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The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) is an incredible technology leadership resource for school administrators. If you have not spent some time on the TICAL web site, you […]

I’ve had a lot of fun guest blogging over at The Des Moines Register this week. For those of you who would like to have a single link that you […]

[This is a guest post from Carl Anderson. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] By now it is an old story but […]

As we turn our lives into information property, technology poses fundamental threats to privacy, anonymity and freedom. Salim Ismail outlined these threats in his presentation at Big Think’s Farsight 2011 […]

My mother had always been a suspicious and secretive person, but it wasn’t until I was 14 that she really went nuts—with many of the same symptoms described in Rachel […]

Today is the last day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post addresses teacher professional development regarding classroom Internet usage. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, […]

Most educators have a national association that advocates for the educational, work, and political interests related to their particular role in schools. For example, teachers have NEA and AFT, counselors […]

I was in Catholic community center today for a sporting event when a brightly colored poster on a bulletin board caught my eye. The picture was of a parachutist falling […]

Cable in the Classroom is sponsoring its annual Media Smart Research Award : Media literacy is a key 21st Century skill because it provides a framework and method to think […]

Any actions associated with zero costs tend to become debased over time, says technologist Jaron Lanier. Search is no different.

I previously posted about wireless technologies in less developed nations. Kofi Annan supported this view nearly 4 years ago! One cool indigenous Wi-Fi innovation, is the Cambodian motoman. Here, motorcycle […]

Earlier this month I asked if we educational technology advocates could articulate a clear vision of what lies at the other end of all of this change for which we’re […]

Everyone knows someone that has been touched by cancer. Over one and a half million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2011, and more than 560,000 […]

How to gauge how sound the academic mainstream in a given field is likely to be, and how justified one would be to dismiss contrarians out of hand.

It definitely hasn’t been quiet geologically around the planet, but news about volcanism seems to be in a bit of a lull right now. Most of what I’ve run across […]

Continuing the theme of my last post, how great would it be if every school, district, or university Twitter feed was in one place? The aggregated posts would give us a sense of […]

Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]

Earlier today, Dr. Boris Behncke posted a link to some fascinating images of the dome growing at the summit of Nevado del Huila (see below) in Colombia. The volcano started […]

Remember those “compare and contrast” essay questions back in college, in which you had to write intelligently on liberal arts topics drawn from history, philosophy or political science? Within the […]

Social media, most notably Facebook and Twitter, have featured prominently in recent years as tools of the opposition in insurrections against entrenched regimes.

Last December I posted the below video, which is about cyberbullying. Some young people who say they are ‘cutters’ and/or are having suicidal thoughts are leaving comments on the blog post. […]

In case you missed the news, Google’s latest service, Buzz, is now available to most users of Gmail. Here are three Google Buzz conversations from which I’m learning a lot: […]

Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Over the next week and a half, I will profile eight bloggers that I’ve found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective. […]

Discussions of China tend to focus on size – a nation of over 1.3 billion people certainly deserves attention from business and investors worldwide. But, ‘total’ numbers reveal little about […]

Big Think spoke to The New York Times chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, about the present and future state of journalism and online criticism. 

by Richard Kassissieh A student gazes at a mystery solution. Its contents are unknown. The student reaches into her toolkit, a set of known solutions, and one by one, combines […]

A while back I shared one of my two favorite passages from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the other one: n n [W]e need to […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 […]

Jeff Utecht says that innAmerica (as opposed to China): n n [W]e focus on getting students to think different, we encourage them tonthink, to analyze, to question their findings. We […]

Jeff Utecht said: I’m worried these type of get out the tools and play sessions where we are all learning and teaching will be forced out of the Blogger’s Cafe. […]