Schools are big ships. Sometimes ships do exactly what they're supposed to. Sometimes they run aground or sink. Sometimes old ships don't really work as well as new ones, other times the old ones bring something qualitatively wonderful. All these ships have a couple of things in common. First, if they're not heading to a [...]
"Arrest this man, he talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio." I swore I'd never do it. I swore I'd never unleash a quaint little memory device to simplify a process that otherwise demands a decent serving of your attention. But here we are, and truth be told, I'm [...]
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 [...]
I'd like to make it blazingly clear right up front that I'm not in the business of ragging on school systems. The schools I'm writing about are both beautiful places full of fantastic people. They do what they do with their students' future at the very front of their minds. This isn't about tearing down [...]
Last week I attended a workshop that drew together Challenge Based Learning, online learning, and Ruben Puentedura's SAMR model of technology adoption. As always, there was a lot of conversation around how applications of different technologies to learning in context is classified as Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and the big elusive one, Redefinition. To me, this video [...]
