Episode 8

Introductions Brent Loken, the Director of Curriculum and Innovation at Hsinchu International School (HIS) joined Jeff and David for tonight’s show. Brent has a Web site and a blog where you can read more about his ideas. Essential Question How to Shift? David> See his blog post for his Top 10 list of steps to take to shift. Jeff> We need to think about the effect of small, start up schools like HIS and how they might bypass the traditional schools to offer the 21st century learning that our international corporate parents are realizing their children need. Take away from the discussion> -It is usually an evolutionary approach in most schools for them to slowly make the shift to School 2.0. -So much more difficult to shift schools with history and culture that won't adapt. But we cannot stop our efforts! -If you are fortunate to be at a small school or one just starting up, you have a much better chance of getting everyone of like minds and beliefs onboard to take a mo