Was really sorry to be travelling when you visited ISB recently. Just to continue the conversation, you might like to take a look at a recent article Kevin and I have written for an upcoming feature in the Telegraph newspaper on International Education and the future of schools. Faced with new technologies, our questions were: what will change? what will stay the same? and how will international schools fare in the new pedagogical horizon.

You can check it out here: http://davidwillows.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/10/international-education-and-the-future-of-our-schools.html

Thanks for posting this, as I am in midst of preparing for an upcoming presentation on school change. Your three questions at the end really frame most of what I plan on talking about. The first is most pressing for me. Depending on what and who you read these days, the role of teacher in the classroom will look markedly different than what we see today. That’s a scary thought for many who are in that role, for two reasons. First, anyone who comes to you and introduces change or the promise of it is going to cause uneasiness. Secondly, the sense that the change is happening, is beyond their control, and will lack their input and expertise separates them from it. That’s not what seems to happening at ISB.