by edtosavetheworld | Feb 2, 2015 | News and Trends
Have you seen one on a block near you? These shared office spaces allow small businesses to share expensive rents in large urban areas — but they serve another important purpose: diverse collaboration. The idea is that by bringing together people from different...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 15, 2014 | News and Trends, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
One way to look at the world is to divide it into adaptive and technical challenges and solutions. For example if I am a teacher using a math textbook that is outdated, I can solve that problem with a technical solution, a new textbook. If, however, my challenge is...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 8, 2014 | News and Trends
What does 21st Century Learning or education innovation really mean? It’s a concept that often has assumed agreement — but it needs a lot of unpacking and discussion. There seems to be a set of trends for what topics dominate “education...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 10, 2014 | News and Trends
A couple years ago when we decided to name this blog Education to Save the World, we were worried that many people would write us off as too idealistic, naive or otherwise not-to-be-taken seriously. But we feel certain that learning via solving some of the...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 3, 2014 | News and Trends, Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
When you hear the word evaluation what comes to mind? For most of us — whether we think about being the evaluator or the evaluated — it’s not good. That’s one reason that many organizations in the private sector are doing away with them. In his...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 27, 2014 | News and Trends, Testing and Assessments
In his 2013 interview with Thomas Friedman, Tony Wagner made a claim that Ed2S readers won’t be surprised by: Reimagining schools for the 21st-century must be our highest priority. To do that we need what Wagner calls ‘Accountability 2.0.’ Our educational system is...
