Networks have four specific components: purpose, structure, style, value. Each of these components can be tuned in such a way to generate positive and negative network…
Consider reading Howard Gardner’s Changing Minds: The art and science of changing our own and other people’s minds. Gardner, an admitted cognitivist, offers an interpretation of what it takes to change minds in…
As a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform — Finland’s experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.
What happens when we switch our attention from looking at how people learn to why people learn? We often call this difference motivation. Motivation is…
Here is a link to a timeline of MOOCs brought to you by our friends at the Chronicle of Higher Education. A wonderful photo of…
Situation: In this new, hot, flat and crowded world, we need new forms of understanding to deal with the issues that surround us. Why video…
[note: This is Wendy Drexler and my proposal for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference (New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2011). It was accepted with...
The Internet is similar to radio and television in their early stage of development. Although it is hard to tell what it will become, “it…
I was recently browsing through an eSchool News online article with the title “Experts: Edtech must change its message.” The article is about the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) conference in San Francisco March…
