12/16/010

The big day has arrived. Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning is available on Amazon.com . . . and soon to be available as a Kindle eBook. The purpose of our website is to extend Inevitable, to begin a dialogue that clarifies and expands our vision and, ultimately, to create schools that meet the learning needs of every learner every hour of every day.

The timing of Inevitable: MCL could not be better. The public education debate has never been hotter. Although Bea and I believe that much of the criticism of public education is unfair, we also believe that there is need for systemic fundamental change if schools are going to meet today’s expectations and demands.

We are happy with both the appearance and content of our book. If Waiting for Superman identified the problem, Mass Customized Learning is a large part of the answer.

Everyone appears to agree that education must change, must improve, but everything being suggested seems to fall into the “tinkering change” category . . . Waiting for Superman included. Nothing being proposed and no one doing the proposing get to the heart of what keeps schools functioning as Industrial Age bureaucracies. Reformers can’t seem to get out of the “having school” box. (cjs)

Until education reformers replace the fundamental instructional time-based delivery system that makes time the constant and learning the variable, we can expect to continue to miss the learning needs of many learners and continue to get Industrial Age results. In short, we all act as though the Industrial Age school structure is a given, a starting point, and any change must retain that outdated structure. Inevitable clearly provides a desirable and doable alternative. Join us as we learn how to use the customizing technology that we all experience daily to meet the learning needs of every learner every day. We are on to something big!

Thought you might find the following article/link interesting.....about schools trying to have students go at their own pace. It is not MCL, but on a certain level they know that it is - well - inevitable! BMcG

htpp//saving17000kids/kansascity.com/articles/remaking-schools/

Our webpage was created to extend and support our soon-to-be-published book titled Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning. After publishing books using the services of publishing companies we decided to self-publish Inevitable. We are self-publishing through the services of CreateSpace which is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. We are getting fast, professional, and helpful services . . . they are actually treating us like customers.

Our Mass Customized Learning (MCL) vision at this point is quite detailed but needs to continue to grow and expand. MCL is very new and its implementation demands significant systemic change . . . and that is an understatement.

We wish to make our Mass Customized Learning Blog highly interactive. We want to hear from you, we want to answer questions, we want to share experiences and successes. In short, we want to create a dialogue that will help us and help you to grow.

Our expertise includes leadership, future-focusing, strategic design/planning, the change process, and effective instructional strategies. Both Bea (McGarvey) and Chuck (Schwahn) have had extensive consulting experiences on these topics . . . mostly with schools but also with business and industry.

The purpose of our website and of our blog is to inform, to learn, and to influence. Our personal missions are “That People Grow.”

We often use the quote . . . from where or from whom we don’t know . . . “None of us is as smart as all of us.” We are passionate and committed to our work, but we are not “know-it-alls.” At least we hope not.