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I stumbled today on this description, posted somewhere in another city on a school website: “The mission of the Technology Department is to ensure that staff and administrators have continual opportunities to improve their professional skills and integration of technology to enhance instructional practices, communication, and productivity”. Sounds about right? If you read this mission statement carefully, you’ll notice the entire statement is about supporting the technological experiences of teachers and staff. [Read More]

I know you have been waiting for this answer for quite some time (at least, since 1979) so let’s not prolong your suffering. The answer to life, the universe, and everything is not 42! Here is the correct formula: Step 1. Develop humility and accept failures Step 2. Work hard and pursue difficult challenges Step 3. Celebrate your accomplishments Let me illustrate this great discovery of mine. Let’s ponder upon three questions. [Read More]

We will do a much better job of preparing our students if schools fully embrace at the organizational level the value of future-forward thinking. The recent Stanford d.school’s discussion Educators as Futurists: A Conversation with Stanford d.school Leaders provided insight into the fundamental role of schooling. Educators who take a futurist’s mindset are looking to cultivate young people into lifelong, adaptive learners, rather than being concerned with teaching what’s immediately measured on a test. [Read More]