http://www.educationfutures.com The future of education in an era of accelerating change Wed, 14 May 2008 12:35:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our third item this week on the United States' unstable orbit around mediocrity is a repost of our top ten list of how U.S. education is failing to create students that will succeed in creative, knowledge- and innovation-based economies (first published last June). We apologize for beating a dead horse, ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/14/repost-10-ways-us-education-is-failing-to-produce-creatives/ Our second post this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity focuses on Matt Miller's critique of education in America from the January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly: "First, kill all the school boards." He writes that "local control has become a disaster for our schools" and that school ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/13/no-problem-left-behind/ In our first post this week on the United States' unstable orbit around mediocrity, we present a short set of slides on how No Child Left Behind is endangering America's ability to compete academically. (To view a larger version, download the file here.) | View | Upload your own Next ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/12/all-children-left-behind/ The Boston Globe assembled a list of "eight reasons why this is the dumbest generation." They write: Author Mark Bauerlein aims to provoke in his new book, "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future" (Tarcher/Penguin). Do you agree? Take a look at eight ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/11/the-dumbest-generation/ The European Patent Office engaged in a two-year futuring project on futures for intellectual property rights in 2025, interviewing 50 key players - including critics - from the fields of science, business, politics, ethics, economics and law. Their opinions were sought opinions on how intellectual property and patenting might ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/08/intellectual-property-rights-in-2025/ 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 ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/05/geeks-and-entrepreneurs-of-minnesota-unite/ David Brooks wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today's New York Times. He states that individuals cannot be successful in a globalized world without building advanced capabilities to transform information into meaningful knowledge: The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/05/02/brooks-on-the-cognitive-age/ After University Relations flatly rejected the "Goldie the Leapfrog" logo with a gopher head pasted onto a frog body, I started to play around with a new idea that is probably more likely to conform to University of Minnesota image standards: Please let me know what you think! The resultant ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/04/30/a-new-look-for-leapfrog-institutes/ A "C" average nation. From Angela Maiers' blog: The 2008 State Technology Grades have been released. This State Technology Report is a joint project of Education Week and the EPE Research Center. Each state was surveyed to assess the status of K-12 educational technology across the nation ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/04/28/2008-state-technology-grades-released/ At yesterday's Horizon Forum meeting at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Steve O'Conner, Director of Instructional Services for Owatonna Public Schools, presented an overview of an initiative in a classroom in Washington Elementary School where a fifth grade classroom has gone mostly ... http://www.educationfutures.com/2008/04/25/owatonnas-model-for-the-21st-century/