It gets frustrating hearing the never-ending drumbeat of complaints about our educational system.
We need to:
mandate that teachers use technology, get the hierarchy into our way of thinking about technology and change, re-write the curriculum so that it is more engaging and relevant, provide better and more frequent PD, develop new read/write web learning communities, repeal [...]
Archive for April, 2008
What Would You Do?
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Transformation, tagged Educational Technology, school reform, Transformation on April 29, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Spiritual Growth in the Workplace
Posted in Learning on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is there a connection between our own spiritual growth and our work? Most people keep them separate. It’s pretty common to feel that ‘work is work’ and anything spiritual doesn’t belong in our professional lives. In many businesses a contrary view of what it is to be a working professional and an effective leader is [...]
The Classroom Dojo
Posted in K-12 Education, Learning, Teachers, Transformation, tagged aikido dojo classroom sensei sempai on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the past six years I have maintained a practice in Aikido. We learn Aikido in a ‘dojo’ which means “place of the Way”. What would it look like if we structured each of our classrooms like a dojo?
Aikido is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial [...]
Virtualization Concerns
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership Development, Learning, Planning, Teachers, Transformation, infrastructure, tagged one to one computing, server farms, technical support, virtualization on April 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In two recent posts (Sustaining the Unsustainable, Towards a New Paradigm) I laid out the case for a new networking paradigm based on ‘virtualizing’ as much of our technology infrastructure as possible.
As I pointed out previously, a simplistic explanation of ‘virtualization’ is that we remove the software applications that now reside on individual hard [...]
Joy
Posted in Learning on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today I am feeling a sweet and abiding joy. There is a deep welling of gratefulness in me. I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you; over and over again. There have been so many wonderful people that have touched me along the way and so many that inspire me.
Sometimes the only thing [...]
Toward a New Paradigm
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Planning on April 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Note: This was cross posted at the Classlink Blog.
In my last post, “Sustaining the Unsustainable”, I examined the status of a small district completely overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations of maintaining a 500 + workstation network. National statistics show that this district’s technical support struggles are like many other districts throughout the country. There [...]
