The headline says it all. That’s the potential finding from a Cornell study that found a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3, according to a fascinating article by Gregg Easterbrook in Slate.
The effect of early childhood on the brain is significant and cries for more […]
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Maine has instituted a bold program in its schools that provides every middle-school student with a laptop. The program is now moving into high school. The question of course is, for all the money, is it effective?
Results seem mixed. The difference doesn’t show up on test scores necessarily, according to this MSNBC article, but students […]
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Innosight Institute cofounders and Disrupting Class coauthors Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn write about virtual learning and education rising on the radar of the presidential election in their August 19, 2008 piece for the Huffington Post titled, “Virtual Learning Hits Campaign Trail.”
In the piece, Christensen and Horn write about how Senator John McCain […]
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Two of the coauthors of Disrupting Class, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson, joined Paul Miller of Talis in the United Kingdom to conduct a podcast interview about their book as well as to discuss the implications of disruptive innovation for higher education. The result was a wide-ranging discussion that you can listen to […]
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The authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns conducted an interview with Martha Lagace of HBS Working Knowledge. The interview appears in the August 18, 2008 issue at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5978.html.
In the interview, Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson, describe how disruptive innovation can and is […]
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Previously I’ve written about how adult distance learning is proving itself as a fast-growing disruptive innovation. As many have pointed out to me, there are many other disruptive innovations in higher education that are fulfilling critical needs in our society, including community colleges.
It’s a disruption Clay Christensen has written about before (see “Disruptive Innovation for […]
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The Disrupting Class coauthors wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to David Brooks’s recent op-ed in the New York Times. Since the Times published this set of letters recently in response to the column, we thought we’d put our letter up here. It’s below.
Dear Editor,
In his July 29, […]
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Disrupting Class coauthors Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson have a letter to the editor in the August 4, 2008 Washington Post. Titled “Rewarding Teachers as Well as Pupils,” the letter responds to the front-page article “The Odd World of E-School Teachers; Distance From Students Alters Exchange of Ideas” in the […]
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The August 11, 2008 issue of Forbes magazine features a spread around Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson ’s book, Disrupting Class. The excerpt is titled, “How To Change the Way Kids Learn.” The article is an adapted excerpt from the book that gives a high-level summary of the book’s core […]
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Innosight Institute cofounder Michael B. Horn was interviewed by Joan Hamburg on the Joan Hamburg Show on WOR Radio 710 HD in New York City on July 29, 2008. In the interview he talked about the opportunity for computer-based learning and disruptive innovation to change the face of education and move to a student-centric learning […]
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