The Weekly Update: February 14 – 20
Unfettered by Stuff – or “Why I don’t lug stuff home every night”, David Andrade Understand RSS and make the Web Work for You, Jeff Utecht Will the Next Revolution be Stroomed?, Ted Grasty Open Courseware on Every Campus by 2016?, Dennis Carter Teaching Twitter To Higher Education Colleagues, Ed...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: September 7 – September 13
Swine Flu Preperations Spur E-Learning Plans– Education Week Technology Workshops for Teachers Make Computer Connections– Ann Banks, Edutopia Florida Virtual School Doing More With Less– Florida AP Do I Trust the System Enough?– Tim Holt, Intended Consequences Hacking Higher Education– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class Clever Use of Twitter for Mobile Learning– Judy Brown,...
Read MoreShrinking School Budgets and Disruptive Innovation
The current recession is having a major impact on public schools as district leaders find their budgets squeezed by shrinking revenues. Administrators in districts all throughout the country are facing the worst funding crisis in decades, and many analysts anticipate next year’s circumstances to be even worse. With the short-term financial outlook for public schools being so bleak, I wonder how these circumstances will affect the way schools educate students. Will these economic conditions change our public schools in a fundamental way? Will America’s schools be forced to embrace...
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