Cybertraps Podcast

Heather is a researcher and author in the United States who has spent 15 years studying innovation in education and the rise of blended learning as the enabler of student-centered learning. She is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, as well as The Blended Workbook As the founder of Ready to Blend, Heather leads a team of 150 facilitators in the United States, Middle East, and South America who have been certified to deliver blended-learning workshops to their teachers.   Prior to this role, Heather was a senior research fellow for the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company. She holds a BA magna cum laude in government from Harvard University and an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. She is the mother of five children and lives in Austin, Texas. How student-centered learning matters. We can’t just say go all in or go off and do wholly Waldorf method. Heather on Transformative Principal episode 210 and 211 What is the purpose of school? Having transparency on what kids were learning. Stay away from simulteaching. Opportunities: modalities of instruction that are out of the box. Look for synchronous group discussion. Collaborative experiences. 1 on 1 check ins. Constraints: children are empowered when they use technology to go to any destination - field trip analogy. Gate at the top, but also an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Crash and tell.