Category: schoolreform
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The Monroe Doctrine: Effective Practices that Create Excellent Schools
My notes from Dr. Lorraine Monroe’s keynote at the KSDE conference on 4-26-2007 in Wichita, Kansas. That is what we are all about in this room: The cultivation of children Never ask me to follow a kids’ act. It is too hard! Good morning, I’ve already run out of time. Thank you for having me…
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Encouraging empathy to address multiple challenges
We need to focus more on encouraging the development of empathy in our own lives and the lives of learners with whom we live and work. Mary Gordon has founded the remarkable “Roots of Empathy” project in Canada which: …is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and…
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Advice for designing the school of the future
I recently posted on a closed forum to a question someone asked about designing a school of the future. The following was my reply: When it comes to designing the school of the future, my encouragement would be to rethink school as well as technology use. I have been using a lens of thinking about…
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Margaret Spellings is under fire
[Day 3 of my guest blogging…] U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the Reading First corruption scandal, challenges to the reauthorization of NCLB, and blowback from the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, apparently Secretary Spellings also is receiving…
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Don’t hold your breath
[Thanks, Wesley, for the opportunity to be a guest blogger at Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll do my best to live up to the challenge of blogging for a larger audience than I typically get at Dangerously Irrelevant.] One of the key beliefs of many edubloggers and educational technology enthusiasts is that digital…
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Good teaching with technology DOES make a difference
Today’s AP article “Study eyes effect of tech on classroom” is yet another example of media oversimplification of “wicked challenges” that are faced by teachers every day, particularly when it comes to the use of educational technology. According to the article: Going high-tech doesn’t lead to higher math and reading scores, according to a federal…
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Podcast142: Rethinking Teaching: How Online Learning Can and Should Completely Alter Your View of Education (Roger C. Schank)
This podcast features a recording of the keynote address by Roger C. Schank at the SITE 2007 conference in San Antonio, Texas, on March 26, 2007. The abstract of Roger’s keynote was: Modern technology seems to have influenced every area of our society, but it has had very little effect on our conceptions of teaching…
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Changing Schools: A conversation with Roger Schank
These are my notes from a conversation with Roger Shank after his keynote presentation at SITE 2007. There is no way we are going to get governments to do this. (Roger told story of Engineering design experience with Boeing engineer who had the wrong perspective.) Curriculum for building a 747 in the course of a…
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Rethinking Teaching: How Online Learning Can and Should Completely Alter Your View of Education
These are my notes from the keynote “Teaching In the New Era” by Roger Schank (Socratic Arts, USA) at SITE 2007. Read more about him on the WikiPedia article about him and in the multitude of sites that come up from a Google search for his name. I consider myself a fulltime educational revolutionary right…
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Seven evils of education?
In Roger Schank’s Nov 2006 column “The 7th P” he adds “professors” to the previous “Six P’s of “evils” in education (Parents, Publishers, Press, Politicians, and Princeton 2 times) he has identified. He wrote: I knew I quit the university for a reason. The other day I was reminded why. I was running one of…