About Tom
Tom March has been "working the Web" and contributing "Bright Ideas for education" since 1994. It all started with WebQuests and continued from there to include a range of other Web-based teaching formats, tools like Filamentality and Web-and-Flow and an emphasis on quality as seen in BestWebQuests. These days, Tom focuses on supporting systemic change toward 1:1 digital learning. Primarily this means The Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL as main components of "Next Era Ed."Bright Ideas
Core Strategies
- Next Era Ed Overview (pdf)
- The Edge-ucators Way
- Look to Learn
- ClassPortal
- WebQuests & WQ 2.0
CEQ•ALL
- CEQ•ALL Overview
- Research Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
Category Archives: Flat World Education
Digital Media & Learning Competition
Today the HASTAC / MacArthur Foundation opened comments on the applications to the Digital Media and Learning Competition. Mine is called “Our2020” and seeks to engage a global audience of teenagers to explore and develop media artifacts and knowledge around … Continue reading
Denmark: Exams 2.0
As I mentioned in the NML Conference debrief, Denmark is taking the lead in piloting full Internet access for students taking their end of high school exams. Nice to see the BBC article verifying that this has taken place. As … Continue reading
Intriguing Ourselves to Death…
a plea for Education… What follows isn’t anything new, but will likely be all too common – yet it serves as a concrete example of why education must change and what it must address. Over an hour ago, I thought … Continue reading
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“Seat time” 2.0
Reports have been surfacing about different ways students use the daily bus ride to school. One particularly interesting one comes from Arkansas where it’s reported that Sheridan Turns School Bus into Classroom. This program is a joint effort and demonstrates … Continue reading
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A “Vision” of Knowledge
File this post under: “Intriguing ourselves to Death” Check the cool new mashup of Google Maps, Wikipedia and László Kozma’s programming that he calls WikipediaVision. It’s a great illustration of the changing nature of “knowledge.” WikipediaVision provides relatively realtime markers … Continue reading
The “outsourced brain”
David Brooks’ Op-Ed piece “The Outsourced Brain” in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke his use of … Continue reading
Teachers in Short Supply
The Seattle Times ran this article from the Gannett News Service that I think highlights why outsourcing aspects of teaching is inevitable. While districts around the U.S. entice teaching candidates with signing bonuses ($4000), laptops, and gym memberships, the article … Continue reading
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Too Few Overachievers
In this opinion piece, Jay Mathews at the Washington Post draws attention to something most visitors to most high schools in most parts of the developed world would echo: For the vast majority [of high school students], academic stress is … Continue reading
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Editure Thought Leaders Conference
Two days this week I worked with Editure – a new company made from several including myinternet and CSM. Editure and its strategic partners and customers gathered for this first annual Thought Leadership Conference. I am fortunate to work with … Continue reading
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