n Larry Ferlazzo has a fantastic post about the videos at TED Talks and a variety of supporting resources for teachers, presenters, etc. This is a must read! n In […]
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Michael Port says… n n When we are thinking small, we crave preordained outcomes. We want to know what’s going to happen before we begin. Control is an illusion. The […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Most of [the] earlier outsourcing dealt with manufacturing and factory workers. . . . The newest wave is different. It’s white-collar outsourcing . . . […]
Richard Longworth says… n n State officials know perfectly well that globalization will swallow their traditional industries. But they’re stuck. Workers vote, and a voter who has just lost his […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Men and women who carried lunch pails and spent their days on assembly lines could earn good wages, own their own homes, feed their families, […]
Five online resources worth checking out… TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live. The Des Moines Register profiled an […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… Edjurist Scott Bauries discussed how the No Child Left Behind Act has introduced some new angles […]
Mark Ramsey notes that your web site / blog visitors ask two primary questions: Why should I come at all? Why should I come back? Whether you’re a corporation, government, […]
In my never-ending quest to wrap my head around workforce data despite no background or training whatsoever, I’ve been playing around with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site. […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… LeaderTalk James Yap discussed how a highly-acclaimed deaf education program actually treats deafness as a pathology. […]
Five online resources worth checking out… “We need to be inspired. We need to be encouraged. We need to spend time doing things we love. We want to change the […]
We’re down to two weeks before the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club starts and we’ve got 81 participants signed up already. That’s great! We will be reading Why Don’t Students […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Shelly Blake-Pock takes on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Mashable highlights the top 7 Twitter tutorials on YouTube. America likes to foist its […]
Michael Port says… Revolution is about one person at a time experiencing their own personal empowerment against an existing, deficient (small thinking) system. (p. 13) We are the biggest obstacle […]
Back in February I noted that parents are using online tools to push back on their local school districts. Embodying the themes expressed in Clay Shirky’s excellent book, Here Comes […]
A two-part tale of higher education and online instruction… n “Students demand free beer too” n A May 29 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reads as follows: n […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… EdJurist Over at CASTLE’s education law blog, Justin Bathon noted that eventually we need to ‘get over’ […]
If you’d like to know what a good statewide 21st century school leadership development program looks like, have we got a podcast for you! This morning we had Episode 6 […]
Hmmm, let’s see… A learning institute in Manchester, New Hampshire in July. Well, Manchester routinely appears on lists of best places to live. It’s in New England, which will be […]
Thanks to instructions from the kind folks at Mashable, this blog is now available in a Kindle edition. I think you now have at least four different ways to connect […]
I just finished reading The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Dr. Pietra Rivoli, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. It was quite an interesting book. Here are […]
After much deliberation, I’ve decided to do another online summer book club. I’m supposed to be taking the summer off but last year’s discussion of Influencer: The Power to Change […]
Two girls post a cartoon video on YouTube that depict “The Top 6 ways to Kill Piper!” Piper is an elementary school classmate of theirs at Elk Plain School in Spanaway, Washington. […]
After a recent presentation here in Iowa that included some discussion of Twitter, a superintendent came up to me and said, “Okay, I’m in. But how will I find people […]
Continuing the theme of my last post, how great would it be if every school, district, or university Twitter feed was in one place? The aggregated posts would give us a sense of […]
Chuck Heinlein, Director of the Leadership Center for 21st Century Schools at the West Virginia Department of Education, will be our guest tomorrow on the 4 Guys Talking podcast. Chuck […]
I’m trying to get a handle on who’s reading Dangerously Irrelevant (it’s not as easy as you might think). So I thought the best way would be to just ask! […]
Here are my top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the TED presentations that I think are most likely to interest, […]
Here are my top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the K12 Online presentations that I think are most likely to interest, […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… LeaderTalk At LeaderTalk, Barbara Barreda proposed that we “join our teachers in the ritual of closing […]