I had a fantastic conversation recently with Don Oppenheimer, Associate Dean and Chief Information Officer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Interestingly, his main background and experience is less in education and technology than in knowledge management (KM), and management consulting. Part of his current focus at the Kennedy School is to help with:Continue reading “Kennedy School Takeaways – Information and Education”
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Redirect Website Pages That Move
A quick note to schools moving to new websites, or simply moving some pages to new locations: Redirect your key pages to their new locations. Here are the steps you want to follow: 1) Identify critical pages (giving pages, admission pages, etc.) 2) Identify top entry pages (see your site stats to find your topContinue reading “Redirect Website Pages That Move”
Don’t Build Your Teaching Around Technology
We in education have spent far too many years trying to integrate technology tools into the classroom. By that I do not mean that technology should be avoided in teaching. Far from it. However, the approach in the past has been to pick the tool, and then try to figure out how to wrap instructionContinue reading “Don’t Build Your Teaching Around Technology”
21st Century Skills – Are They Neither? (Part 1)
So we’re in the process of 21st Century Skills (see ISTE NETS and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills) integration at our school. We’ll get into the details of that process in future posts, but I want to immediately get at a couple of points that keep coming up. Thanks Jon Kemmerer for not givingContinue reading “21st Century Skills – Are They Neither? (Part 1)”
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