Is the Teaching Profession Being Downsized?
Original Title: The Strange Future of the Teaching Profession. Reposted with permission from Save Maine Schools – Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform. KnowledgeWorks, which has received upwards of 50 million … Continue reading
Personalized Learning Pathways & the Gig Economy
Individual learning pathways, 21st century skills, Embracing the whole child; These empowering phrases are being used to sell the public on a technology-centric, radical redesign of public education. Why? So … Continue reading
From Neighborhood Schools to Learning Eco-Systems, A Dangerous Trade
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. If we hope to preserve neighborhood schools for future generations we must recognize how reformers are reframing the idea of public education in … Continue reading
KnowledgeWorks, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the push for competency based learning
How can I have a problem with competency based learning? This is a question I get asked quite a lot these days. To be fair, critics of my stance usually … Continue reading
ELO’s: How Community-Based Learning Advances the Cyber Education Agenda, Part 1
Editor’s note: Post republished with permission from Wrench in the Gears. ELOs: How Community-Based Learning Advances the Cyber Education Agenda ELO’s are learning experiences that by definition happen OUTSIDE the classroom. … Continue reading
