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Sunday, August 9, 2020

Andy Hargreaves: The Education Technology We Will and Won’t Need After the Pandemic | Diane Ravitch's blog

Andy Hargreaves: The Education Technology We Will and Won’t Need After the Pandemic | Diane Ravitch's blog

Andy Hargreaves: The Education Technology We Will and Won’t Need After the Pandemic
Andy Hargreaves is an internationally renowned scholar and author who taught for many years at Boston College. He wrote this article about education technology for Valerie Strauss’s blog “The Answer Sheet.”
I previously posted a presentation that Andy delivered at an international conference in South Korea, where he described his vision of the future post-pandemic. It was brilliant and points in the direction we should be heading.
Strauss writes about Andy (who is a personal friend of mine):
Hargreaves is a research professor at Boston College and visiting professor at the University of Ottawa who has been working for decades to improve school effectiveness. He has been awarded visiting professorships in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Sweden, Spain, Japan, Norway and Singapore. And he is past president of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement.
Hargreaves founded and serves as co-president of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory, or ARC, a group of nine nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, well-being, inclusion, democracy and human rights. He has consulted with numerous governments, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, universities and professional associations. He has written more than 30 books — and received CONTINUE READING: Andy Hargreaves: The Education Technology We Will and Won’t Need After the Pandemic | Diane Ravitch's blog