Turning Points in Life are important

Why do it? My students have been asking me this question more and more lately. My response is always the same, “do I seem unhappy?” Of course the response is a very hearty NO. But my students are looking at the content I am teaching and wondering why I am not doing, my thing, in [...]

What about ATM Education? Education Just in Time?

We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about education these days. I wonder if we are talking to simply hear our voices? Here we are well into 2011 and our schools don’t look much different, inside or out, than they did 30 years ago. And I am sorry some of those teachers from [...]

New Learning?

I have been engaging in a lifetime, well as long as I have been going to school, debate about how I learn. As I have gone through the system, I am now a university professor, the question of how I learn has taken on a new dimension as I try to overlay the question onto [...]

Have you seen the Khan Academy?

OK this is just an amazing idea. Here is a guy who was a hedge fund analyst. In his spare time the hedge fund analyst is helping his cousins with a bit of math revision. The next thing we know we have an education tool that is on the cusp of revolutionizing how we do [...]

What if education was student driven?

It is funny and a bit sad that aging educators are doing their best to reinvent the way teaching happens and in the process are really clueless. I was talking to an educator at an IB school about the mega play they are putting on this term. My question was is is student written? NO. [...]

TEDActive Day 3

TED is leaving my mind spinning and that is a great thing to be able to say. I must also say that the best thing about a TED conference remains the people you meet. Here are my audio updates for the last 2 days. And here is Day 4 of the experience Day 2 of [...]

REDU a second thought on education

So, you had a think about education. Maybe you hummed. Maybe you hawed. I know you said that if the system worked for me it can work for the next generation. NOBODY WANTS TO DRIVE A MODEL T FORD TODAY SO WHY ARE WE SATISFIED WITH AN EDUCATION THAT IS FRAMED IN THAT ERA! Watch [...]

We got education wrong!

I really do think we are going about the art of informing and developing our children on the wrong way. Not that the whole process is broken, but it does need a serious renovation. So where do we start? I think the starting point is a huge issue. We have old school administrators looking at the problem [...]

FastCompany the Communication TEXTbook we need.

So, I teach in a college of communication and media sciences in the United Arab Emirates. And one of the constant challenges is keeping a steady stream of up to date teaching resources in the hands of the students. Actually this is a global problem. As soon as we get that newly minted text on [...]

Mobile Media is Under Used!

If you are like me there is no shortage of mobile media in your life! Smartphones, PDA’s, semi-smartphones there is an overabundance of hand-held technology today. But what we are not seeing are the education and professional communities picking up these, anyplace and anywhere enabling tools as a means to advancing personal/professional/directed information exchange. And, [...]

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