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. There is lots of value in this book and a great deal of information that validates what we know about good leadership and strong school organizations. My short recommendation? What I liked about the book.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

After serving as a teacher, a principal and, currently, the director of technology and innovation at University City School District outside of greater St. Robert Dillon, director of technology and innovation at University City School District. We need to be thoughtful about that purchase for schools. Photo courtesy of Linkedin.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Participant device prerequisites. Presenters. Scott McLeod, J.D., Shift Happens).

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Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Some approaches to these problems may be policy-related, like funding or charter schools versus public schools, but it sounds like some of them are related to course design, or are technology-related? You don't go to school to learn how to tie a shoelace. What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s a big problem that is slowing change in college teaching, argued Wind, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and one of the organizers of the conference. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amidst the chaos of 2020 we lost a true leader in education in late August just as schools were trying to reopen. So, of course, the relationship between schools and creativity, and the embedded story of a young dancer, is perhaps Sir Ken’s most defining message. Nearly nine out of ten students graduate high school.

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