The Educator's Notebook

Making The Case For Innovation Systems In Higher Ed
Educause - 5/7/18

“In general, higher education institutions have sound and rigorous processes for known, incremental, and precedent-setting change. What they lack is a valued parallel process for true bottom-up experimentation when the outcomes are unknown.”

Should You Appoint Insider Or Outsider Leaders?
Larry Cuban - 5/8/18

"The folk wisdom surrounding superintendents or chancellors heading urban districts says to appoint insiders if you like what has been happening in the system under the exiting superintendent in order to extend and protect what is working well for students, teachers, and the community. Stability and tweaking what works is the order of the day when insiders are appointed school chiefs. However, if you dislike what has been happening in the system, the dysfunctions, mediocre performance, the proliferation of problems, and the accompanying disarray, for heaven’s sake, appoint an outsider.”
“How To Plan And Implement Continuous Improvement In Schools”
KQED - 5/6/18
“How to Identify Talent: Five Lessons from the NFL Draft”
Behavioral Scientist - 4/23/18

Boston Dynamics Now Has A Robot That Runs.
YouTube - 5/10/18
"Jo Boaler Wants Everyone to Love Math”
Medium - 4/27/18

"For instance, Boaler is an advocate of “number talks,” in which students work on a problem — say, 5 x 18 — then discuss the different ways each approached it. Successful students intuitively rewrite such problems in friendlier terms, but there are more ways to do that than you might expect.”

“Dear iPhone—It Was Just Physical, and Now It’s Over”
Nautilus - 5/11/18
Google’s AI Assistant Makes Calls Designed To Sound Human. Yikes.
Ethan Marcotte - 5/9/18
“Kids Are Not Better At Technology Than Adults”
George Couros - 5/8/18

“The difference between kids that are deemed better than adults with technology is not some innate ability; it is their willingness to push buttons. To see what happens. To act on their curiosity.”
Data On Full-Time Virtual And Blended Schools
National Ed Policy Center - 5/1/18

"This sixth NEPC Annual Report on Virtual Education provides a detailed overview and inventory of full-time virtual schools and blended learning, or hybrid, schools. Full-time virtual schools deliver all curriculum and instruction via the Internet and electronic communication, usually asynchronously with students at home and teachers at a remote location. Blended schools combine virtual instruction with traditional face-to-face instruction in classrooms.”

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