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Archive for May, 2006
Does Education need Technology?
It pays to carefully consider this question when reviewing plans to implement new technologies in an educational environment. A terrific article by Michael Simkins, Does Technology Pay?, appeared in the 2/06 Technology & Learning magazine. Simkins encourages questioning not just if the technology works, but also how will it make learning better? For instance if you introduce blogs in an english class, do test scores rise? Does student writing improve? What aspect of the student learning do you expect to improve, and how will you know it happens?
Program Assessment
Our home-grown on line course evaluation system is having its second trial at the school, and again is working well. I spent the end of last week in two days of PHP programming training offered by NYPHP.ORG. The course was pretty good, and gave me all sorts of new ideas on how to re-write everything and make the system even more useful for the school.
Copyright and Culture
I’ve come to believe that our current copyright system in the US is broken. And may actually be serving to stifle innovation and the development of new ideas. I was comforted to see that the copyright infringement case against the Da Vinci code in England found that there was no violation — maybe there is some hope. The Artful Manager blog has a good post about a talk by Lawrence Lessig. Take a look at both, and see what you think.
Arts Management Resources
My first career was Arts Management, and I still enjoy keeping a hand in it. Here are some resources I came across today:
Stephen Powell on why Higher Ed doesn’t change
I guess it must be the end of a loooong school year for Mr. Powell.
Stephen Powell: Some reasons why Higher Education Institutions don’t change
