For as long as I have been involved in education, the focus for finding the key to fixing education has always been about providing professional development for the teachers and administrators.
The philosophy is top-down with the intent that knowledge will eventually trickle down to benefit the students.
But, during one of the two ISTE Ignite sessions, I listened to the well respected “education disruptionist,” Will Richardson, sum up 19 of his bold beliefs about education in exactly five minutes. His five minutes were not just inspiring, but I heard it as a call to all educators to stop putting up road blocks and open up the classrooms and allow learning to become powerful and impact the world. There are so many things we are not doing right and, according to Mr. Richardson, we need to start asking “Why wouldn’t we…?” It’s truly five minutes of slides that kindles limitless conversation among those interested in education and definitely worth the few minutes it takes to watch:
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