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Time to Change

Last evening I happened onto #ISEDchat on Twitter because Josie Holford a and a few others who are on my most closely watched comments list were participating.  The discussion was about use of time in schools, particularly class schedules.  Josie asked "Is there any school out there still stuck in the 45 or 55 minute [...]

By | 2013-08-02T13:57:18+00:00 August 2nd, 2013|Innovation in Education|1 Comment

Are You Looking Ahead Re BYOD?

Katrina Schwartz (@kschwart) on Mindshift reports on the  annual Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 2013 Vision K-20 survey of use of technology in education.  I always look for the dissonance as the place to start solving problems, so this bit shouted out to me: Almost half of all secondary schools allow students to bring their own devices now and [...]

Unleashing Jack

School should be about unleashing, not leashing.  Our future is in the synergy where wildly creative teachers meet student superstar Jack Andraka. Read on! #DTk12chat, a group of teachers and administrators who recognize the remarkable learning value embedded in the design thinking process.  (The group meets remotely every week; feel free to join in.)  It [...]

Map of The American Dream

This map and work by Harvard's Raj Chetty and others has received massive attention, as it should. There is a lot to mine from this work. The big takeaways of the authors: 1. Mobility is heavily tied to the proximity of poor and wealthier people; in other words, where population remains segregated along economic lines, [...]

By | 2013-07-23T14:47:14+00:00 July 23rd, 2013|Governance and leadership|0 Comments

Student-Owned Differentiated Learning, Low $$: MC2 School, NH.

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 [...]

Congruent Thinking on Future of K12 via IFTF.org

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 [...]

By | 2013-07-16T17:04:16+00:00 July 16th, 2013|21C Skills, Innovation in Education|3 Comments

Why Don’t All Schools Look Like MC2?

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.

By | 2013-07-13T15:33:29+00:00 July 13th, 2013|Innovation in Education|0 Comments