A Leadership Vacuum?
Yesterday, eSchool News, the online K20 ed tech journal, asks if ed-tech firms are now shaping educational policy: Ed-tech firms
Tag archive for why?
Education ain’t broke so don’t fix it.
Smack in the middle of a conversation with a colleague it occured to me with a flush of embarrassment that
Taking the (too) short-view of education reform.
In a recent blog post, online learning insights, quotes former Harvard president Lawrence Summers saying education changes little over time.
The ∞:1 program, or why your 1:1 initiative is short-sighted.
Read Rick McManus in Read Write Web: Get Ready for the World of Connected Devices I had a couple conversations
Questions from the borderless workplace.
OK, I never bought the idea that school is about readying people for a career. It is, but only as
Another old idea whose time has come
Bill Ferriter (aka @plugusin) reports from Educon: What if we had a culture of “Do” instead of “Know?” Well, you
Rewiring the IT Department – part 3: We’ve built IT upside down.
The central problem with school IT infrastrucuture is that it is set up to support administration, not teaching and learning.
Can social media work in schools? This is a conceptual problem, not a practical or prudential one
The problems associated with bringing social media into schools are neither practical or prudential ones. The problem–singular–is a conceptual one:
We’re social creatures. So get on with getting social media into schools.
(Source: http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/01/students-want-social-media-in-schools/) This is the best balanced look at the issues around using social media in schools I’ve seen yet.
What if we thought of schools as creative houses?
Just a thought… As education becomes more social, more collaborative, deos it still make sense to think of student work