A Ghost of Your Children’s Future
There are moments we live that remind us just how very quickly time lets itself pass us by. Moments where we wish we could reach out and pull against the unbending second hand to slow its persistent sweep around the clock. I was rocking my daughter to sleep last night, and I was struck with […]
The Paradoxes of Education Innovation
Innovation is a beautifully romanticized notion. It brings to mind thoughts of amazing individuals like Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and Marie Curie who so daringly defied and displaced the status quo. And therein lies the problem. Because statistically speaking, the majority of us are the status quo. And the status quo rarely enjoys being displaced. […]
Technology as an Amplifier
In recent decades, there has existed in education the question, “Why technology?” The question itself is a rather good one if posed with genuine inquiry that seeks to find and actualize the potential that exists when technology meets learning. Yet there are times when the question is asked with a different spirit. The question is […]
