Three Horizon Framework, Pt. 2: The Toughest Horizon
August 4, 2012I am writing a short three-part blog that reviews the Three Horizon framework for innovation that Paul Hobcraft detailed in the last few days. The first post focused on the first horizon, finding ways to enhance value in existing programs that are close to our core business. The next horizon is, frankly, the most challenging…
Three Horizons of Innovation: Important Framework for Schools
August 3, 2012Innovation is a simple word. Gets thrown around a lot. We all want to be innovative. The fact is that true innovation, the creation and implementation of new ideas that bring true value to our organizations, is hard. Real innovation will always get stuck on the back burner as we are overwhelmed by the stress…
Leadership Does Not Fit On a Cocktail Napkin
July 31, 2012I have been so fortunate to be associated with the Behavioral Science and Leadership Department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the last two years. For two summers I hosted groups of cadets in San Diego for my Falconer seminar. Last year, the cadets signed a copy of a book for me…
Assumptions, Silos, Context, and China: Four Good Reads
July 30, 2012The secular world should realize that the closest thing we have to a multi-cultural meeting of faith and souls only occurs once each two years, and we should all take the Olympics fortnight off as a global vacation. Guess not; back to work (but the iPad and London streams are close at hand!) Catching up…
Khan Critics Miss the Point
July 26, 2012Valerie Strauss in the The Answer Sheet on WashingtonPost.com has been running an intensive point-counterpoint about the quality, and even the validity of Khan Academy. Experts in both math and teaching find KA lacking on a number of fronts: accuracy, effectiveness, method, and basic pedagogy. I am not going to reprise the argument here; they…
The Zen of Educational Technology
July 25, 2012Yesterday Jonathan Martin posted a wonderful piece on the tension between using technology as a necessary and critical part of modern education, and the inevitable hard-wired connection that we are all developing to and with these tools. We all feel this, for our students and for ourselves. We want and need to be connected to…
Warriors Wanted
July 24, 2012Dreaming is easy. Turning dreams into reality is hard. Turning really big dreams into reality is the hardest; this is the path of the warrior. Turning education from the industrial age to the future is one of those big dreams. Therefore, by the immutable rules of logic, we need warriors. The warrior is a parent,…
Desert Hallelujah
July 21, 2012Maybe because the summer heat has hit even San Diego, maybe in sympathy of the drought in the rest of the country, I thought I would share this piece, one of my “California In Spring” series I have written on short breaks over the last four years. If you have never been alone deep in…
A Game Changer for First Day of Class
July 20, 2012The new school year is not far away. Teachers are thinking about their first day. Innovative teachers are thinking “How can I start of this year differently? How can I truly start to shift the learning experience? How will my class this year be more focused on the critical skills we need our students to…
It Really Comes Down to Two Things
July 17, 2012I have been working on presentations for the fall, and these two slides encapsulate so much of what K-12 needs to be worrying about; I wanted to share them. Programmatically we have to re-imagine what learning means; this will an ongoing, never-ending process that has to take place much more rapidly than it does now.…
Flipping Our Minds, Not Just Our Classes
July 14, 2012Let’s be clear: the flipped classroom is a great teaching tool that takes advantage of emerging technologies. Flipping education should be our real goal, and it has less to do with technology than with mindset. This new word “flipped” in our common education lexicon is both useful and appropriate, but what does it really mean? …
The Power of “What If?” in Innovation
July 12, 2012Active learning starts with finding questions, not answers; that concept was miles ahead of the bleeding edge three decades ago but now seems to have gained acceptance. In preparing two workshop facilitations for the fall, I sat down yesterday to generate some question lists to help prime the pumps, and it sort of got away…
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