Baltes Wins CEI’s First Ever ‘Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use’ Competit
Alleta Baltes is the 2015 winner of CEI’s first annual Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use Competition. The contest asked...
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Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 22, 20141 min read
Save the Date: February 5, 2015, CEI STEAM Learning Showcase
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) Leaning Showcase Explore, Learn, Share and Collaborate Time: 4:30 pm ‘“ 6:30 pm...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 9, 20141 min read
CEI “Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use” Competition
By Christine Mason Runners up: 2nd Place: $50 gift card; 3rd place: $25 gift card. Early in 2014 we introduced CEI ‘s 21st Century...
Center for Educational Improvement
Nov 26, 20142 min read
CEI Gives Thanks
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Thanksgiving! CEI continues to thrive due to a dedicated team, your interest and support, and...
Center for Educational Improvement
Nov 18, 20143 min read
Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern Since 2010, 46 states have adopted the Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCSS). Of America’s 50 states, only...
Center for Educational Improvement
Nov 17, 20141 min read
Mind & Life International Symposium with the Dalai Lama
By Christine Mason Michele and I found ourselves surrounded by others who were thrilled to be learning more about the value of...
Center for Educational Improvement
Oct 3, 20142 min read
CEI Visits Chesterfield Academy
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern Last month, the CEI team of Dr. Chris Mason, Liz Parry, and Sue Mullane visited Chesterfield Academy to offer...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 15, 20142 min read
Engineering Empathy
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Educators at every level of schooling’”from Pre-K to Higher Education’”benefit from including lessons...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 11, 20142 min read
Gaming our way into the Future
Norrell Edwards, CEI Intern. We’d choose a game labeled with the grade level I would be entering that fall, as well as games that would...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jun 28, 20141 min read
CEI’s Heart Beaming Tool
Why Heart Beaming®? Heart Beaming is a positive thing for youth and adults to do. It is not expensive. It does not take hours of...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jun 13, 20141 min read
CEI’s Technology Rubric: Measuring your school’s technology quotient
By Ingrid Padgett, CEI’s Strategic Initiatives Associate. We are pleased to report that with input from school administrators, school...
Center for Educational Improvement
May 13, 20142 min read
Cyber Learning and Gaming-the Future of Education
Norrell Edwards, CEI Intern. As we continue further into the 21st century, we’re seeing more and more alignment of education with...
Center for Educational Improvement
Apr 29, 20143 min read
Part I. Finnish and American Education
Since you have had the opportunity to observe/participate in education in both the U.S. and Finland, could you compare and contrast the...
Center for Educational Improvement
Apr 15, 20142 min read
Science Writer and Other Resources to Create Access to Learning
In conjunction with the Common Core the state of Maryland has mandated that all local school systems use UDL guidelines for curriculum,...
Center for Educational Improvement
Apr 4, 20142 min read
Learning With Portals
Portal is, at it’s core, a physics platformer. Players, called “Test Subjects” are locked in a room, with the exit on the opposite side...
Center for Educational Improvement
Mar 18, 20143 min read
Montessori and the CCSS or Montessori vs. the CCSS?
Montessori, the Method. The Montessori Method is based on the idea that each child must be permitted to control his or her own learning...
Center for Educational Improvement
Mar 7, 20143 min read
The Virtue of Collaborative Inquiry
‘Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.’ ‘• Socrates Socrates teaches us that the mark of an educated person...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 28, 20142 min read
Forging the Missing Link: Engineering for Children
What is technology? Anyone living in the first world in the twenty first century can give you examples of technology; however, defining...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 21, 20143 min read
Games in Education
by Victoria Zelvin. Already in schools, teachers and educators are using video games to help foster learning in the classroom. Much of...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 19, 20132 min read
Top 4 Educational Technologies Available in 2013 and Still Relevant in 2014
Below are four of the top education technologies that perhaps teachers used in your school last year. To keep your students engaged, to...
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