by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
Google Fiber, the FTTH initiative already well underway, has added Huntsville Alabama to their list of installed or installing base of American cities. Huntsville has been suggested as a model for the kind of high tech growth Las Cruces seeks. This meme was especially...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
As mentioned in the Quality Assurance post today, the big educational institutions in the US are charged with defining and improving the “systems” of learning widely promulgated by same. For decades there have been strong and articulate voices calling for...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
There’s a landscape where the individual is front and center in learning, as in Todd Rose’s world, which includes his concerns that we haven’t thought through how to change this: We’re trying to have a system to do what it was never designed to do....
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Individual Learner
That was something Garrison Keillor said about his fictional town in Minnesota, Lake Wobegon. Here’s a column from Anya Kamenetz, one of our favorite education innovation thinkers. Sort of asks the question of what we can do now to know the individual. In the...
by andflywrite | Feb 13, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
One thing that’s hard to grasp at times, is how truly gigantic the US is, in terms of cities, towns, and space, and that no one really “has a handle” on all that is happening in the various locales, and “local scenes”. One of PSA 7 core...
by andflywrite | Feb 12, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Convergence on Target, Learning Community, Understanding Media
As the early days of the mobile communication evolution roll on, we are challenged to envision where “things are headed” in order to understand media in the mobile age. That’s one of PSA’s 7 Core Elements. Snapchat is one tool for immersing...
