We’re dealing with 100-year-old conditions in American classrooms today that simply have not changed. There have been changes in educational standards and assessments, but what goes on in the classroom hasn’t changed. This goes to the heart of the teacher’s work life....
As we seek to bring more effective technology into the classroom, we have to make sure that the problem we’ve defined aligns with the problem that educators want to solve. Once we’re on the same page, it becomes a lot easier to provide the support that’s required to...
Myriad challenges hamper efforts to scale classroom success. First, vision. Envisioning what a transformed learning environment will look and feel like is difficult! As adults, we have about 15,000 hours of muscle memory from our own schooling experience and,...
I like technology, and I strongly believe it has an integral place in education. I’ve believed this for decades, ever since I wrote my doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1970’s on how kids learn using computers. Technology helps children think about how to solve...
In looking at schools and technology from a systems perspective, I always try to remember that a school system is a sub-system of our broader society. When you filter things this way, you realize that there are a number of major societal forces converging on our...
