Tag: Technology

Boards and superintendents, legislators and governors are about to feel the big push for digital learning. But how will this happen? There needs to be a strategy.

The New York Times recently described the many schools now starting to run pilot projects with iPads. Will they stick?

Waiting for Superman has really drawn attention to the hunger that families have for good schools. Bill Gates (and others) talk in the documentary about the DC education system as something that does things, rather than a collection of people doing things. But if the goal is to have more good schools like those that parents in the movie want to go to, how will this be done?

The development and interest in iPads is another demonstration of how advanced electronics have become, and are working their way into the lives of so many people today. But we also need to re-imagine what is possible with schooling. Is the job of teacher about compliance, or rethinking learning? Is the task of running a school about compliance, or about rethinking operations to work best?