Friday, October 30, 2009

Disrupting What?

I finally gave in and skimmed through Disrupting Class, and I think you could easily re-write the book completely omitting the concept of "disruptive innovation."

3 comments:

Chris Lehmann said...

O.k. -- I'll bite... what do you mean? Do you mean that it could all be true without being "disruptive?" If so, is it bad that "disruptive innovation" is the throughline of the text?

Tom Hoffman said...

Yes... I don't think it is actually describing a "disruptive" innovation. I think it is bad that it is mis-framing the conversation. The kinds of innovation we need in education aren't "disruptive."

Peter said...

eruptive? (or for the technophiles, add a dash after the 'e')