Blog Archive
Recent Blog Entries | View archive
Disrupting Everything
Having attended a half-dozen or so ed tech conferences over the past few months, one thing is clear. The book "Disrupting Class", by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, has quickly jumped to the center of the education universe, referenced in nearly every conversation about the role of technology in education. If you have not yet read Disrupting Class my advice would be to jump over to Amazon and order your…
Read MoreThe Integrated Classroom. Start with Control.
Video projectors and interactive white boards are without question the most visible symbols of the 21st century classroom. The truth is their position is more than symbolic. The ability to project a computer image on a large screen, creating a shared experience, combined with the interactive tools afforded by the white board, profoundly change classroom dynamics for the better. Done well, it's inclusive, engaging, nuanced, interactive and collaborative. It's all…
Read MoreBehind the Walls Counts.
First, some perspective. Calypso Systems manufactures products used to build, manage and use media-rich K-12 classrooms. As President of this 4-year old company, I'm enjoying a close-up view of the evolution of 21st century education - a market still relatively new to me. With nearly 20,000 classrooms deployed with Calypso products over the past few years, I like to believe we're beginning to have enough scale where we may, in…
Read More