Friday, December 11, 2009

Re: Who and what would you choose to help inspire a 'rethinking school' brainstorming effort?

Don't want to sound self-serving, but I've been doing such work for 28
years.

http://stager.org/bio

On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Fred Bartels wrote:

> Imagine you were asked to lead a serious group brainstorming effort to
> improve education by redesigning our schools to take better
> advantage of
> computers, digital devices, Web 2.0 technologies, and social media.
>
> Say, for arguments sake, that the effort was something equivalent to
> 1893
> Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies which developed many of
> the
> practices which still characterize our schools.
>
> (See http://bit.ly/6NbBoG for the Committee of Ten's report.)
>
> Now also imagine that you had a really big budget.
>
> Who would you invite to come help your group do the best possible
> job with
> the redesign effort?
>
> What would you recommend the participants read and/or watch in
> preparation
> for participating in the redesign effort?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>
> --
> Fred Bartels
> Dir. of Info. Tech.
> Rye Country Day School
>
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