{"id":2475,"date":"2010-03-15T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:02:12","slug":"mega-schools-technology-and-teachers-from-john-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/15\/mega-schools-technology-and-teachers-from-john-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers &#8212; from John Daniel [via Tony Bates]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mega-schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.routledgeeducation.com\/books\/Mega-Schools-Technology-and-Teachers-isbn9780415872058\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2476\" title=\"Mega-Schools-Feb2010-JohnDaniels\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mega-Schools-Feb2010-JohnDaniels1.jpg\" alt=\"Mega-Schools-Feb2010-JohnDaniels\" width=\"149\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mega-Schools-Feb2010-JohnDaniels1.jpg 149w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mega-Schools-Feb2010-JohnDaniels1-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"toc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.routledgeeducation.com\/books\/Mega-Schools-Technology-and-Teachers-isbn9780415872058\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. Education for All \u2013 Unfinished Business<br \/>\n2. Seeking a Silver Bullet<br \/>\n3. Technology is the Answer \u2013 What is the Question?<br \/>\n4. Open Schools and Mega-Schools<br \/>\n5. Teacher Education at Scale<br \/>\n6. Strategies for Success<br \/>\nAppendix 1: Profiles \u2013 Selected Open Schools and Mega-Schools<br \/>\nAppendix 2: Programmes and Mechanisms for Expanding Teacher Supply<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"video\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8984058\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers [VIDEO]<\/strong><\/a> addresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the EFA campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today\u2019s rapidly growing population of children and young adults and examines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine distance learning and community support and have a proven track record of increasing access at scale.<\/li>\n<li>How to prepare the <strong>10 million new teachers that are required to achieve Education for All by 2015<\/strong> <em>(emphasis DSC)<\/em> by focusing on classroom-based in-service training.<\/li>\n<li>Strategies for <strong>using technology to scale up distance education cost-effectively <\/strong><em>(emphasis DSC).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The creation of a<strong> 21st century educational ecosystem<\/strong> <em>(emphasis DSC) <\/em>that integrates open schooling and teacher education with communities and their school systems.<\/li>\n<li>Successful examples of open schools and teacher education programmes operating at scale around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Tony Bates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2010\/03\/13\/new-book-megaschools-technology-and-teachers\/?\" target=\"_blank\">Original posting from Tony Bates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents 1. Education for All \u2013 Unfinished Business 2. Seeking a Silver Bullet 3. Technology is the Answer \u2013 What is the Question? 4. Open Schools and Mega-Schools 5. Teacher Education at Scale 6. Strategies for Success Appendix 1: Profiles \u2013 Selected Open Schools and Mega-Schools Appendix 2: Programmes and Mechanisms for Expanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,32,3,46,62,133,219,76],"tags":[183,56,566,4,77,601],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-education-technology","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-open-courseware-and-systems","tag-distance-ed","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-k-12","tag-ocw","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}