Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Nice article on Microsoft’s High School of the Future located in Philadelphia.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
As educational leaders, we are forever involved in problem solving situations. If we are to become “serial innovators,” Matthew May suggests we need to overcome the seven sins of solutions.
- Shortcutting - leaping to solutions. Do you dig into the possible causes of the problem, or do you jump right to a solution?
- Blindspots What assumptions do you make when solving a problem?
- Satisficing Do you go with the first option that offers an acceptable payoff?
- Downgrading Do you choose a solution that gets you most of the way, then sell the upside and downplay the downside?”
- Complicating What cost and complexity do you add in trying to solve the problem?
- Stifling Do you dismiss the answers of others in favor of your own?
“To become a great problem solver, focus on asking the right question, not the right answer.”
You can read the entire article and find out how to eliminate or tame the seven sins.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Recent National School Boards Association study: Creating & Connecting//Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking
Among the recommendations:
- Explore social networking sites
- Consider using social networking for staff communication and professional development
- Pay attention to the non-conformists
- Reexamine social networking policies
- Encourage social networking companies to increase educational value
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
We seem to be hearing more and more of this thinking from all corners of the educational world.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
This from the Harvard Business School blog: How Will Millennials Manage? The millennial generation exhibits different kinds of traits and values than previous generations. How will education be impacted by this new generation of teachers and administrators?
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