This blog post is republished with permission from Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant.

A number of folks have been eagerly encouraging schools to ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic. Here is a smattering of such articles:

• A time for disruptive innovation in education
• COVID-19 as a catalyst for educational change
• Restarting and reinventing school: Learning in the time of COVID and beyond
• What if we… don’t return to school as usual
• We must not re-open unless we’ve re-thought and re-imagined
• We can’t return to status quo when this pandemic is over
• Now is the time to redefine learning – not recreate traditional school online

I’m guilty of this too. I even helped create an entirely new conversation series, Silver Lining for Learning, that was intended to ‘reimagine learning and teaching’ and examine the possibilities for ‘transformative improvements.’

The more I think about this idea, though, the more skeptical I am. One reason is the continued unwillingness of many (most?) school systems to reconsider even a small iota of what they do. Tragically, we continue to see traditional systems of education being shoehorned into virtual or blended delivery…