So here’s a crazy idea… Ask teachers in your building to bring a recent quiz or test to the next staff meeting. Make sure their names are on the assessments […]
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Dean Shareski’s a sharp cookie, Carolyn Foote’s my savior, Miguel Guhlin’s a beach bum, and Doug Johnson’s a curmudgeon. David Jakes is under the bus, Cheryl Oakes likes cobbler, and […]
I’ve been hanging out with the folks from the University of Northern Iowa Instructional Technology program a lot the past two days (from left to right: Dr. Leigh Zeitz, Magda […]
Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts.nThings that have caught my eye… n One of the most interesting articles I’ve read in a longntime n Attractingnthe twentysomething worker. Describes […]
Non-human animals are a lot smarter, and less “reflexive” or “instinct-based” than most people think. And maybe we humans are a bit more reflexive than we’d like to believe.
Reflections on Rapture, Ecstasy, and Technology BY JASON SILVA “All things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe.”. – John Archibald Wheeler Sober, immersive reading is […]
[This is Post 2 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
[This is Post 1 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ma let you finish, because you have one of the bestselling albums of the past five years. Not to get all Kanye about […]
“Can the innovative ‘do-it-yourself’ education movement really replace the dying university model?” Alan Jacobs says universities are decadent outposts in austere times.
On the Internet, we write ourselves into existence. That’s a wonderful thing. It allows us to reach audiences that we otherwise wouldn’t reach. It allows us to try on personas – […]
Roger Wilcox, principal of West Cedar Elementary School in Waverly, Iowa, has a burgeoning YouTube channel that he’s using to communicate with his local community: n n n Here are […]
I have to admit I’ve been warming up a bit to the out-there techno-optimism of Ray Kurzweil displayed so prominently on BIG THINK. He (like lots of people) has been […]
Today is mostly reserved for finishing the edits to the paper I have in review, so I thought I’d provide the answer to MVP #33 (top left). There is some […]
Is the term leadership a euphemism? If so, fornwhat? n Since about half of America is holding a primary or a caucus today, thatnquestion seemed relevant. I’m not sure most […]
Some news for today: Taiwan: Most people don’t realize that the island of Taiwan has potentially active volcanoes. One such volcanic center is the Datun (as known as Tatun) Group, […]
The next phase of ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote crowdsourcing project is now live. Go vote! The top 5 topics were as follows (in order): Effective school leadership for the digital, […]
This week I’d like to award the crimson megaphone to Candace Shively, who blogs over at Think Like a Teacher. I’m a big fan of Candace’s writing style and wish […]
A few years ago I had the opportunity to do a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives. The sense of history was very palpable as we passed around the journals […]
I’ve been tagged by several people to participate in the 8 RandomnThings meme. I usually don’t post about personal stuff on this blog, butngiven that my lastnpost opened me up […]
No more will soldiers’ vision be limited to the socket-embedded spheres that God intended. The Pentagon wants troops to see dangers coming at them from all directions.
This week, Al Jazeera English has launched a major advertising campaign branded, “Demand Al Jazeera in the USA,” to stir public demand for access to the cable news channel. What […]
These days, it seems like the reasonable promise of biotechnology has become INDEFINITE LONGEVITY. Actually, that goal was first articulated by the French enlightenment thinker Condorcet. In order for our […]
What can we learn from visualizing the nature and shape of collective decisions about the inclusion of a topic in Wikipedia?
n nOver the (very brief) July 4th holiday, I had a chance to catch up some innovation-related reading. This cover story in the current New York Times Magazine, for example, […]
nnn For those of you who been following the whole sub-prime meltdown on Wall Street and the spectacular collapse of legendary investment bank Bear Stearns this week… a Bear Stearns […]
3-D printing and rapid prototyping have been among the hottest trends in design innovation this year. But Urbee, a two-passenger hybrid vehicle whose entire body has been generated using a […]
If you’re not a gamer, it’s hard to imagine why 183 million Americans spend over 13 hours a week playing video games. It’s even harder to see why game designer Jane […]
If you say “it’s snowing hard out there,” are you annoyed if no one gets up to shovel the walkway?
Dissertations are difficult things. There are multiple reasons why most folks don’t have one. Here are some words of wisdom that I’ve heard from others and now pass along to […]