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Good vs. great teachers: how do you wish to be remembered? « Granted, but…
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Classes a la carte: States test a new school model | Reuters
Call it the a la carte school.
The model, now in practice or under consideration in states including Louisiana, Michigan, Arizona and Utah, allows students to build a custom curriculum by selecting from hundreds of classes offered by public institutions and private vendors. -
How, then, should businesspeople who are genuinely interested in school reform take on the challenge? Start by recognizing that you have a great deal to offer education — if you can draw on the most collaborative, generative aspects of business thinking and action, following the examples of companies that promote transparency, engagement, shared accountability, continuous improvement, and organizational learning.
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Globalism goes backward – The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet
So…this is an interesting twist analysis of globalization – one of the major factors attributed with influencing and impacting education. How might this perspective rub up against MOOCs and other globalizing trends? How might schools actually go more local? How might we work on the interior of our networks? How might we strengthen the system?
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What we’re aiming for here is not retreat, but to reset our ideas for a new age. It points up the fact of an urgent need for change at the most difficult, insider place of them all: ourselves.
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Happy Vs Meaningful Life – Business Insider
I wonder… if we reconstructed school, in such a way as to be more meaningful, would the two circles in the Venn – meaningfulness and happiness – move to more overlapping area?
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Jim Knight – If Steve Jobs Designed Schools – YouTube
What if Steve Jobs had re-invented the education system rather the computer and consumer electronics industry?
Not the best talk, but the content contains great thought-provoking.
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This is one example of the ways that Unboundary imagines corporations and education will connect and merge for Education 3.0.
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On Feedback: 13 practical examples per your requests « Granted, but…
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When Trying Harder Doesn’t Work – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
But for higher education to accommodate our future needs requires leadership that will pay attention to issues of access, affordability, curriculum, and pedagogy—and that will require collaboration, risk taking, and care.
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