What Did You Do This Summer?
When people ask “How’s your summer going?” it reflects a paradigm built around a traditional school year calendar but which applies to a...
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Aug 23, 20152 min read
Start AIMMING for Success
It’s time to start AIMMing for success. AIMM is a simple acronym for Academics Integrated with Making and Mentoring, a straightforward...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
Questions Raised by a Placeholder Diploma
Last week I observed over 600 students from the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts graduate at the esteemed Avery Fisher Hall....
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Aug 23, 20154 min read
Maker Spaces and Digital Fabrication Democratize Learning
As Paulo Blikstein noted “Innovation and collaborative problem-solving are core skills for virtually any career, and yet those are the...
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May 26, 20154 min read
Ongoing Transitions in the New Educational Ecosystem
One day you’re a sage on the stage; and the next, you’re struggling for more hits on YouTube, more followers on Twitter, or more +1s on...
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May 26, 20154 min read
Balancing Learning Technology with the Human Touch
I guess that image of President Obama learning how to code as part of last year’s Hour of Code was not enough to convince everyone of the...
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May 2, 20154 min read
Will Old School Practices Remain as Education Redefines Itself?
As the worlds of higher education and K-12 redefine their missions and reshape their offerings, we continue to see resistance to models...
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Apr 7, 20154 min read
Replace High Stakes Testing with Higher Return Design Thinking
Several articles in the past couple of weeks have highlighted the methodology of design thinking for both the business environment and...
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Apr 7, 20154 min read
Backing Into School Design from the Workplace of Tomorrow
I originally posted portions of this in a blog titled “This is a School That Johnny Wants to Attend.” A couple of readers thought the...
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Mar 31, 20154 min read
Is Gen Z Prepared for the Real World or Not?
This weekend’s Job Market Column, “Make Way for Generation Z,” by Alexandra Levit intrigued me frankly because of the overall optimism of...
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