connections. Her assignment was to create a flag for a chosen place or territory. Claire picked The Republic of Karelia, a little known former USSR state. This task was realized in the context of her MYP Design class. With her work, she exemplifies the concept of empathy at the core of design thinking. In order to determine how best to design her flag, she wanted the input of people from the Republic of Karelia to better capture the feelings of the population. To reach out to them, she used Reddit.

Student Demonstrates Empathy in Design



What Kids Wish Their Teachers Knew - Grade 3 students fill in the blank in "I Wish My Teacher Knew _____" and the results provide an unexpectedly deep inside into their emotional and social lives • If You Use This Font You Are... Do you use outdated fonts for branding? What message are you sending when you use a font? Use this chart to see how some of the most common fonts are being viewed by today's designers.

What Kids Wish Their Teachers Knew



KAS Google Reference School 3
The first tip of the hat for this academic year 2016-2017 goes off to all of you teachers at Kaohsiung American School. Your efforts to model digital age work and learning have been recognized today by Google. Thanks to you, Kaohsiung American School has been granted the status of Google Reference School! This is a close circle of institutions which include some of the most innovative schools in the world.

Google Reference School in Taiwan


Follow The Sun
A collection of links discovered beyond the breaking waves of the Internet. This week: • If You're Going to Learn Something New... Learn Something New • The secret army of cheerleaders policing China’s internet • How to Stop Facebook from Using your iPhone or Android to Listen to Everything you Say • Follow the Sun • Algodoo - Amazing Physics Simulation App • Teachers Who Tweet

Learn Something New