KQED’s Michael Krasny interviewed Milton Chen, executive director emeritus of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and Edutopia, earlier today– and now you can listen online. Chen’s new bookEducation Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools (Jossey-Bass Teacher) outlines some of what he sees as the important edges in 21st century education. Predictably, some [...]
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Design Revolution Road Show
The Design Revolution Road Show is in its third month on the road, and if you’re lucky enough to live in one of the midwestern places where it is coming, you’re in for a treat. The road show consists of a great old Airstream trailer filled with real products that have been designed with humanitarian [...]
Inside the Black Box of Teacher Quality
There’s a famous Sidney Harris cartoon that shows two mathematicians near a chalkboard working out some long, complicated theorem. In the middle of the board, connecting the two halves of the formula, is the phrase “and then a miracle occurs.” One of the mathematicians tells the other, “I think you should be more explicit here [...]
The Meanings of School Gardens: Berkeley’s Edible Schoolyard
No question about it, the Edible Schoolyard garden at Berkeley’s King Middle School is a beautiful place: an acre of land right behind the school, well tended with lots of well-planned growing plots, learning spaces, and resources. But what is the meaning of the garden? What is its role in the school? You would not [...]
Getting unstuck: design thinking
So what do you do, when you’re working project, and you just get stuck? Here’s what design thinking will advise: Don’t just stay there, and try to think it through, or analyze it to death. Think: “Who can I go to?” and “What can I try?” This was one of the gems from George Kemble’s [...]