Let your mind wonder for just a moment. As yourself this question: If I could redesign an entire teacher education program, what would it look like? Here is my vision of a teacher education program. I imagine a teacher preparation program that: Challenges the individual. No one in this program would say “But I thought [...]
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Introducing Maya Frost, guest blogger
I am delighted to announce that Maya Frost will join Education Futures this week as a guest blogger. Maya Frost has taught thousands of people how to get calm, clear and creative. Her eyes-wide-open approach to everyday awareness has been featured in over a hundred print and web media outlets worldwide, ranging from Ladies’ Home [...]
Jayson Richardson returns as guest blogger
For the week of October 12, Dr. Jayson Richardson will return to Education Futures as a guest blogger. (I will be away in China.) Jayson is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His research interests include international / intercultural education and global [...]
Introducing Ai Takeuchi, guest blogger
Ai Takeuchi recently completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration. Her research interests focus on international development with a special interest in gender issues and international study and training. In her study, Dr. Takeuchi explored the issues related to post study-abroad for Asian women. She [...]
Introducing Jeffrey Schulz, guest blogger
Jeffrey Schulz is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in Educational Policy and Administration with heavy leanings toward Comparative International Development of Education. His research interests lie in the futures of education, particularly at the secondary level. Additionally, he has extensive teaching experience in urban education, and is currently working for BlueSky Charter [...]
Introducing Jayson Richardson, guest blogger
Dr. Jayson W. Richardson is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota with a focus on comparative and international development education. His research interests include information and communication technology for development and technology leadership in less developed nations. He conducted his dissertation research on an ICT in education project while working at UNESCO in [...]
Introducing Brock Dubbels, guest blogger
Brock Dubbels, a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota is joining Education Futures for the next week or so as a guest blogger. Brock brings nearly two decades of experience in education and instructional design, exploring new technologies for assessment, delivering content, creating engagement with learners, and investigating ways people [...]
Introducing Arthur Harkins
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Arthur Harkins is teaming with me at Education Futures as a regular blogger. A short bio: Arthur is an associate professor in international development education at the University of Minnesota and faculty director of the University’s graduate certificate in Innovation Studies. Arthur’s major interests lie in converging technologies [...]
Adaptive learners matching the changing environment
Famous for changing the color of their skin, chameleons are more like mood rings, with their color changes reflecting mood, temperature, light, and other stimuli. Based in the analysis of Hatano (1982), Brophy, Hodge, Bransford (2004) wrote a short and interesting work in progress where they analyzed the idea of adaptive expertise as the “ability [...]
Introducing Cristobal Cobo, guest blogger
Dr. Cristóbal Cobo, professor and director of communications at FLACSO-México is joining Education Futures over the next week or so as a guest blogger. He is no stranger to blogging, and is the author of e-rgonomic, which explores human-web interactions. Cristóbal studied his Ph.D. in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. In addition he has been [...]
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