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Illinois Digital Educators Alliance

2735 Hassert Blvd. Ste. 135 PMB 304

Naperville, IL 60564

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(630) 628-1088

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Illinois Digital Educators Alliance

PO Box 2599

Palatine, IL 60078-2599

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RECENT BLOGS

A New Way Forward

By Brian Lamb, CEO and Co-Founder of Swivl • 24 Apr, 2024
Students need social and emotional skills for school and daily life. Especially today, where technology can manipulate our emotions and erode our social skills unlike ever before. None of this should be controversial. Swivl thinks a new way forward is possible by making reflection a part of every learning activity, for every student, every day. We can explain this best by first explaining the reflective technology we’ve built to enable it.

Infusing Transferable Skills in PBL Projects

By Michelle Hollander, Teq • 17 Apr, 2024
For students, learning needs to feel purposeful and relevant. There are many ways to infuse transferable skills into every lesson, especially project-based learning (PBL) projects.

Reflection: the under-emphasized key to learning

By Brian Lamb with Swivl • 03 Apr, 2024
For centuries we’ve known there are two requirements for learning: engagement and reflection. Modern students experience a massive imbalance between these two requirements. Students’ lives are filled with more engagement than they can handle, and arguably less reflection than they need. The reflection that is part of their school experience is often too limited. Swivl believes a new path forward that addresses these challenges is possible by seeing reflection for what it is: a necessary tool for learning.

Student Advocacy Day: One Day with a Huge Impact

By Greg McDonough • 28 Mar, 2024
President John F. Kennedy once said “Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.” IDEA's Students for Innovation: Advocacy Day exemplifies this quote unlike any other event I have been a part of as an educator. This annual event invites students and their teachers from across Illinois to showcase how they use technology in the classroom at the State Capitol building in Springfield. It’s an incredible opportunity for students to directly speak to their state representatives about the impact technology has had on them, and advocate for more technology in Illinois schools.
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