This video, created by Frank Romanelli (discovered via Kevin Hodgson’s blog – Kevin’s Meandering Mind), struck me as an excellent watch particularly for parents skeptical of the changes happening in the world today as a result of technology. I’m particularly thinking of parents who say things like kids don’t read/write enough, they spend too much […]
Leaders: What conversations are you having?
This morning I was led to a thought-provoking post at the Online Learning Insights blog – How Generation “C” will change education…forever. In the post, the writer shares a report titled The Rise of Generation C: Implications for the World of 2020. I haven’t read the report beyond the executive summary, but there are ideas […]
World’s Greatest Tutor
In the March 12, 2012 edition of Forbes magazine, there is an interesting article about adaptive learning software called Knewton (The World’s Greatest Tutor). Reading the article reminded me that many see learning with technology as taking what normally goes on in brick-and-mortar and putting it online (all too often done in isolation) and stopping […]
Technology for Learning: Add-on or Disruptor
Too often schools buy into “technology” with the expectation that teachers, students and leaders won’t have to change a thing – life can go on – business as usual. Not so fast. Technology is disruptive – not in a negative sense that it causes chaos with everyone and everything out of control; but in a […]
What’s your frame?
As a school leader, you make an incredible amount of decisions – both instructional and operational – in a day, a week, a month, a school year, and certainly over an entire career. Why do you do what you do? Do you reflect on what values and beliefs are at your core as a school […]