Archive for January, 2009

My-oh-my, have times changed

1/29/2009

Thanks to Jamie Schumacher for passing along the video link: “Imagine [...] turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper.” …and, 28 years later, newspapers are shutting down because they cannot compete with the home computer.


We’re always busy, but doing nothing

1/26/2009

Here’s another look at accelerating change. On Friday, the New York Times published an excellent review of Dalton Conley’s book, Elsewhere U.S.A.: “A new breed of American has arrived on the scene,” Conley, a professor at New York University, declares in “Elsewhere, U.S.A.,” his compact guidebook to our nervous new world. Instead of individuals searching [...]


Hope.

1/20/2009

I just returned from Washington, DC, where, although ticketed, I was not able to attend President Obama’s inauguration. I had a purple ticket. That disappointment aside, change and hope are here. Here are some highlights for what the Obama administration is working on for education: Zero to Five Plan: The Obama-Biden comprehensive “Zero to Five” [...]


Five predictions for 2009 …and more!

1/12/2009

Continuing a tradition that started last year, I am listing my predictions for the big stories that will impact the education world in 2009.  My predictions from last year were hit-and-miss, but I did well overall.  How will I fare this year? No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind.  Contrary to all the data [...]


“Innovation in the field of innovation”

1/6/2009

I received feedback from several readers that Arthur Harkins’ reasoning for why we need to Leapfrog might seem a bit too Machiavellian — “us versus them.” I therefore hope everybody will enjoy the contrast of perspective in this next video. In early November, we had an opportunity to interview Jutta Treviranus, director of the Adaptive [...]


Oops.

1/4/2009

If you tried contacting me through this site’s contact form over the past month, chances are I didn’t get the message. I discovered the problem this morning, and fixed it immediately. I apologize if you recently sent me a message, and if I never replied. The problem stems from the site’s recent software update, which [...]


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Upcoming ULA workshop: Leadership, Efficacy, and a Culture of Trust

Leadership, Efficacy, and a Culture of Trust: Key Findings from Learning from Leadership Research Kyla Wahlstrom, University of Minnesota Kyla Wahlstrom, Ph.D., will present findings from Learning from District Efforts to Strengthen Education Leadership, a five-year research study funded by the Wallace Foundation designed to produce empirical evidence establishing the connection between leader performance and [...]


Cyber society

From the IST program: If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software agents will potentially evolve their own culture, we could be about to find out. [...]


Solution Watch: Comment tracking with coComment

Solution Watch writes about coComment: The way it works is very simple. When you signup to coComment, you are given a bookmarklet that you are asked to add to your browser. Then, the next time you come across a blog post that you want to comment on, click on the bookmarklet before commenting. You will [...]


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