Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

Reprinted with permission from Born Digital by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (Perseus Books, 2008). Digital Natives are certainly experimenting with multiple identities. Sometimes, they are recreating or amplifying aspects of their real-space identities when they go...

Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

Technology Replacing Upgrading Teachers

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. He is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. Our generation is not the first time technological advances have...

Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making*

Monica Rozenfeld is a freelance writer and works for a Jewish non-profit committed to innovation and best practices in Jewish education. She is the founder of TheJewSpot.org, her labor of love, interviewing the innovative and provocative of the tribe. Jonathan S....

Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

the fut.ure of edu.cat.ion

Eli Kannai is Chief Educational Technology Officer of the AVI CHAI foundation. Previously, he was Director of The Snunit Center for Web Based Learning, one of Israel’s premier e-learning and information architecture incubators. In this article, he envisions the...

Getting the Discussion Started: Born Digital

Torah on the Right Side of the Brain

Shifra Kaufman is a graduate of Stern College for Women and the Pardes Educators Program.She currently teaches 5th and 6th grades at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital. In this article, she describes how to integrate technology and the creative part...

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

Although I have been an educator for nearly thirty years, I still do not have a high school diploma – and am proud of it. First, some context. After New York's hot, turbulent summers of the 1960s, the city started a variety of programs to keep kids off the streets in...

Editor’s Introduction

Building Blocks for an Ethics-based Community

Joan S. Kaye, Ed.D., served as CEO of the Orange County, CA, Bureau of Jewish Education and is an adjunct faculty member at Pepperdine University. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she completed her doctorate in organizational leadership at...

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