On Monday I published the final list of Leadership Day 2010 posts. Today I’m going to highlight a few that, for one reason or another, particularly resonated with me. This is […]
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Al-Ittihad, a newspaper from the UAE, has a story out today that claims Said Ali al-Shihri was killed when a bomb he was assembling exploded, killing him and wounding five […]
[cross-posted at eduwonkette; see also her response] When eduwonkette asked me to guest blog about data-driven decision-making in schools, I eagerly agreed. Why? Because in my work with numerous school […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn We can imagine a continuum of frequency of technology usage that looks something like this (click on image for larger version): n n People […]
Taking a test is not just a passive way to assess how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and works better than various other techniques.
Today marks the opening in Washington, DC of the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest event dedicated to science, policy, and culture. […]
n nIdeas are the life-blood of the innovation community. With that in mind, over on the Principled Innovation blog, Jeff De Cagna announces the launch of a new series of […]
n Last December, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would become “The Year of the Widget.” In many ways, this prediction is turning out to be an accurate one. Realizing that online […]
Gawker Media has Gizmodo, Lifehacker, The Consumerist, Valleywag, Gawker, and seven others. Weblogs, Inc. has Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, Luxist, Download Squad, and too many others to count. Education Week and […]
Greg Davis, who’s on the CASTLE Advisory Board, sent me the Change is Good video yesterday. It’s cute and makes some good points. Here are a few that stood out […]
This map, distributed in France in the last year of the First World War, uses a trope common to a lot of cartographic propaganda: the enemy as an octopus, a […]
One of the most wonderful things about the emerging global superbrain is that information is overflowing on a scale beyond what we can wrap our heads around.
There is a point in every child’s development where he begins to realize that the content of his parents’ minds is different than that in his own, says author Malcolm […]
My goal for June: 30 days, 30 book reviews. Today’s book is Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America, by Allan Collins and […]
As part of our never-ending quest to tap into the potential of social media to enhance the practice of school administrators (and the university programs that prepare them), I am pleased […]
This year I started writing a column in the SAI Report, the monthly PDF newsletter put out by the School Administrators of Iowa for its members. With SAI’s permission, I’ve […]
As a technology leadership guy who also happens to have a law degree, I often get asked legal questions related to school technologies. Today, at the request of Miguel, I’m […]
The mobile device has become such a ubiquitous technology that it is redefining the way we engage with people, information, and companies. It is changing society’s social fabric.
n n In less than a month, the Business Innovation Factory will be hosting the third annual Collaborative Innovation nSummit (BIF-3) on October 10th and 11th in Providence, Rhode nIsland. […]
“Effective signals in a marketplace have the characteristic that the people with a high quality product have lower costs of emitting the signal than people with a low quality product, […]
It’s the end of the school year and it’s time for a new contest. In honor of Mike Schmoker’s classic Crayola Curriculum article… What’s the most dismaying / inane / […]
I’m live blogging from the SETDA Leadership Summit… n 21st century skills n Frances Bradburn, Director of Instructional Technology, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction n n State has signed […]
The Wikipedia gap I don’t know about you, but when I hire someone, or go to the doctor or the architect or an engineer, I could care less about how […]
Forty-one states use the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders as the model for their administrator certification and preparation programs. The ISLLC standards currently are under […]
“You put super in front of eruption and I don’t imagine it makes it better.” – FEMA Sec. Wendy Reiss in Supervolcano. This week in my Freshman Volcanoes class here […]
Given the Internet’s decentralized structure, it is virtually impossible to shut down this outlaw conduit and its public releases of secret government and corporate information.
On the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, venture capitalist and tech visionary Esther Dyson weighs in on the emergence of new aviation and commercial space start-ups and explains […]
UPDATE: See additional reponse to statements made by Joe Romm. Last night marked the release of the report Climate Shift: Clear Vision for the Next Decade of Public Debate, part of a […]
I have enjoyed serving as the first guest blogger for Dangerously Irrelevant. I have benefited from the time to reflect on issues relevant to technology leadership in schools and I […]
In addition to the white paper that I wrote for Microsoft that summarized essential data-driven decision-making concepts for teachers and principals, I also wrote a second white paper that summarized […]