I asked one of my professors during my first or second year of grad school, How are education policies made? I demanded an answer to a truly impossible question, and my professor’s answer was appropriate: It is a very complex process. As a fifth grade teacher, I couldn’t fathom the enormous chasm that lived between [...]
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“Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.”
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 6, 2011 4:35 pm.This past Sunday’s New York Times published the first of a series of articles about “the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning”(p. 16) with the title “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores.” I have to say, I appreciate the NYT’s effort at turning the spotlight to education every now and then, [...]
Pednology, or Maybe Techagogy
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 2, 2011 10:25 am.Yesterday’s post marked the start of me trying to work out, in writing, some of the questions I have about pedagogy and technology. I’ve been spending more time with my computer than any other object in my life for at least the last ten years, and there are (many) things that have developed or changed over [...]
