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Remote Teaching Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

(edSurge, March 25, 2020)

What can K-12 teachers, college and university professors and specialists in online learning learn from one another about how to optimized lecturing/direct instruction?


Is Education Entering an “Age of Alternatives”?

(edSurge, March 2, 2019)

Might our education system be entering a new age without anyone noticing?


Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

(edSurge, August 19, 2019)

Why  do efforts to make teachers more efficient often backfire?


What Can Schools Learn from the Successful Transformation of Public Libraries?

(edSurge, October 26, 2019)

What can libraries teach us about what might work in future attempts at school reform?


Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win

(edSurge, October 26, 2019)

Might failures in Ed Tech and education reform have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education?

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Latest Published Writing

Remote Learning Begs the Question:  Must Lectures Be So Long? (EdSurge – May 25, 2020)

It’s Time to Get Serious About Teaching Critical Thinking (Inside Higher Education – March 2, 2020)

Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win (EdSurge – February 5, 2020)

Is Education Entering an “Age of Alternatives”? (EdSurge – March 2, 2019)

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