Just a little bit of holiday cheer from Mark Fiore…

I’m waiting for the day that we actually stop to consider the ramifications of our actions on the rest of the world. I think I might be waiting a long time.

Technology and Learning Magazine — a web site and print magazine that I’ve long thought was one of the best out there for technology educators — is hopefully running a piece I’ve written about beaconschool.org. I spoke at their conference in NYC recently, and I finally got around to contacting them about Beacon’s web site being one of the "School of the Month" sites, and they got back in touch with me wanting an article too. I sent them a piece I wrote a while back as a sort of "is this what you’re looking for?" thing, and the director thought that was exactly what she was looking for.

So I just updated it to talk about some of the additions — like blogging — we’re doing this year, and I must say, I’m really excited about it. It’s rather cool when a publication that you think is really top-notch thinks you’re pretty cool too.

This entry comes from some notes I was writing during my grad class on Ethics in Administration with Professor Sobol. We were talking a piece of writing from lefty-academic Michael Apple about why a national curriculum is a bad idea.

There is so much focus on assessment and measuring outcomes right now in education, and that’s a big problem. Education is a process, not an outcome, and therefore we are really looking at the wrong thing with the entire standards
movement.