Imagine each of the blocks below represents 1,000 students. That’s how many members of the public high school class of 2008 will fail to graduate without a diploma. Be sure […]
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The publicity grows regarding our collective ideas for active summer learning with technology. In addition to appearing on the ISU News Service home page and in the Ames (IA) Tribune, […]
I’m a big fan of the videos from Common Craft. I use them constantly in my classes and workshops. Their newest video is Social Media in Plain English: I also […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] When I moved to Iowa from Minnesota, the Iowa Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) didn’t test me before it issued me a driver’s license. It took into account […]
Today we officially topped 60 participants for CASTLE’s first annual summer book club. That’s great! – and many more people than I ever anticipated – but it also presents some […]
I really liked this image of the inverted U from Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability so I decided to make my own version: I’m a strong proponent of data-driven practice, particularly […]
It’s the end of the school year and it’s time for a new contest. In honor of Mike Schmoker’s classic Crayola Curriculum article… What’s the most dismaying / inane / […]
For those of you who are interested, here are the current standings for BlogBall08, our edubloggers’ fantasy baseball league…
Wow. Could The Age of the Millenials have been any more one-sided? I know the audience for 60 Minutes skews older but this episode was pretty over the top, even […]
One of the perks of being named a Leader in Learning by the cable industry is that you usually get a profile in its monthly magazine. This month’s issue of […]
After much deliberation and several delays, Wesley Fryer and I have picked a winner for the NECC button design contest. We had 22 different button submissions. We narrowed it down […]
Postman & Weingartner (1968, p. 23) noted: Knowledge is produced in response to questions. And new knowledge results from the asking of new questions; quite often new questions about old […]
Quick! Name a long term, substantive, sustainable change that occurred in your organization without the active support of your leadership. I’ll wait… That’s what I thought. Now why aren’t you […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn I’m going to do something I’ve never done before as a blogger: resurrect an old post. Over the past few months I’ve read all […]
I’m going to try something new this summer. I just finished reading Influencer: The power to change anything. It’s possibly the best leadership book that I’ve read in years and […]
If you haven’t yet done so, The Rise of the Rest in Newsweek is worth reading. Here’s an excerpt (hat tip to Richard Florida): American parochialism is particularly evident in […]
Greg Davis, Executive Director of Management Support Services (basically he’s the CTO) for the Des Moines (IA) Public Schools received his doctorate on May 9 from Iowa State University. As […]
The News Service Office here at Iowa State University has issued me a challenge: use my online network to come up with some ideas for parents to cure kids’ mid-summer […]
I think I may have just found the opening video for my Monday presentation to the Ames Noon Rotary. Kudos to the Pearson Foundation Digital Arts Alliance and the Consortium […]
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on the CASTLE Advisory Board. We had many, many more applicants than we possibly could take. Although having too many people […]
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Dr. Jim Gee notes: If learning always operates well within the learner’s resources, then all that happens is that the learner’s behaviors get more and more routinized, as the learner […]
Many of you know that I’m asking the edublogosphere to gradually help me flesh out the Moving Forward wiki so that it can be a valuable resource to presenters and […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] My city’s public library is a wonderful place. It hosts a variety of well-attended events, has a phenomenal children’s section, and serves as a real […]
Kudos to Dan Meyer for being named as a 2008 Leader in Learning by the cable industry! A complete list of the winners is at the Leaders in Learning web […]
As promised, here is my interview of Mike Vitelli, CEO of The Gaming Krib: Conversation 29: Interview with Mike Vitelli Happy listening!
My latest article for the American Association of School Administrators is now online. Titled Blocking the Future, it’s only a page long but I’m really excited about it. Here’s an […]
Erin Reilly, Research Director for the New Media Literacies project at MIT, is looking for some New England high schools to pilot test its new Teachers’ Strategy Guide, Reading in […]
I really wanted to like the Creating Valuable Class Web Sites article in the May 2008 issue of Learning and Leading With Technology. I really did. I believe strongly that […]
Dennis Richards, a superintendent in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is trying to get the annual ASCD conference to recognize the power and the potential of the Social Web. Help him out by […]