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: Soapbox
Visiting Northern Beaches Christian School
Died and Gone to Heaven NBCS Yesterday I finally got around to something I’ve been meaning to do for over a year. Ages ago, I began hearing through the grapevine of a school in northern Sydney that was really taking … Continue reading
“Buy Focals”
File Under: You Heard it Here First Over the years I’ve come up with a few “clever coinings” for phrases that capture some new aspect of our technology-enmeshed world. I swear I was the first person I knew to use … Continue reading
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Schizophrenic Ed
File this post in the “It would be funny if it weren’t so sad” category. Today’s ASCD’s email “SmartBrief” inadvertently juxtaposes two articles that highlight for me exactly what drives me crazy: Here are the links: Connected Test-Taking Pupils face … Continue reading
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Education: We’re in the Humanity Business
The following is a passage from a book I’m working on. I wrote it this morning and thought I’d share it to see if people have any comments. Thanks, Tom – <soapbox> Clearly we can’t simply drop even the best … Continue reading
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