Overcoming the Technology Resistance Movement — Inside the School
Strategies to deal with resistance to technology within education
Education - Change.org: Pharmer's Market: The Cost of Producing "Successful" Students
A comparison of standardized schooling with industrial agriculture and the effects of the obsession on productivity in both environments
In standardized environments, students with a high tolerance for monotony and the ability to repress their curious gene are deemed the fittest of the bunch.
It seems that despite (or maybe because of) our fetish with productivity, many of humanity's most pressing issues seem to be getting worse. The unnatural selection playing out in schools creates what every educational institution's mission statement pledges against: the creation of uncritical, passive, challenge-averse individuals, unwilling and unable to tackle the challenges of the 21st-century.
How Can We Eliminate Roadblocks to the Information Highway?
Education World article from 2000 with numerous quotes from teachers on barriers to technology integration in the classroom
Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too
An argument against standardizing professional development for teachers. Will we ever transform education if we expect every teacher to learn the same things at the same time in the same way? If we personalize their learning and tap into their passions, we might be able to create some real change in education though.
Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Reflections on the transition process moving from an in-house LMS to Moodle, including discussion of change management challenges
Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia
Marc Prensky on uses of technology in the classroom, moving from simply dabbling to doing "new things in new ways."
<p>First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) It's typically a four-step process:</p>
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<li> Dabbling.</li>
<li> Doing old things in old ways.</li>
<li> Doing old things in new ways.</li>
<li> Doing new things in new ways.</li></ol>