I’m on a search for administrator blogs and/or podcasts, particularly those that are using such tools to communicate about school / district issues to their communities. Anyone know of any […]
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Much conversation has occurred in the educational blogging community about DOPA. One of the arguments against DOPA that hasn’t popped up that much is the fact that the perceived problem […]
My local paper, the Star Tribune, had an article today on helicopter parents, those overinvolved moms and dads who hover closely around their children’s school, teachers, and/or administrators. Helicopter parent […]
Much attention has been paid to the value of teachers and/or students blogging. Today I kick off a week-long series of posts that discuss the potential value of blogging by […]
I was delighted to see Miguel Guhlin’s fictional response last week to Anne Davis’ draft letter requesting permission to use Flickr in a hypothetical school district. The brilliant part of […]
NACOL, UCCP, and Pepperdine University are co-sponsoring a regional online learning symposium in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2006. The web site for the symposium states that the presentations, […]
Superintendents and principals are rarely the technology leaders in their organizations. As Director of CASTLE, I say this with both confidence and dismay. Here are a couple of quick examples […]
While browsing in Barnes & Noble last night, I ran across this quote from Joy at Work: The idea of servant leadership in K-12 education is nothing new. As with […]
A recent post by Kevin Carey at The Quick and the Ed highlights one of the essential dilemmas faced by those of us who are working desperately to improve students’ […]
In a previous post I noted that our technology leaders are rarely superintendents or principals, the individuals in formal positions of authority within school districts. So if our technology leaders […]
A few years back I did a nationwide study of district technology coordinators for NCREL, with help from CoSN and QED. Although our response rates were much lower than we […]
Most educators have a national association that advocates for the educational, work, and political interests related to their particular role in schools. For example, teachers have NEA and AFT, counselors […]
In conjunction with its fabulous annual conference, the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) is hosting its first-ever educational technology research symposium. Accepted papers will be published on CD-ROM and in […]
We know – we know! – that sustainable success in schools never occurs without effective leadership. And yet, when it comes to digital technologies, our nation’s school leaders are sorely […]
One of the most important issues in K-12 technology right now is the lack of engagement of administrators who are in formal positions of authority. For example, you can go […]
Is anyone else tired of the constant struggle to get the federal government to invest in our nation’s future (hello, there’s a T in STEM!). I confess that I’m getting […]
Here’s a not-so-secret tidbit for you… If you think states and school districts are doing a poor job of preparing administrators to lead in this digital century, university educational administration […]
“In the long run, we’re all dead,” John Maynard Keynes once said in defense of his brand of economics featuring an array of short-term solutions. It seems like the state […]
It was an elegant accident of editorial timing: two major articles on post-traumatic stress (and the attendant increase in prescription pill use among members of our military), and a beautiful, […]
There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.
What is does the U.S. government actually do? Ezra Klein has an answer. Klein says that when you look at what the U.S. government spends its money on, it’s clear […]
To not even acknowledge the secular tones of the revolution takes a great deal of disillusionment or chutzpah on al-Qaeda’s part.
The next big thing that will rock the Internet is machine to machine connectivity (M2M for short), in other words, machines bypassing people in order to connect to the Internet.
Literature has always been slower than the other art forms to grapple with technological and cultural changes—which is both a source of its continued appeal as well as its potential […]
Ok, since I clearly have some time tonight, I was going to post on the new communications bill and the second dust-up between the al-Ahmar boys and Salih loyalists, but […]
Too busy today (and possibly tomorrow) for a substantive post, but maybe I can sneak in a new Mystery Volcano Photo. If you recall last time, Chris Reykjavik nailed the […]
In discussing the latest books on technology, The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik derides Clay Shirky’s utopian views as “history taken from the back of a cereal box.”
In much the same way Hosni Mubarak (former president of Egypt) constantly and consistently made the argument that he was the only thing standing between Egypt and a radical Islamic […]
There have been many things to blog about lately – Salih’s meeting in Amran with shaykhs from Bakil, even while the Hashid governor watched, Bakil.net’s mocking take on Tariq al-Fadhli’s […]