The best way to evaluate research or writing (or any other cognitive activity) is by reflecting on questions you have when you leave the work. The works that leave the most interesting questions are the most valuable.
While access to IT devices has increased, access to excellent technology-rich curriculum and to the educational benefits of good and well-used technologies is not as widespread as devices are.
Educators are quick to adopt the “precautionary principle;” thus they reason, “Until we are sure this new technology is best, we will continue with what we have been doing.”
Giving student experience participating in creating knowledge, evaluating the knowledge created by others, and finding new uses of IT and new types of knowledge, are all aspects of the information technology-rich landscape that we cannot accomplish if our schools are still structured for print.
Especially in this century, education has become the focus of much political attention. Government agencies, politicians, and philanthropists are all much more influential in determining educational policy and practice than they were in previous generations.
I'm looking back at a career's worth of initiatives. Sometimes the money comes before the commitment; sometime the commitment comes before the money. Success requires these coincide, but that is a rare feat for leaders.
In organizations, members experience initiative fatigue; there are so many things, they lose interest in all of them. Leaders experience it too; there support for each slowly erodes.