After a long struggle, we were ready to make a decision. One who had been the strongest advocate for acting pulled their support at the last minute which scuttled it. Now they are complaining no decision was made. Sabotage?
The most flawed educational proposals proceed from the position that education is an engineering problem, and thus we can build educational systems that produce measurable achievement reliably.
I am increasingly intolerant of those who continue to improve schools through old tired ideas that or those that ignore what we know about teaching and learning.
When an educational leader argues that we should follow the philanthropists because “they are paying for it,” that leader loses credibility immediately and permanently.
Research requires multiple data sources. For some research questions, the data exist and the researcher must find it, analyze it, and draw conclusions. For other research questions, the data do not exist and he or she must design methods for collecting it.
Whereas previous generations were prepared for a lifetime consuming and creating information with basic reading and writing skills, digital generations have new devices and new information sources available each year.
Being a digital organization is not about appearing to be connected with what is “cool.” Being a digital organization is about interacting with humans in a manner that they find natural.
Universality is one feature of the web that allows for innovation; anyone can create a service on the web that can then be connected and reconnected by anyone.