PILOTed

Just finished two days with state education technology directors at the SETDA Fall Leadership Summit in Arlington, VA.
Probably the most important take-away from the meeting is what is happening at the FCC.
First, schools and libraries receive about $2.5Billion a year to build and maintain their Internet and WiFi connections from the FCC. This money comes through the telecom companies and is called eRate funding. It’s technically not a tax, it’s a fee paid...

A few weeks ago, I published a post based on Jonah Sachs's book Unsafe Thinking: Can You Know Too Much?
Here are some more tidbits on stress, motivation, and flow.
Stress

We are increasingly calling for teaching design in schools. Why is design important?
McKinsey Consulting recently reported that companies with good design processes (top quartile) outperformed their industry by about 2:1: higher revenue growth, larger return to stockholders, and better financial performance....

When you introduce technology into the classroom, and hold learning content, instructional practice, assessment experiences, and professional development constant, you actually hold back learning; students learn less in one year than they learned without...