Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity – TED 2006
Blog posts
- The Education Bubble – Apr 2011
- The clue is in the i of iPad – Feb 2010
- When virtual training trumps classrooms – Jul 2009
- Exploring virtual worlds – Jun 2009
- Do books matter? – May 2008
- A vision of students today – Mar 2008
- What comes next? – Jan 2008
- KPA – the new KPI? – Oct 2005
- A portal won’t slay the dragon – Oct 2005
- 9 brain rules for education – Dec 2004
Soundbites
What makes a great teacher? – The Atlantic, Jan 2010
Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but the school, statistically speaking, does not matter as much as which adult stands in front of their children. Teacher quality tends to vary more within schools—even supposedly good schools—than among schools. – In depth study into differences in teaching and why it matters.
The New Literacy – Clive Thompson, Wired, Aug 2009
Technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it… young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.
Educators take Web 2.0 to school – Larry Magid, CNet, Jul 2009
Rather than fight the idea of students using the Web to communicate with each other, the presenters at this event were encouraging it. Chris Lehman, the principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, talked about the use of interactive technology in schools as part of a “collaborative culture” that he says is likely to be with us for a long time.
“Whether it’s a wiki or Twitter, the notion of a participatory culture–upstream and downstream–is not going away,” he told the audience.
Why I am not a professor: the decline and fall of the British University – Dr Mark Tarva, 2007
Universities are extraordinary institutions. They are in fact, the last bastions of mediaevalism left in modern society outside, perhaps, the church. Like churches they attracted a certain type of person who did not share the values of the commercial world. Poor communication, expensive reading materials and illiteracy were the foundation blocks for the universities. If today we have excellent communications, free online information and general literacy, we also have an environment in which the universities are struggling to maintain their position.
Links
- Mechanics Online – MIT free online course incl. self-test before you try
