The Innovator’s Dilemma: Chapter 1

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I've been hearing about disruptive technologies for a few years now, and I've even used the term myself in various presentations. I probably started using it before I knew its origin, that is, Clayton Christensen's 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma. Now with Christensen's newest book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation ...

Mismanaging for the status quo

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Government agencies don't generally have an innovative reputation. But NASA? Come one. If any government entity would be likely to embrace innovation and creative problem solving, certainly the organization that said this (prepare your J.F.K. impersonation) would encourage critical thinking. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go ...

High school students aren’t challenged

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Will references the NYT article and I saw similar results as I was looking over research in preparation for our one-to-one project. Our high school students aren't being challenged. From the article: A large majority of high school students say their class work is not very difficult, and almost two-thirds say ...