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I do a lot of other writing besides blogging for Dangerously Irrelevant. As some of you may have noticed, I recently added a Publications button to this blog (on the […]

‘We may need to seriously rethink the university and its future.’ [feel free to substitute ‘school’ for ‘university’] Another thought-provoking video by Dr. Michael Wesch. Happy viewing!

“The budget is a profoundly moral document,”  former Clinton advisor Paul Begala told Greg Sargent. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be.” Budgets, after all, reflect our priorities. […]

Here is a 2–minute video of me talking about CASTLE and my teaching, part of the Humanizing Science series by the College of Human Sciences here at Iowa State University. […]

I am pleased to announce that my presentation for the 2008 K12 Online Conference is now available! Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations Happy viewing, everyone. The original […]

I’m not quite sure what to make of this Shocking Economics 2008 video but it’s definitely thought-provoking. Sources are available at the American Freedom University web site. Happy viewing!

A video for those of you who get frustrated with others who are less technology proficient. I confess that people who still type URLs into search boxes drive me nuts […]

[cross-posted at CASTLE’s 1-to-1 Schools blog] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference, I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop […]

Thanks to instructions from the kind folks at Mashable, this blog is now available in a Kindle edition. I think you now have at least four different ways to connect […]

One of the hottest ideas in business and technology is the idea of leveraging gaming technology to solve real world problems. Now is the time for the healthcare industry to take notice.

Florida Virtual School’s second online course / video game, Conspiracy Code Intensive Reading, appears to be ready. I blogged about Conspiracy Code American History a year and a half ago. […]

The newest video by Common Craft is about augmented reality. Lately I’ve been showing some augmented reality examples to school administrators, just to give them a taste of what’s to come… […]

If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video created by Shawn Gormley and Kevin Honeycutt that highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers: Thanks, […]

Many of you have been participating in and/or following the conversations for this year’s CASTLE Summer Book Club.  I am pleased to announce that my interview today with Dr. Dan […]

Below is a nifty video, Mobile Year in Review 2010, that highlights some of the changes we saw last year related to mobile phones and computing. My favorite statistic is this […]

I changed the blue button on the right side of this blog. It now reads Top posts. If you click on the button, you will see a running list of […]

Seth Godin’slatest talk at TED is now available. In his presentation, he talks about leadership, change, group action, and other ideas from his newest book, Tribes. Here is perhaps my […]

Gross domestic product is taken to be the leading indicator of national well-being. But we should ask ourselves: is it really wise to accord such importance to growth?

I was recently cited in an Education Week article, The Knowledge Gap , that addressed the technology-related knowledge of school leaders. The article echoes many of the themes from two […]

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 […]

Many of you have never seen these parodies of the old Monster.com commercial… Happy viewing! Teacher Movie (Marco Torres & Lesley University) Administrator Movie (Wes Fryer & University of Central Oklahoma)

Are schools dangerously irrelevant? Watch the video to hear some of my thoughts…

I was one of the faculty members interviewed by the Associated Press for an article on technology integration in higher education. I think the article came out pretty well. It’s […]

Here’s a 2–minute video about 21st century schooling and curricula that was created by one of our Educational Administration Master’s students, Steven Hopper, here at Iowa State University. I can take […]

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 […]

The latest installment of the Report of the Week (ROTW) comes from Education Sector: Labeled: The Students Behind NCLB’s ‘Disabilities’ Designation Here’s a quote from the report: [B]ecause the majority […]

Our natural sunny or negative dispositions might be a more powerful predictor of future happiness than any specific event, suggests a new study of human psychology.

Here’s another envisioning of the forms that traditional print publications are going to take as tablet eReaders and computers become more prevalent. This one is from Penguin Books and shows what […]

Dangerously Irrelevant has been loading slowly lately because it’s so video-heavy. I’ve temporarily removed some other elements in order to speed up loading of the home page. I also vowed to […]

I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. I’ve taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate […]