educational reform
Manufacturing Demand
Posted by David Wees on Jan 31, 2011
Thanks to @rmbyrne and his Free Technology for Teachers website, I just saw Annie Lenox's "The Story of Bottled Water" video which is recommended viewing, but chances are those of you coming to this blog know the story she's telling already.
Why is individualization in education so important?
Posted by David Wees on Jul 8, 2010
Tonight I was at a birthday party for a young boy; I was invited as a result of my son being about the same age as the birthday boy. While we were dolling out the ice cream and cake for the 5 boys at the party, I was struck by the realization that there was a relationship between their choices for ice cream and cake, and how we need to look at education.
Here's what each boy wanted for this ice cream and cake.
Using #edchat to take action
Posted by David Wees on Jul 6, 2010
Today's #edchat on Twitter was about how we can break free of the echo chamber that is #edchat. We all have great ideas, but how can we turn those great ideas into action? Our objective is not to stop our great conversations but to also move beyond our conversations into concrete action.
The Relationship Between Accountability and Creativity
Posted by David Wees on Jun 21, 2010
Imagine this graph represents the possible relationships between accountability and creativity.
Where would you put the activities you do as a school? Here are some examples of activities some school do, and where I think they lie on the accountability vs creativity scale.
Radically reform schools
Posted by David Wees on Mar 7, 2010
Personally I believe schools are in need of deeper reforms than simply changing the pedagogy a bit can resolve. Here are some suggestions I've been exposed to over the past few weeks, which could be considered radical, but might really improve schools. I'd like to provide references for where I learned about this information, but to be honest I'm not really sure who exactly suggested what, I've been processing a lot of information recently.
Disclaimer: The ideas discussed on this blog are my own, and in no way represent those of my employer.
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