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Occasionally I have a guest blogger here at Dangerously Irrelevant just to spice things up a bit. You can read past guests’ contributions by clicking on the Guest Bloggers category. […]
Edublogs has come out with an online magazine. One of the articles reports on Aseem Badshah’s attempt to list the ‘top edubloggers’ (as measured by Technorati ranking). Although I’m delighted […]
There’s a new documentary about to come out: 2 Million Minutes: A Global Examination. It profiles 6 high school students from China, India, and the United States. Watch the movie […]
This week’s recipient of the crimson megaphone is Carolyn Foote, a high school librarian in Austin, Texas. Carolyn blogs at Not So Distant Future and is definitely someone that deserves […]
Three men who were willing to risk all for an important cause. How brave will we need to be to transition our schools into the 21st century? Are we willing to […]
Here’s a short video of Seth Godin: Curious Here’s the money quote: For 7, 10, 15 years of school, you are required to not be curious. Over and over and […]
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 […]
My latest higher education article for Technology & Learning , Knowledge Networks , is now available. The article draws deeply from my previous blog posts, Linked, Scholarship 2.0 , and […]
Educon 2.0 begins today. Do I wish I was one of the attendees? Absolutely! Follow along at the conference wiki , via RSS, via UStream, via Technorati, in Second Life, […]
It’s time to name the next recipient of the crimson megaphone! This week I pick Scott Meech’s blog, Technology in Education isn’t the Future… It is the Present!, as one […]
Here are some new videos I have recently run across: Blogs in Plain English Online Photo Sharing in Plain English Google Docs in Plain English Having Our Say: Middle Grade […]
For those of you who are interested, here are some blogs that cover school law issues: At the Schoolhouse Gate The Edjurist Accord The School Law Blog School and Education […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] Update: As of October 2010, I now have about 22,000 subscribers to this blog. Alter my calculations accordingly… According to Feedburner, I currently have about […]
Following up on yesterday’s post, many school districts have taken great care to define the essential duties and responsibilities of employees’ jobs (typically for legal, rather than educational, purposes). For […]
My colleague, Dr. David Quinn, and I were invited to come help with the ASB Unplugged 1:1 laptop conference for international schools in late February. We’ll be working with the […]
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 […]
Greg Farr makes me laugh ‘til my sides hurt. That’s probably the best endorsement I can give this Texas principal blogger. Greg also blogs for LeaderTalk (and I encourage you […]