Tag: Education
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Disrupting Class-The Charleston Visit
On Aug.5-6, Dr. Johnson, co-author of Disrupting Class, spent some serious face time with individuals and organizations involved with public education in our state. I don’t know if it was his engaging manner, engaging message or just the fact that people wanted to be engaged, but he started a conversation about how WV could begin…
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Disrupting Class = Chapter 5
The System For Student-Centric Learning This is a complicated chapter to read and understand. Education, like a private business, is a “commercial system”. “A commercial system is the context within which a firm establishes its cost structure and operating processes and works with suppliers and channel partners to respond profitably to customers common needs. The…
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Educational Attainment Rankings
The U.S. Department of Education produces a report on educational attainment by state. Here you can view in detail what % of adults 18 years and over have attained high school, two-year, four-year and graduate degrees. Changing the trajectory of a region in this critical arena of life is difficult. Most of the lower-ranking states…
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Turning Learning Right Side Up
Must be the time of year when books about innovation and education are on everybody’s summer reading list. Here is a write up about the latest from Russell L. Ackoff, Anheuser Busch Professor Emeritus of management science at The Wharton School. (I want a title like this someday, Yeungling Professor Embarrasus) http://www.changethis.com/47.02.TurningLearning From the Back…
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Disrupting Class = Chapters 4
Here is the Meat of the Disruption Chapter 4 – Disruptively Deploying Computers “The disruptive transiton from teacher-delivered to software-delivered instruction is likely to proceed in two stages. We call the first of these stages computer-based learning. In this stage, the software will be proprietary and relatively expensive to develop; and it will be monolithic,…
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Disrupting Class = Chapters 1-3
Chapter 1: Why Schools Struggle to Teach Differently When Each Student Learns Differently Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner defines intelligence: -The ability to solve problems that one encounters in real life.-The ability to generate new problems to solve.-The ability to make something or offer a service that is valued in one’s culture. (That is not exactly…
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Crystal Good is the Creative Economy!
Crystal Good, 33 years old, Charleston, WV createwv.typepad.com New Economy Factor: Though Ms. Good was born in Charleston, at various times she has made her home in Richmond, Atlanta, Tallahassee, New York, and Dallas. She has three sons, ages 12, 9, and 5. Like so many Americans, she is biracial; (black and white), but unlike…
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Does WV Really Want to Attract and Retain Young People?
Here in Pittsburgh, PA, city leaders have been scratching their heads for years over their continued brain drain. With an elite high-tech university (Carnegie Mellon), a very large university (Pitt) and many smaller colleges surrounding the region, there is a strong academic infrastructure. The very founder of the “Creative Class” paradigm, Richard Florida, lived and…
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Creating a Sense of Urgency for Our Economic Future
According to their web site, the Milken Institute “is a publicly supported, nonpartisan, independent think tank whose work makes a difference in the lives of people worldwide by helping create a more democratic and efficient global economy.” They recently published their “2008 State Technology and Science Index” which ranks states on their ability to take…
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Giving New Economy the Old College Try
One of the most strategic actions West Virginia could take is to develop stronger regional partnerships between the 20+ colleges and universities in the state and their surrounding communities. A healthy four-year institution can be a hub of every pillar of new economy success: diversity, technology, quality of place (cultural and otherwise) and talent/education. Many…