Annie Murphy Paul posted a short commentary to a quote from Tony Wagner’s new book “Creating Innovators”. Wagner states that the millennial generation is particularly attuned to treating work as play because they have grown up in a digital world, and that they are more passionate about making a difference in the world than in [...]
More than a year ago, Keith Evans, Head of Collegiate School in Richmond, and one of the brightest, most forward-thinking educators I know, sent me a list of about five metrics that he had created (yes, a bit tongue-in-cheek) to measure true effectiveness of his school. I added to the list. I swear I cannot [...]
In yesterday’s Boston Globe online Mary Carmichael summarizes a new report being released by think tank Ithaka S+R that shows little, if any, difference in learning outcomes between online and face-to-face instruction in higher education. She provides quotes by James McCarthy of Suffolk University, Brit Kirwan, Chancellor of the University of Maryland system, Michael Horn [...]
THE argument of our time in education may be that of content vs context. Every time I talk to a group of faculty, there are those who want to switch off and dive back into their love of the content-rich familiar. Then there are those who pull the other way, like in this thoughtful blog [...]
We have all used the expression “thinking outside of the box”. What do we really mean, how far are we willing to go, how hard are we willing to work, how disruptive are we willing to be, and how much are we willing to change to actually think outside the box? Picture a bridge; on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]