Once again, I have found a way to visit a remarkable school, share the details with all of you, and NOT pack my Prius and drive around the country. EdJourney continues, this time with a charter school that is pioneering and sharing a remarkable arc of student-owned, differentiated, competency-based learning, and doing it with a [...]
Institute For The Future, based in Palo Alto, CA Following my great Skype yesterday with Sean Ness (@seanness)and Devin Fidler (@devinfidler) of the Institue For The Future, they were kind enough to highlight a number of their publicly available resources that relate to the future of education and learning. I will certainly be [...]
Why don't all schools look and act like MC2? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bRuooDyp1g0#at=307 Many reasons: class size, teacher loads, budgets, inertia, fear of the unknown, diverse student backgrounds, lack of community support, lack of understanding about what is possible, and more. Why aren't all schools trying to be MORE like this? Beats me.
I feel I am back on my EdJourney, but this time I did not have to get in my Prius and drive around the country. This time I sat at my kitchen table and talked for an hour about how a public school district is moving on the innovation pathway just as effectively and swiftly [...]
I don't do this often, but the Twitter feed is alive today with ideas about creativity, trans-disciplinary study, and idea generation, so I am going to re-post a blog from last year: Many of us are talking about the need to shift learning in the direction of creation, rather than consumption, of knowledge. Students and [...]
The synergistic connections just keep flying in! My friend Glyn Cowlishaw (@PDSHead), head of Providence Day School in Charlotte just Tweeted a link to a BBC article on the great Kursk tank battle 70 years ago involving 9,000 German and Soviet tanks. Glyn asked "Will there ever be another large scale tank battle?" My response: [...]
This is a teaser of things to come, but I could not keep it to myself. Over the last few months I have conducted workshops attended by hundreds of educators: teachers, business officers, and school CEO's. One of our collaborative exercises is to look critically at this institution we call "school" and ask what aspects are utterly [...]
Looking for something to start off the school year, put up on a big screen, turn the volume way up, get a smile on everyone's face and feel that, yep, there is a reason to come to work each day and feel a ray of optimism in this crazy, fast, thorny world? Here's my nomination! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
In the long march of human civilization there has, in just the last few hundred years, developed a line of demarcation that will prove the success or failure of human societies in the future. It is not a line between rich and poor, liberal or conservative, north and south, Occident and Orient, or believer (of [...]
The annual NMC Horizon Report for K12 schools, a comprehensive forecast of what technologies will most impact K12 education in the next 1-5 years. What I enjoyed seeing this year is that we are recognizing that technology will become less a driver of education than a facilitator of learning. I also think that the Horizon [...]