Praxis Makes Perfect

Much thanks to Arvind and Alex over at 21st Century Learning for having me on their webcast. It was great fun to catch up with a classmate, and shoot the breeze on issues of education, research, and technology.

One of the things we wanted to talk about, but didn’t spend much time on, was this speech by Sir Ken Robinson. Check it out here.

Here are some of my thoughts on the presentation (and I’ll address some of Arvind and Alex’s other questions that we didn’t get to in the webcast in future posts this week): More after the jump.

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I’m going to go off on a little tangent with this post, so apologies beforehand.

I attended an alumni event this weekend for my dear alma mater; it was a panel discussion discussing Mayor Villaraigosa’s takeover of LAUSD. It was moderated by Professor Kenneth Wong with panelists representing the LAUSD school board, another California school board, a member of the Mayor’s staff, and a teacher in a LAUSD charter school.

First thoughts - Amazing props to my alma mater and everyone involved for organizing and participating in such an important event. What a great commitment to dialogue and education. My reaction after the jump.

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