Personalization without isolation
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting a competency-based high school called Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA) in Roxbury, Mass. A number of […]
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting a competency-based high school called Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA) in Roxbury, Mass. A number of […]
Oct 2, 2013
Motivating students is hard. Surveyed teachers recently ranked motivation as their number one biggest struggle with students. Fortunately, good theory can make it easier. In […]
Oct 1, 2013
Disruptive innovations often take hold in areas of nonconsumption—situations in which the alternative to using a new method or product is nothing at all. Although […]
Sept 25, 2013
Flipped classrooms, individual workstations, way fewer face-to-face lectures—when parents first see online learning blend into their school, they can feel alarmed. Often blended courses dispense […]
Sept 24, 2013
Earlier this summer our education team visited the Khan Academy Discovery Lab, a summer camp where upper-elementary students spent one week learning about either math […]
Sept 23, 2013
At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we often talk about blended learning and competency-based education in the same breath. That’s because we see both as necessary […]
Sept 18, 2013
In our work as educators, we often find ourselves wrestling with choices about instructional strategies. For example, should we try blended learning, or should we […]
Sept 16, 2013
As we see the growth of virtual school options, I anticipate that more states will contemplate performance-based funding schemes. Michael Horn noted this trend in […]
Sept 11, 2013
In the mid-1990s, the Internet became the next big thing in telecommunications. To ensure that students would be able to participate in the emerging digital […]
Sept 9, 2013
“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” – […]
Sept 3, 2013