One major difference between school today and schools of the past is that learning can happen anywhere and anytime. In fact, that is a major feature of learning now and for the future no matter what happens. It is also a major feature of work in general but especially for teachers. Blurring the lines between […]
It is human nature to avoid change. We must be very motivated, both invested emotionally and with a solid reason, in order to make a change. The skills needed to meet the needs of learners graduating into the current global economy are substantially different than the skills that many teachers were introduced to in their […]
The education community has frequently been accused of a swinging pendulum effect; implementing one initiative after another and then swinging back to the original. This has caused an inordinate amount of skepticism and apathy amongst long time teachers who don’t believe any innovation is worth implementing since it will just go by the wayside eventually, […]
I was recently in Texas for South by Southwest Edu and I spoke with some teachers who are bound by some very strict instructional limitations because of what they identify as testing requirements. At a recent conference in Baltimore, we heard from someone who was actually docked pay because of test scores. These people always […]
