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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I just read an important recent post by my friend Jonathan Martin and will not reprise it all here. But I want to re-post the video he included from the ATC21S working group. It was not long after I first heard the term "21st Century skills" and realized it referred to the kind of transformative learning [...]
Democracy, discomfort, courage, and educational innovation collided last night. What is in a name? I have been working with a team from the Poway Unified School District. Their charge: open a new K-8 school in 2014 with a mission that has four key words: Design, Learning, Creative, Future. It will be the first "choice" school [...]
As I am writing chapters to my book and an article for Independent School Magazine, I find threads from both inside and outside of education weaving together into a tapestry of future vision that is both exciting and inevitable. I came across two more such threads today, or more accurately confirmation of threads from two [...]
Somewhere hovering in the open rafters of a large design space at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, the ghosts of my fictional protagonists from The Falconer, Mr. Usher and Sunny/Sun Tzu sat and had a cup of tea today. They don’t have Twitter accounts so we can’t follow their thoughts, but we know they listened with [...]