Andrew Vicars, one of our COETAIL participants, wrote a blog post that I was going to leave a comment on but then it got to a point where it needed its own blog post as it’s a conversation that continues to be talked about. It’s a conversation with many different points of view and so I thought I would add […]
My thoughts after reading Seth Godin’s post Back to (the wrong) school and Douglas Rushkoff post Are Jobs Obsolete? The other day I was looking at a curriculum map similar to this one: As I was looking over it I started shaking my head and wondering how do we personalize education in a standardized system? […]
You know when you’ve been thinking something for awhile but it’s not very popular so you never say anything…..and then there’s a conversation that gets you going and before you know it…things just come out? OK….so maybe this doesn’t happen to you…but it does to me….often actually. Think before I speak is something I obviously need to work on. […]
If technology is a tool…and we all agree it’s a tool right? Then why the heck do we need standards for it? What are we trying to prove? If you have a technology class..then yes there should be skills (a.k.a. standards) you are trying to teach students. But…if it’s just a tool in the classroom that we’re using to produce […]