Neither Todd Seal nor Dan Meyer agree with my assertion that teachers should be able to identify at least 10 good web sites for their classes. Todd says: I’m typically looking […]
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One of the local school districts here in Iowa had an all-elementary-school chorus concert on Friday. At the beginning, the audience was told Please turn your cell phones off. Please […]
Many of give presentations or deliver training workshops for K-12 or postsecondary educators. As part of those professional development efforts, we have a variety of resources and favorites that we […]
Minnesota is used to being at the top. Our accolades include being one of the best states in the country in which to raise a family, being at the top […]
What is it about power that changes people – or if not changes, brings out those aspects of them that had heretofore lain dormant? As the old adage goes, power […]
In a guest post today, Samantha Miller probes the relation between perceptions and reality in the organic food marketplace. Miller is a graduate student in Journalism at American University. She […]
You’ve probably heard of the trend among America’s city dwellers to grow their own food, but you probably haven’t heard of urbanites raising their own livestock. In a guest post […]
Here are some excerpts from blog posts about last night’s opening keynote by Jean-François Rischard for the ISTE conference… n n Joanna Bobiash: n The keynote was disappointing. It did […]
I am a big fan of student choice. When students work on projects, I think that they should have as much choice as possible regarding both the topic and the […]
n With the April 17 tax filing deadline just around the corner, H&R Block has launched the first-ever “virtual tax experience” in Second Life: nn “The company that first brought […]
Archaeologists have long struggled to explain how the Egyptians got blocks weighing tons to the top of the 481-foot-high Great Pyramid… Now we know the answer – and it doesn’t […]
One of the most compelling arguments for getting an iPhone rather than any other smart phone was always the size and robustness of the Apple app store. In just the […]
The traditional view of global innovation is that innovation from developed markets eventually “trickles down” to emerging markets in the form of lower-end, less-sophisticated products at lower price points. Think […]
In its June issue, Monocle surveys 20 to Watch: the most innovative brands and companies in the world that might just become “the Uniqlos and Hyatts of tomorrow.” These are […]
The fallibility of eye-witness memory is well documented. But what about people’s memories of their own past intentions? This is an issue in memory research with real-life implications.
Will Richardson and Alec Couros are frustrated with their kids’ teachers. Lee Kolbert pushed back. Gary Stager chimed in too as did many others in the various comment areas. n […]
The American School of Bombay (ASB) in Mumbai, India is hosting a 1:1 laptop computing conference in February 2010. While the conference is aimed at other international schools, it should be […]
Are you (or your superintendent) going to be at the AASA conference next week? I’d love to get together Thursday night or Friday morning after my presentation. If so, drop […]
The Iowa Technology Education Connection (ITEC) conference each year is fairly small. Despite its size, however, it tends to bring in some really big-name speakers for its keynote addresses. Last […]
Listen to this post! As promised, here are the results of the Dangerously Irrelevant 2007 Education Blogosphere Survey… I made a short Flash video describing the general findings (or you […]
Since David posted about one of his data-driven decision-making (DDDM) projects yesterday, I thought I’d chime in with some info about a massive DDDM initiative underway here in Minnesota… The […]
We’ve all been floored by the footage and information about the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan (video) and the tsunami that followed. Some of the footage is stunning – like nothing I’ve […]
The other day I asked for examples of practical post-rationality—changes in law or policy that happened because institutions have stopped assuming that people behave rationally. A number of people wrote […]
The question of using genetic enhancement to raise test scores may seem like a bad joke—or science fiction. But U.S. policymakers and families, may need to start asking themselves if they can “win the future” without it.
Professor of the “social studies of science” at M.I.T., Sherry Turkle summarizes her new view with eloquence: “We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
When we feel distant from our work—when it seems wonderfully far away—we are able to think about work in a new way. We have the breakthrough while on break, says Jonah Lehrer.
Some of you know Clay Burell from his first blog, Beyond School. But what most folks don’t know is that Clay was selected by the folks at Change.orgto be their […]
The website Neurotree shows the biographical roots of ideas, mapping them like a genealogical chart—which mentors brought forth which proteges and who in turn mentored others.
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The March 26 issue of U.S. News & World Report includes a cool cover story on what America can learn from the rest of the world: “We have the biggest […]