Are we teaching students to make choices in a world where choices are endless?
How do you spend your vacation?
Here at ISB we get next week off for a well deserved fall break. Now most normal people here in Bangkok will head to one of the numerous amazing beaches and relax and recharge. To bad I’m not normal. My next 10 days: BKK – TPE – NRT – MSP – DSM – MSP – NRT – TPE – BKI […]
5 Billion Cell Phones and Poverty
A report out last Thursday from the United Nations as reported by Fast Company looks at the mobile subscription rate word wide. I haven’t read the whole article but some of the quotes that Fast Company have are pretty interesting. There are about 25 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in the least developed countries (LDCs), according to theInformation Economy […]
AIS Conference and QR Codes in the Classroom
It seems like it’s been forever since I made time to sit and reflect. Then I looked at the date of my last entry and sure enough…it’s been awhile. So I told my wife tonight I was not going to read/respond to any COETAIL blogs but rather my only goal for tonight was to write a blog post. Last weekend […]
Live Blog: The Role of the Principal #TEP10
The Role of the Principal #TEP10
Global Education: What does it mean to be educated? #TEP10
Just out of the first session at The Education Project here in Bahrain which set the stage for what is going to be some hot debated topics in the coming days. Tony Wagner (Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA) set the stage for the first session with three key points that are facing global […]
Education Project Bahrain
I’m in Bahrain to attend the Education Project. A conference that is being hosted by HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalif. His idea is to look at education on a global scale and bring together educational thinkers from around the globe to discuss and think about educating every child (Don’t ask me how I got invited to this….way out of […]
Reflections on Learning 2.010
Learning 2.010 ended last Saturday and four days after the end of the conference I think I’ve recovered enough mentally to actually talk about my experience. This is the 3rd Learning 2 Conference that I have helped to organize and pull off with no less than 20 other educators from in and around Shanghai. Putting on a conference is a […]
My TEDx Talk: Communities Trump Content
TEDxKrungThep September 4, 2010 My TEDx Talk titled: Communities Trump Content
The Next Tech Generations
Last weekend I gave a TEDx Talk at the TEDxKrungthep conference here in Thailand. The YouTube video should be out next week and I’ll post it here so you can all rip it apart and tell me how off the mark I am. 🙂 As I was preparing for the talk somewhere over Vietnam about 34,000 feet in the air, […]