We all need to band together and advocate “for a very different kind of school, dramatically different from the schools we all attended and from the schools envisioned in most ‘school reform.’” So says Milton Chen, senior fellow and executive director emeritus of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and author of Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools. In this episode of Radio TICAL, Milton talks with Michael Simkins about just what that very different kind of school is.
Resources for follow up:
- Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
- Edutopia.org
- Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century – Cisco white paper (down-loadable pdf file)
Every spring the Arkansas Department of Education brings together all recipients of the 
TICAL’s founding director Rowland Baker interviews Dr. David Thornburg. Dr. Thornburg is well known in the field of educational technology. Many of us have enjoyed hearing his formal presentations and reading his books and articles. In this informal discussion, Dr. Thornburg shares how he came to be involved in educational technology in the first place, and what he sees are the most pressing demands of the future.
