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Education - Change.org: Pharmer's Market: The Cost of Producing "Successful" Students
A comparison of standardized schooling with industrial agriculture and the effects of the obsession on productivity in both environments
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In standardized environments, students with a high tolerance for monotony and the ability to repress their curious gene are deemed the fittest of the bunch.
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It seems that despite (or maybe because of) our fetish with productivity, many of humanity's most pressing issues seem to be getting worse. The unnatural selection playing out in schools creates what every educational institution's mission statement pledges against: the creation of uncritical, passive, challenge-averse individuals, unwilling and unable to tackle the challenges of the 21st-century.
A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org
A story about changing an organizational culture through stories. The stories we tell show what's important; telling new stories shows new priorities.
BeyondE Learning
Free e-book in three parts: "Beyond E-Training," "Beyond the Classroom," and "Beyond Learning." Includes case studies and examples of how organizations are doing more with e-learning than traditional classroom training.
How Can We Eliminate Roadblocks to the Information Highway?
Education World article from 2000 with numerous quotes from teachers on barriers to technology integration in the classroom
Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too
An argument against standardizing professional development for teachers. Will we ever transform education if we expect every teacher to learn the same things at the same time in the same way? If we personalize their learning and tap into their passions, we might be able to create some real change in education though.
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Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
CCK08: List of change tactics from 1st Elluminate session
Screenshot of the brainstorming on how to make change happen with Nancy White leading the CCK08 discussion
DiegoLeal.org: Random ideas on random conversations (CCK08-Week 9)
Another set of notes from Nancy White's discussion for CCK08. Where my notes focused heavily on what Nancy and Stephen was saying, Diego did a much better job of capturing and summarizing the chat conversation.
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When you think of yourself as a learner, you begin to act as one, and suddenly all the potential of networks and online information begins to make sense
Learning 2.0 Strategy : eLearning Technology
7 aspects of learning 2.0 strategy, with a recurring theme of focusing on small, simple, tactical changes rather than trying to do a top-down approach. This makes sense; web 2.0 isn't a top-down exchange of information, so learning 2.0 shouldn't work best with that kind of hierarchy either. Focus on the behaviors you can change and the tactics that can be immediately successful, then let the organizational culture and strategy follow.
Don’t Fear the Conversation: Four Reasons People/Companies Reject Social Media and Shouldn’t : UberNoggin
Four common objections to using social media for organizations, with responses.
Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Reflections on the transition process moving from an in-house LMS to Moodle, including discussion of change management challenges
Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia
Marc Prensky on uses of technology in the classroom, moving from simply dabbling to doing "new things in new ways."
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- Dabbling.
- Doing old things in old ways.
- Doing old things in new ways.
- Doing new things in new ways.
First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) It's typically a four-step process:
Steven M Smith - The Satir Change Model
Five-stage model for organizational change (originally developed for family therapy, but applies to businesses and larger organizations too).
1. Late Status Quo
2. Resistance
3. Chaos
4. Integration
5. New Status Quo
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