Shelley Wright’s essay, Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy is a must read, and a possible game changer. She argues that if we want to embed Nth C (21C) skills in our curriculum we can and must start with the most important elements of creativity and work up to the derivations of knowledge. In between she posits a [...]
In her essay for NAIS Independent School Magazine, "Solutionaries Education for a Better World", Zoe Weil provokes us to honestly and thoughtfully answer the question “What is schooling for?” It is a question that many of us are asking, and I want to launch off of several of her key points as real action items that [...]
How fast is the world of education changing? How hard will it be to keep up with this pace? How will we adjust, adopt, adapt and evolve in real time when our traditions are based on months and years of discussion, evaluation, assessment, training, and strategic implementation? Here is a shotgun of radical changes that [...]
We have all had good ideas that have failed to take root. A Tweet from Jamie Baker today reminded me of a GREAT idea that I had that was too radical at the time, but maybe others can take advantage of it. If you are planning a campus building project, big or small, what about [...]
Sam Folk-Williams, Knowledge Program Manager at Red Hat, a major enterprise computing company, wrote a standout piece on leadership for the Management Innovation Exchange. Co-authored by Jim Stikeleather and Michele Zanini, the paper proposes a “dynamic system for measuring an individual’s ‘natural leadership’. They outline three broad areas of leadership that occur largely outside of, [...]
I have been tracking prolific and thoughtful blogs by Annie Murphy Paul on her site, The Brilliant Blog. She provides excellent summaries from a wide range of research and media sources, and two really resonated today: First, she reports on research described by Sarah Hampson in Canada’s Globe and Mail. Two years ago, according to [...]
I hesitate to write this for two reasons. First, I am going to second guess someone who is a lot smarter, seasoned, and more articulate than I am; that is generally a bad idea. And second, I want to wish that he is completely right and I am not. But my gut tells me otherwise. [...]
Finally, we can increase the number and use of computing devices while reducing our classroom technology expense. This has been a promise we have been chasing for more than a decade and it is here, but only if we exert some discipline. Many of us are sharing thoughts about why a 1:1 technology environment will [...]
As I told my Falconer students in the Upper School ASB class last week, effective problem solving requires accurate problem definition. When we think about how to instill 21st Century skills in our students and educational programs, we have immediately defined the problem incorrectly. The skills that we refer to as “21C” have ALWAYS been [...]
The research last week that appears to have busted our ideas about the bell curve of human performance will continue to resonate in many ways (links on last week’s post). Here are two more, prompted by media reviews and Twitter traffic on two important topics. The media was buzzing last week about the Harvard-MIT online [...]