eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

Acknowledge that old mental models exist. Schools need to acknowledge that there are a variety of old mental models of learning and traditional schooling that parents bring to the table. Counselors, social workers, support groups, and outside partnerships have an opportunity to impact the entire school culture.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The mental model of how schools are organized is very strong, especially when it comes to staffing,” says Bryan Hassel, the co-president of Public Impact, which authored the report along with the Clayton Christensen Institute. “So So changing that requires some effort.” Yet the authors found challenges as well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Given the pace of change in higher education today, it should come as no surprise that colleges and universities are investing in research and development labs dedicated to academic and business-model innovation. Done right, these labs have the potential to transform institutional cultures. We identify dependencies and assumptions.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. You see students taken away from more meaningful learning experiences and kind of plugged into computer screens where it's basically a flashcard. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

This post is a review of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today by Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray. They are: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered. My short recommendation?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It It does not take into account all of the developments that we know about the way people learn.” She agreed that change must be cultural as well as architectural. “I There need to be shifts in pedagogy.”

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