Tim Stutt: “When we start to see more principals, superintendents, and decision makers who grew up with gaming as a formative experience, there will be a real opportunity for educational gaming to gain momentum”
(Why Educational Games Fail).
Tina Rooks: “In the U.S., the recent National Educational Technology Plan (Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology) provides a specific roadmap for ‘revolutionary transformation rather than evolutionary tinkering’ to raise expectations from ‘adequate’ to ‘exceedingly proficient’” (‘Adequate’ Isn’t Good Enough: The NETP Roadmap to Higher Expectations).
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require professors to give final exams (“Bye-bye, Blue Books?”, Harvard Magazine, July-Aug 2010).
Blair Levin and J. Erik Garr, “A New America Through Broadband” (Washington Post 7.16.10).
ePals will provide, at no cost to NYC’s DOE, the means for public schools to create online communities connecting students, parents, teachers, and school leaders. This cloud-based solution will save the DOE millions annually on infrastructure costs to host e-mail (ePals press release, 7.15.10).
Jeff McClellan, head of Cleveland’s MC2STEM High School, where each grade level is embedded in a different STEM industry partner.
Paul Kim: “Why does education need to be so structured? What are we so afraid of? The more you expect from a kid, the smarter they’re going to get.” (In Anya Kamenetz’s DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, 4.1.10).
Susan C. Aldridge, president, U of Maryland University College: “The Sarah Englishes of the world do not need to change. We do. The goal of every university must be to leave no motivated adult behind” (Baltimore Sun, 7.6.10).
Jodi Beggs: “Just like in music and movies, technology makes it possible for a large number of students to be served by what are likely to become ‘superstar’ instructors” (Huffington Post, 7.6.10).
Charles Leadbeater: “We need really radical thinking, and . . . radical thinking is now more possible and more needed than ever in how we learn” (Education Innovation in the Slums, dotSUB 6.16.10).
A study by Derek Robertson and David Miller, to be published in the British Journal of Educational Technology, “suggests that the increased use of games systems in Scottish schools is bringing real benefits.” (Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online, 7.5.10)
Barb Brown’s “ISTE10 Reflections”: Notes on ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference in Denver, Colorado, June 27-30, 2010. Technology Leadership, 7.3.10
Nicholas H. Allen: Web 2.0 “technologies have the potential to significantly alter the time and and place paradigms that have anchored the educational experience for centuries” (Halm, The Education Pipeline Is Changing, IMS Global Impact 2010).
“Institutions of education tend to be much more change resistant when they should be the opposite,” said Rischard, opening keynote speaker for ISTE 2010 (June 27-30, Denver).
Gov. Tim Pawlenty: “Do you really think in 20 years somebody is going to put on their backpack, drive a half hour to the University of Minnesota from the suburbs, haul their keister across campus and sit and listen to some boring person drone on about Econ 101 or Spanish 101?”
Eric Jansson: ‘Rebundling’ Liberal Education (Inside Higher Ed, 6.22.10): “Those looking for fundamental shifts in this [liberal education] pedagogical model will be disappointed. Those looking for creative options to organizing, planning, and packaging – or ‘rebundling’ – this style of education are likely to be rewarded.”
James J. Duderstadt
The Future of the University: A Perspective from the Oort Cloud (Feb. 2007) and Transforming the University to Serve the Digital Age (Winter 1997-98)
