This came through my RSS reader under the title Be Part of Sept. 29 Live Chat with Liberarting Learning Blog Contributor Michael B. Horn from the blog Liberating Learning.
Michael B. Horn, coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill) will be part of a live chat with EdReformer.com’s Douglas Certs and Andrew Barras on Sept. 29 at 12 noon EST.
Horn is the Executive Director, Education, of the Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. A new, updated edition of Disrupting Class was published and is now available.
For more information about the live chat, go to edreformer.com.
Given the line-up and who is sponsoring the event, I suspect that it would be of little use for me to bother to attend this chat. But if you want to hear from a bunch of proponents of the conservative, deschooling agenda via cyber schooling; I’d encourage you to attend.
I’m curious about your comment that “given who is sponsoring the event,” you have have little use to attend the chat. It would help me if you elaborated.
Comment by DC — September 26, 2010 @ 9:57 pm |
Doug, it is nothing personal, I just don’t believe in your politics. From Michael Horn to EdReformer to the Liberating Learning folks, they all present a conservative belief that the introduction and/or application of business principles into the public education system is the panacea that will solve everything that ails the system. I don’t agree, I see that as simply undermining any real opportunities for reform within public education and allow businesses to make profit from tax dollars. I’m familiar with your blog, along with Michael’s and the Liberating Learning blog. I’ve heard Michael speak on several occasions (and have argued with him here and on his blog more than once). I’ve heard Terry speak. I’ve read both of their books. I know what will be said and politically it represents one viewpoint – unfortunately what is becoming the dominant viewpoint in educational reform. I guess its true that money does equal speech in the US, which explains a lot to me on this issue.
Comment by mkbnl — September 27, 2010 @ 5:03 pm |