We've been developing a program called Future Learning at work in some form over the last 3 years, and in its current incarnation for the last six months or so. It's grown from a series of interesting workshops on disruption and innovation for school leaders to a full-blown planning process aimed at helping schools pull the emergency [...]
I've been very, very fortunate these last few months. My job is pretty much at the point where I have an immense amount of control over what it looks like, and what is a big picture priority. I'm well aware of how rare this is and immensely grateful that I work somewhere that puts the [...]
[VIDEO: James Surowiecki discusses the notion of trusting eyewitnesses via social media, crosschecked by the topic they're posting under. Not essential viewing, but a great primer. Here he is talking about the Wisdom of Crowds at #21clhk] The more I connect with lively, innovative educators outside of my hometown the more I find my feet getting [...]
I've recently started (again, a little late to the party) using some social bookmarking (Find me on Diigo!) so in the interest of making sure I read everything I bookmark and process it a little bit deeper than I would ordinary bedtime read, I'm going to start doing this monthly - a review [...]
I spent the week before last taking a pile of courses in London, and I seriously do not remember the last time I had a week that intense. So much formal learning crammed in, in structured classroom type ways, in looser project-based ways, and in lecture-style ways. It was so refreshing to not work [...]
