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A Week with Tim and Sarah
We have been extremely blessed to have Tim Rylands and Sarah Neild at our school for the last five days, including a mind-blowing PD day. The banquet Tim has laid out is far too much for us to digest fully anytime soon, which leaves us with a deep well of shared experience to tap for [...]
Is Creativity Really the Goal?
I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about creativity lately, partly due to its prominence in the buzz cloud, and partly due to my irrational fear that school is killing the creativity of my daughter. Thank you, Ken Robinson. At the age of five now she has been coloring inside the lines for 2 years, [...]
Building Capacity for 1:1 Learning
Offering professional development for digital-age learning is not an easy task, perhaps that’s why a lot of schools don’t pay for it. I think it has to do with the overwhelming scope and the nebulous nature of the skill set. You cannot possibly train everyone in a school to teach effectively in a 1:1 environment [...]
A Vision of Transformation
I am living the dream I set out for eight years ago when I first took on the job as HS Technology Facilitator at ISB in Brussels. Now, as IT Director at AISC in Chennai, I take on a large school under exceptional leadership chock full of teachers, students and parents hungry for more technology. [...]
What is Creativity?
A common theme in many of our most popular sources of new ideas on education from conferences to collaborative books stress the growing importance of creativity to the future success of individuals, societies, even civilizations. It’s an idea crystallized, at least for me, by Sir Ken Robinson and his Changing Educational Paradigms video produced by [...]
The Power of Introverts… with Social Technologies
Susan Cain’s powerful TED talk on The Power of Introverts left me little choice but to write this post. Susan’s impassioned pleas to just leave introverts alone and let them think included taking educators to task for forcing students to cooperate and collaborate in areas such as math and writing where surely they would do [...]
A Tech Break with Larry Rosen
Today I had the fortune of listening to Larry Rosen speak to ASB parents about raising our up-and-coming generations of children. While he brought up many different issues over the course of two hours, one point in particular inspired me to write this short post. Its an issue that is on all digital-age educators’ radars; [...]
Of Two Minds About Learning
I am currently contributing to our school’s R&D team to work through the ideas underpinning some radical changes coming to our new school. Here we have some of ASB’s greatest teachers and thinkers, K through 12, synthesizing some of the most profound educational ideas of our time. We are on the verge of redefining the [...]
BYOD Rollout – “Did you do something different with your classroom?”
We’ve been planning and preparing for a trial study of bring your own device (BYOD) for months. The FAQs are all written, the teachers have been briefed, and the parent meetings have all been held. In many ways it was vaguely reminiscent of the first 1:1 program I helped launch 5 years ago, until now. [...]
Blog Press for the iPad
For the last two and a half weeks I’ve been down for the count with one of those communicable diseases that you know could be lurking in any green salad you eat here in Mumbai. It’s the one that even thinking about how it’s transferred will make you sick. I now appear to have beaten [...]
