An End of Year Prediction: Classroom Technologies in 2020 « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

The error that online champions make decade after decade (recall that distance learning goes back to the 1960s) is that they forget that schools have multiple responsibilities beyond literacy. Both parents and voters want schools to socialize students into community values, prepare them for civic responsibilities, and yes, get them ready for college and career. Online courses from for-profit companies and non-profit agencies cannot hack those duties and responsibilities.

Larry Cuban looking ahead to 2020...

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Listening to Brian Eno & Steven Johnson talk about innovation...

Brian Eno & Steven Johnson

Brian Eno
Brian Eno

2 November 2009

Brian Eno, musician, artist and author of 77 Million Paintings and Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You and The Invention of Air, come to the ICA to talk about how innovations happen and new platforms for creative thinking.

An interesting talk about innovation between Brian Eno and Steven Johnson recorded in November 2009 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

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