Education Blog Roundup
Hot sizzling education publishing and ed-tech related links here! Obama’s call for more teachers, kids media preferences, 2.0 de jour, and assessing 21st Century skills all get a nod in a short week....
View ArticleInnovate or Wither – Personal Strategy For Times of Change
In times of disruptive change the cutting edge is the safest place to be. To many people this seems counterintuitive. If there is rapid change the inclination of most people is to circle the wagons...
View ArticleAn Education Consultant Speaks – Design for Teachers – Part 4
Products designed for the classroom must meet the needs of teachers first. If students are the primary users of your instructional materials this may sound a little backwards – but it isn’t. Teachers...
View ArticleEducation Publishing and the Economic Stimulus
What impact will the economic stimulus have on educational materials and technology? A front page New York Times article yesterday left no doubt that education will be a significant part of the...
View ArticleStory-line in Textbooks and Video Games
If you don’t think story-line matters in instructional materials just look at the pie fight over evolution in Texas. At its root this is a battle over which story we use to make sense of how we got...
View ArticleThe Internet – A Golden Age of Literacy?
literacy n. The condition or quality of being literate, especially the ability to read and write. Surpise! It turns out that the generation in school today is writing more and reading more. Several...
View ArticleThe Tribe Gathers
The education publishing tribe’s annual gathering is in New York this week. Today kicks off with the SIIA Ed Tech Business Forum (sold out) at the Princeton Club followed by the AEP CEO Roundtable (2...
View ArticlePorter’s Model Applied to Education Publishing – Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Edition
For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it’s ragin’ It’ll shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are-a-changin’ Bob Dylan Recently PCI’s...
View ArticleFriday Curmudgeon – OER Edition
Quick – what percentage of your iTunes library is produced by amateurs? For that matter how many books on your eReader of choice are self-published works? If you are like most people the answer to both...
View Article7 Reasons Why K12 Education Publishers Exist
Education publishers have taken a lot of fire in the last few years – many believe that we are too big, too powerful, and that things would be better if teachers just wrote their own materials or used...
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