Darren Rowse had a brilliant idea to ask, “What’s wrong with blogging?” I think we should ask this about the edublogosphere as well. So… What’s wrong with edublogging? (or, if […]
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As part of our never-ending quest to tap into the potential of social media to enhance the practice of school administrators (and the university programs that prepare them), I am pleased […]
I am extremely pleased that Iowa State University approved my request to take my first-ever sabbatical this fall semester. I will be spending the bulk of my time away working […]
Just a few weeks after publicizing our first-ever Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I), we already have over 300 people who have registered to attend on April 7. Our registration is capped at 500, so […]
The ISTE SIGAdmin just asked its membership two questions. Here are my answers… 1. How has the Internet changed thinking? The Internet has allowed distributed thinking (and thus learning) to […]
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Here’s the latest educational technology video that’s making the rounds. I know a few professors like this! “If you are here, why are we Skyping?”
Here’s a 10-minute video I helped make that advocates for P-12 online learning. Created by Intermediate District 287 in Minnesota, which heads up the Northern Star Online collaborative, the video […]
In case you missed the news, Google’s latest service, Buzz, is now available to most users of Gmail. Here are three Google Buzz conversations from which I’m learning a lot: […]
Many of you may have seen this commercial for Kaplan University. It made the rounds in the edublogosphere because of its message about change, talent, and learner-centered instruction. I’ve used it […]
Like most states, Iowa is concerned with the retention rate of its new teachers. Over the past decade Iowa has instituted a number of different efforts to combat new teacher […]
I’m reading a fantastic book right now: Futurecast, by Robert Shapiro. In the section on globalization, Shapiro notes that the first waves of globalization primarily affected manufacturing. Millions of American […]
I am a big fan of student choice. When students work on projects, I think that they should have as much choice as possible regarding both the topic and the […]
A baker’s dozen of great Scott blogs… Dilbert Blog, Scott Adams Scott Berkun, Scott Berkun (wrote a fantastic book, BTW!) Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider, Scott Kelby HELLO, my name is […]
Seth Godin wrote today that: People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: […]
On January 28, several students in the Van Meter Community School District demonstrated to Iowa legislators the work that they are now able to do as a result of the […]
Iowa’s first-ever conference dedicated solely to P-12 laptop programs, the Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I), will be on April 7, 2010 at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines. Administrators, […]
This is the message that I just sent my Education Law and Ethics students (the two cohorts are in Des Moines and Mason City, Iowa). Thought I’d share here too… […]
In case you missed them, here are a couple of slides that Darren Kuropatwa recently posted in the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool: Slide credits Knowledge isn’t in our […]
According to Feedburner, here are the subscriber numbers for Dangerously Irrelevant for the past 7 days. Either Feedburner’s got a glitch in its monitoring/reporting or people are finally discovering my brilliance (it’s […]
Last month I gave an inspired presentation to the Board of Directors for the National Education Association (NEA), our nation’s largest teachers union. As you can see from the NEA’s […]
[Cross-posted at the Iowa 1to1 Network] As the following chart illustrates, more Iowa workers were employed in May 2008 than in any other month in the past two years. Since […]
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), the world’s largest educational research organization, recently adopted some ‘important changes’ to improve the quality of its annual conference. As AERA notes, the purpose of […]
Seth Godin says: If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the change to happen. I’ll be making this argument when it’s time for me […]
I usually am pretty impressed with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). I find that its books typically are of high quality. One of the best conferences I ever […]
Here’s a short Twitter conversation that I had with Mary Zedeck on Wednesday: I’ve been thinking about the question that I asked Mary. I wonder how many P-12 teachers or postsecondary […]
Roger Wilcox, principal of West Cedar Elementary School in Waverly, Iowa, has a burgeoning YouTube channel that he’s using to communicate with his local community: n n n Here are […]
It’s been an interesting few months for ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote project. We have seen twists and turns (what happened to Kevin Honeycutt?), candidates such as Jeff Piontek that were […]
As I’ve said many times: If a teacher gets it, a classroom changes. If a principal gets it, the whole building begins to change. If a superintendent gets it, the […]
The Education Trust has come out with a nifty little report, Gauging the Gaps: A Deeper Look at Student Achievement, that examines different ways of thinking about achievement gaps. Although EdTrust […]