Category: schoolreform
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Podcast152: Thrive in 2065: Reinventing Schools for the 21st Century
The world is changing fast, and schools need to change appropriately to prepare learners for successful integration into our 21st century economy and society. This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared on May 9, 2007 for the Rotary Club in Duncan, Oklahoma. I focused on key themes in recent books by Tom…
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Video interviews from NCCE 2007
Jeff Allen told me today about a great collection of interviews available online from the Northwest Council for Computer Education 2007 conference. These include interviews with Angus King, Will Richardson, Tony Vincent, Patrick Crispin, Chris Hagel, Brad Patrick, and Annette Lamb. Both the opening keynote by Angus King and closing keynote by Will Richardson (“A…
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Podcast151: Dr. Scott McLeod on Administrator Idea-Sharing via Blogs, Digital Social Networking, and Educating Others for the Transition to 21st Century Schools
This podcast is a skype interview with Dr. Scott McLeod, the director of CASTLE (The Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education) and an educational leadership/educational law professor at the University of Minnesota. Scott has been blogging since August 2006 on “Dangerously Irrelevant,” and has helped start several education team blogging projects…
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Podcast150: Succeeding in the Dream Realization Business: An Interview with Gene Fisher about the Watts Learning Center
This podcast is a skype interview with Gene Fisher, President of the Board of Directors of the Watts Learning Center in South Los Angeles, California. The Watts Learning Center was recently chosen by the California Charter Schools Association as the “Charter School of the Year.” I had the good fortune to meet Gene at a…
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Podcast 149: Reflections on Global Collaboration from Lake Michigan
This is an audio version of a video podcast recorded from the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on April 20, 2007, following the Connecting and Collaborating Conference sponsored by Ottawa Intermediate Schools in Holland, Michigan. In this podcast I reflect on the nature of global collaboration, metaphors of waterways to digital highways, and the importance…
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Collaboration in schools: More reasons we need it
Not everyone is going to be lucky enough to work for an innovative and wildly successful (at least in financial terms) company like Google. Despite that fact, Google’s success and the managerial philosophy of its leaders provide worthwhile object lessons to which more people in business as well as education should pay attention. The May…
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Let’s ask teachers to rethink assessments
Life is generally lived as an “open note” experience. Schools need to focus on preparing students for life, not just for academic tests conducted under artificial conditions that bear little resemblance to the real world outside academia. In line with this idea, rather than banning iPods, cell phones, laptops, and other types of technologies schools…
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Podcast146: The Monroe Doctrine: Effective Practices that Create Excellent Schools (Dr. Lorraine Monroe)
This podcast features a recording of the keynote address by Dr. Lorraine Monroe on April 26, 2007, at the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) annual conference, “Know the Child, Optimize Learning” in Wichita, Kansas. The conference program description of her session is: Dr. Lorraine Monroe, President and CEO of The Lorraine Monroe Leadership Institute…
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Building 21st Century Learners by Kevin Honeycutt
These are my notes from Kevin Honeycutt’s presentation at KSDE2007. Kevin is one of the most creative, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational educators I have ever met. I’m recording his presentation for subsequent publication here as a podcast. Check out his website on http://kevinhoneycutt.org. If you are looking for a dynamite conference presenter that has more…