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Check out this excerpt from Michael McVey’s post at LeaderTalk. So very, very sad… ‘I read that the prestigious University of Chicago Business School will accept four-slide presentations from applicants […]
Ken Pruitt has posted three great questions for school districts: What are the 21st century skills we want our teachers to model? How can we provide consistent and relevant training […]
Nora Carr wrote in eSchoolNews in February about the need for schools to have policies regarding employee blogs. I thought it was interesting that she cited Harvard Law School’s policy […]
I don’t like Internet filters, and not just because many folks can’t read my blog (thanks, Mark!). I don’t like them because they impede political awareness (see, e.g., Andy Carvin’s […]
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 […]
As you can probably tell, I’m reading The New Influencers by Paul Gillin. I’ve already read The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil and Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & […]
Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) is going to do an interview with Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind. I’m part of a group that PDK has invited to submit […]
I’m pleased to announce that Dr. Linda Orozco, Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University – Fullerton, will be my guest blogger next week. Linda is interested in technology […]
A little fun on Friday from The Onion: Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash Be sure to read the scrolling news feed at the bottom!
My academic colleague, Dr. Jon Becker, and I are working on an online school law guide for NASSP. As part of that process, he and I put a list of […]
Earlier this month I asked if we educational technology advocates could articulate a clear vision of what lies at the other end of all of this change for which we’re […]
Will Richardson voiced his frustration in a recent post about the trouble that he’s having getting teachers to focus on the potential of Web 2.0 tools to enhance their own […]
I just learned you can post to blogs from Word 2007 (thanks, Six Apart!). Anyone doing this? If so, how’s it working?
In his comment last week, Jack Phelps, founder of ChitCh.at (which looks interesting, by the way!), noted that there’s always an adoption curve. The challenge, of course, is to reduce […]
A few choice items related to virtual worlds… Dr. Judith Donath hypothesizes a day when spammers will use avatars to scam money from us. Dr. Edward Castronova, author of the […]
The latest Report of the Week (ROTW) is actually two reports, both related to Internet connectivity. The first report, brought to my attention by David Warlick , comes from the […]
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 […]
I’m typing this in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming airport. Over the past five days I have had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go on a retreat with a group of corporate […]
My latest Report of the Week (ROTW) comes from the Pew Internet and American Life Project : Cyberbullying and Online Teens Here’s a quote from the report: There’s one MySpace […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] On June 28, I invited bloggers and readers to participate in Leadership Day on July 4. Specifically, I asked participants of the blogosphere to write […]
Here’s a challenge for all of us educational technology advocates… Can we articulate in a few short sentences or paragraphs what the end result looks like? Children learning collaboratively, students […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] When we talk about technology in K-12 schools, why must we focus on school leaders? Well, as the Wallace Foundation Learning from Leadership Project reminds […]
Every once in a while I make a comment on someone else’s blog that I also wish was on my own. This is one of those occasions… Karl Fisch wrote […]
I’ve been laying low for a few days, giving Did YounKnow? 2.0 the opportunity to get some traction. So far, so good,nalthough I don’t expect it to get as much […]
Many of our school leaders (principals, superintendents, central office administrators) need help when it comes to digital technologies . A lot of help, to be honest. As I’ve noted again […]
In fact, I triple dog dare you… The resilience of teacher culture (6:28) [Dr. Elmore‘s full speech and other excerpts are available on my Podcasts page]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Last week I triple dog-dared readers to listen to an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Richard Elmore of Harvard University: The resilience of teacher culture (6:28) […]
Is it already July 3? Way back on June 20 I had the pleasure of talking with Chris Craft about online learning for a class he’s taking. The focus was […]