Keynote Speaker Smackdown
Cheryl Lemke, the CEO of Metiri Group, has been invited to participate in a Keynote Speaker Smackdown at the International Society for Technology in Education’s 2012 conference in June. Cheryl is an...
View ArticleInsights from Akron, Ohio – the Death of Undergraduate Education Part 1
Recently my Metiri partner, Cheryl, and I spent two days with a good client of ours, the Inventors Hall of Fame School, in Akron, Ohio. We have been working with this groundbreaking STEM school on...
View ArticlePersonalization of Learning through Digital Content
At the 2012 ISTE conference Metiri’s Cheryl Lemke presented on the Personalization of Learning through Digital Content. This well received presentation presented a framework for understanding the types...
View ArticleInsights from Akron Part 2
As I described in the last blog entry, there is an increasing availability of media, materials, and assessments that will allow motivated learners to essentially “test out” of high school. But as I...
View ArticleWorld Wide Wonders
We’re just wrapping up a project that we are doing for Intel. We’re providing the content for an app that they are developing that is designed to show users how their new Android devices can be...
View ArticleAttend Cheryl’s virtual keynote at FETC 2012
The Florida Educational Technology Conference & Expo has always been known as one of the best in the nation. Maybe, you’ve not been able to travel to Florida to attend one, but you can take part in...
View ArticleDid you know that Metiri can support your one to one initiative?
In 2002, Metiri was selected by Apple computer to provide consultation and guidance to the Henrico County Schools as they rolled out the first large-scale, one-to-one initiative in the nation. Laptops...
View ArticleFETC is around the corner and Cheryl Lemke will be there!
The Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) is one of the most comprehensive educational technology events in the nation. Metiri’s Cheryl Lemke will be providing ideas and insights as a featured...
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2013 Updated Continua for 21st Century Skills Now Available
Increasingly school districts are acknowledging the critical role of 21st Century Skills in preparing students for college and a career in today’s high tech, global, connected society. The 21st Century...
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Metiri Group develops Digital Learning Day District Progress Assessment from...
In a few short days it is Digital Learning Day, and in anticipation of that Project 24 is providing free access to a self-assessment for district leaders. Metiri is proud to have developed the...
View ArticleIs technology making it worse?
A new study suggests that students who used technology for “practice and drill” scored worse on the PISA assessment than students who did not use computers for this purpose. The study generally found...
View ArticleReal, real world problems
The staff at Metiri have been talking a lot about entrepreneurship lately. Over the summer, we presented three webinars on our edWeb community that focused on entrepreneur-readiness skills: Calculated...
View ArticleAre lunchrooms encouraging student entrepreneurs?
It appears some students are more ready to be entrepreneurs than we anticipated. According to this article from the Christian Science Monitor, as school meals get healthier as a result of the Healthy...
View ArticleDeveloping Entrepreneur-Readiness
Metiri Group has been working for almost a year to clearly define the 5 skills that we have found to be essential to enhancing students’ entrepreneur-readiness: calculated risk-taking, evidence-based...
View ArticleTechnology or teaching?
As many schools and district work toward becoming FutureReady, some schools are purposefully staying out of the digital learning game. The article, Tablets out, Imagination in, and (it suggests) the...
View ArticleMetiri Visits the White House
Metiri Group was honored to attend last week’s event at the White House announcing the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one year anniversary of the Future Ready Initiative....
View ArticleI failed the test because…
We have all taken tests. We have all likely sometimes done well and sometimes maybe not as well. The goal of any test is for the differences between the test scores of the individuals to be a result of...
View ArticleCCSS Impact on Teaching
According to the Teaching Higher report, educators have made substantial changes to their instruction in order to align with the Common Core. Over 80% of math teachers and over 70% of language arts...
View ArticleHow not teaching academics improves learning
As NCLB steps aside in favor of ESSA, some changes that were ushered in during the NCLB era seem to be on their way out. One of the unintended side effects of NCLB’s intense focus on reading and math...
View ArticleBut can it be measured?
The component of ESSA that requires schools to include one non-academic measure in assessments of school performance seems like a step in the right direction, at least in terms of recognizing that...
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