Scott Kinney, Senior Vice President at Discover Education, joined us at ISTE 2014 in Atlanta to talk about their approach to innovation and more importantly student engagement. Kinney shares his opinion on the role media plays in new educational environments and how teachers should be supported to effectively deploy these services. Kinney's affable nature gives ...
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Wow, I have always enjoyed watching programs on Discovery Channel. Education becomes all the more effective when you have all the benefits of Educational Technology. This is an incredible attempt to take the classroom to the homes! Yes, you can't do without formal education, and the teacher, but then you can at least make the process even more powerful, effective and magical! An important take away for me, is that technology can transform pedagogy to a great extent. I am glad that Scott Kinney has spoken about the Common Core State Standards, and the importance of differentiation. I hope that Discovery Channel will come up with more and more interesting programs!