DISRUPTING CLASS

In one of my CSUSM classes this summer, Dr. Sharon Sutton mentioned the book “Disrupting Class – How Disruptive Innovation Will change the Way the World Learns” by Clayton M. Christensen... so I picked up the book.

What an outstanding and practical read – the book is ambitious in its premise and very real in its delivery. The book brings to bear the success of Christensen in the business world dealing with innovation.

Here are some quotes:

“The students who succeed in schools do so largely because their intelligence happens to match the dominant paradigm in use in a particular classroom – or somehow they have found ways to adapt to it.”

“The question now facing schools is this: Can the system of schooling designed to process groups of students in standardized ways in a monolithic instructional mode be adapted to handle differences in the way individual brains are wired for learning?”

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in improving education.