Once again, we are shocked (stunned, rocked, blindsided, disoriented…) by the news that our utterly outdated educational system is at best delivering average results compared to other nations. The results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) reported in The New York Times this week were summarized succinctly by Secretary of [...]
keep reading →Good news: I just found a coherent and proven concept for personalized education.
Bad news: it’s in Sweden, offered by Kunskapsskolan, which means “the knowledge school.”
Good news: the KED (Kunskapsskolan Education) program is coming to the United States.
I first met Peg Hoey after she helped launch and run a charter [...]
keep reading →The names Glenn, Ashley and Carol come to mind when I think of what’s right with our educational system. It still attracts amazing human beings like them, who have real compassion, insight, talent and enthusiasm.
Glenn taught two of my three “children.” Ashley just taught my youngest. And one day many years ago, Carol [...]
keep reading →Seth Godin is positioned as a marketing and innovation guru, but secretly he’s just a really smart person. Here’s a recent post from his blog on education:
Two kinds of schooling
Type 1. You can take a class where you learn technique, facts and procedures.
Type 2. You can take a class where you [...]
keep reading →(Book review) – In the midst of chaos, it’s so valuable to discover a calm, assured voice that helps you regain control and sort out what to do next. Allan Collins and Richard Halverson provide that voice for everyone concerned about our educational system.
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution [...]
keep reading →What if the main reason to go to school disappears?
Imagine a time a few years in the future, when individualized e-learning is readily available. You can study any subject, using materials and pacing that perfectly fits not only the way you learn best, but also your goals and schedule. When you need help from [...]
keep reading →This morning I played tennis with a friend of mine in his seventies, and we observed that the way many classrooms function hasn’t changed much since he was a student.
In the meantime, the way we generate, sort, analyze, distribute and share information has changed dramatically. Likewise, the tools we possess to communicate with each [...]
keep reading →“The baby boom, ” says Derrick Chasan of CogniFit, “Is the first generation that both has access to cognitive fitness programs and is aware of the fact that exercising your cognitive abilities helps you keep them sharp.” In other words, use it or lose it.
The problem is that you get very good at what [...]
keep reading →(excerpt) I presented yesterday at the GooglePlex in Mountain View at the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age conference. I was on a panel called “New Learning Designs: Scaling Innovation to Reverse the Dropout Crisis.”
My goal was to paint a picture of 339’s turnaround (so far) and the role technology has played. Keep in [...]
keep reading →Tales of Disruption
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- No More Racing Home to Let Out Your Dog
- How to Get a Girlfriend, circa 2013
- Chatting about iBooks 2 with a Computer?
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- Mission Impossible: Reaching Customer Service
- Paris with a Flexible Phone and a Sweet Tooth
- How Pachube Killed the Big, Slow Firms
- Banshee Construction Copter Robots
- James Bond meets Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
- Are Companies on Other Planets Stupid, Too?
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- 3rd Party Candidate Becomes U.S. President
- Aha! (You Are a Cheating Spouse)
- Machiavellian Virtual Presence
