My goal for June: 30 days, 30 book reviews. Today’s book is Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education by Terry Moe and John Chubb. I posted […]
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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 […]
My goal for June: 30 days, 30 book reviews. Today’s book is Teaching With Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, & More: Dozens of Easy Ideas for Using Technology to Get Kids Excited […]
Most folks think I have it pretty easy as an academic. And they’re right: tenured professors at a big university in a nice Midwest college town ain’t exactly breaking rocks […]
Well, I think the Tech&Learning 100@30 list just got a LOT more interesting… New additions include a few popular edubloggers such as Chris Lehmann, Gary Stager, Joyce Valenza, and David Warlick. It’s […]
I’ve set an ambitious goal for this June: 30 days, 30 book reviews. I’m going to start with what probably was my favorite book from last year, Ignore Everybody: And 39 […]
Sarah Daly (@IrishAsian05) – a self-described Spanish teacher, school counselor, almost criminologist, Notre Dame grad, shoe addict, and pug lover in New Jersey – is my 6,000th Twitter follower. Thanks for the follow, Sarah, and […]
[This is a guest post from Don Watkins, responding to an earlier guest post by Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy […]
Yesterday’s article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer was titled Teachers’ Seniority Rights Under Assault in Cleveland, Across Nation. The article highlights the growing battle over seniority provisions in collective bargaining […]
[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]
[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]
[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today I am […]
[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]
[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today the Crimson […]
This is a must-watch video by Hans Mundahl, Director of Experiental Learning and Technology Coordinator at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire. Not only does Hans have a cool […]
Here’s an activity you can do with school administrators and teachers (and maybe school board members?). Total time: about 45 minutes.n
For those of you who haven’t noticed (yes, I’m talking to you, RSS subscribers), Dangerously Irrelevant now has a new look! I finally made the switch from TypePad to WordPress. […]
CASTLE’s1to1 Schools group blog gets more popular every day. Over the last three days it has passed the 500 subscribers mark. If you’re interested in issues related to 1:1 laptop programs and […]
I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here […]
It’s tough to know when to scale back. We have causes and people that we’re committed to, responsibilities that we want to fulfill, teams that we want to support, and […]
Here are three quotes from Stefana Broadbent’s excellent TED Talk: there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions — institutions that are the institutions that […]
As a school law instructor and tenured associate professor of educational leadership, I perhaps have a different view of tenure than most P-12 teachers. As we look to what the […]
Judy Jeffrey announced yesterday that she is retiring as the Director of the Iowa Department of Education. She has been a tremendous supporter of revamping the ways that Iowa schools […]
What is the biggest barrier to moving schools forward into a technology-suffused, globally-interconnected era? Our mental models of what schooling should look like. Unfortunately, most educators, parents, and policymakers have no idea what […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] n As school leaders, we have the responsibility to n n Facilitate learning environments that are respectful, empowering, and engaging for students n Create workplaces that are […]
Is this school in New York City the future of schooling? The School of One: Program Overview (see also the write-ups at Teaching Matters and The Huffington Post)
Yesterday I got the e-mail below. I watched the video trailer and made my contribution this morning. Crazy high school robots battling it out for engineering supremacy? How can you […]
My teaching philosophy is pretty straightforward. I believe that the teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher. all students can, will, and want to […]
You can’t get to outer space with a rowboat. You need something with a little more oomph.nNeither can you get to genuine 21st century learning environments without putting a computer in every kid’s hands. Not just some of the time. All of the time.n
Not sure how I missed this video last October but, in case you haven’t seen it, here’s You can’t be my teacher. Happy viewing!