Again, Education Futures joins millions of educators and policy leaders around the world in taking a little time off this summer. We are not going to completely disappear, but we will have a reduced publishing schedule. When we fire up again in August, expect a few more enhancements, including an interview series with big thinkers [...]

Education Futures returns to normal production this month with a cleaner look, less bloat, and more space for articles.  A little internal reorganization is also on the way. We will also produce more original content, including a weekly video to start off the week on each Monday.  Expect more great stuff soon –including an invitation [...]

Graeme Thickins reminds us that the Minnebar barcamp is coming up on Saturday, May 10! As noted a couple months ago, barcamps are open access, user-generated conferences. Aside from all the great discussion and networking to be had, MinneBar includes free breakfast, lunch, afternoon appetizers, evening drinks, and a commemorative t-shirt. The list of sessions [...]

Caption: Working late into this evening, the instructional team in Minnesota, Mexico, Ecuador and Chile (that’s a span of nearly 9,000 km among the conferencing sites!) tests various video and audio conferencing connections. Comments

Sometimes pictures are worth more than a thousand words. Here’s a photo recap from the past week in China…   Shanghai at night Conference poster at Anqing Teachers College I present my stuff with translation help from Wu Jian (“Johnson”) At the Huang Mei Opera Meeting with Anqing Teachers College leaders Comments