I just returned from spending a few days listening and learning as I led a district through a comprehensive technology assessment. As part of the assessment, I facilitated several focus groups with teachers and administrators. In one of the focus groups two student teachers sat in with their supervising teachers. The teachers, in [...]
Archive for January, 2008
New Teachers Coming to Transform Our Schools?
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Learning, Learning Styles, Teachers, Transformation on January 30, 2008 | 26 Comments »
Fact or Fiction? Are Older Teachers Slow to Adopt Technology?
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Research, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Learning, Teachers, Transformation on January 27, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Older teachers are slowing the pace of technology change. As new, and younger teachers enter our schools we’ll begin to see the “real” transformations begin.
Thoughts like this get repeated so often that they go unchallenged. Take a look at “Can Older Teachers Learn New Tricks”; “Young Teachers Are More Effective Than Older Ones”
There is not [...]
Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Teachers, Transformation, journeys on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
we have this incredible technology…
..like a brand new car. we are really excited by it. but we leave it in the driveway because we are always working on it. we want to put new rims on. upgrade the speakers, soup up the engine, new shocks, new this, new that…if we take it out, we take [...]
Applied Awareness
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning, Teachers, Transformation on January 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In one of this year’s outstanding leadership books, “Apples Are Square”, authors Susan and Thomas Kuczmarski interviewed Lambert & Associates vice-president of Client Affairs, Brian Sorge
So many people lack what I call applied awareness. You can give me all the awareness in the world, but you also have to be able to translate that into [...]
Is Mandating Technology Use Enough?
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Learning, Teachers, Transformation on January 14, 2008 | 64 Comments »
In a recent blog post Scott Mcleod asks the question,
“…can anyone else think of an employment sector other than K-12 and
postsecondary education where employees have the right to refuse to use technology?”
It’s a great question and it provoked some good discussion; however is mandating technology use enough? Will it create the pedagogical changes we want, [...]
What Makes a New Subject Interesting?
Posted in Educational Research, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Learning, Statistics on January 10, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I was cleaning out some old folders on my hard drive and came across this interesting USA Today poll result that I’d been keeping:
When children between the ages of 6-11 were asked, “What makes a new subject in school most interesting to me?”; the most common response was the Internet.
How do we explain these results?
Is [...]
The Biggest Loser
Posted in Executive Coaching, Inspiration, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning, Purpose, Transformation on January 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
What can we learn about personal and professional change from the popular reality show “The Biggest Loser”; a show that focuses on losing weight? How do these ordinary people go about losing amazing amounts of weight and in so doing change their lives in such relatively short periods of time?
Learning #1: No deep and [...]
What Makes a New Subject Interesting?
Posted in Educational Research, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Learning, Statistics on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was cleaning out some old folders on my hard drive and came across this interesting USA Today poll result that I’d been keeping:
When children between the ages of 6-11 were asked, “What makes a new subject in school most interesting to me?”; the most common response was the Internet.
How do we explain these results?
Is [...]
I Don’t Want To Be the Bad Guy
Posted in Executive Coaching, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning, Practice, Teachers, Transformation on January 1, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I love the discussions that happen at holiday gatherings. This year I listened as a Dan, a teacher in our extended family, told me about his New Year’s resolution to speak to his HS students again about respecting each other, acceptable classroom behaviors, and the responsibilities involved in being a community of learners. He had [...]
