Listen to this post! A couple of days ago Network World had a story on the latest generation of GPS technologies used to track schoolbuses. The Everyday Wireless system that […]
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Listen to this post! The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story on CASTLE’s Principal Blogging Project today: http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938355.html http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938358.html Read it while it’s hot off the press. I think Star […]
Listen to this post! As promised, here are the results of the Dangerously Irrelevant 2007 Education Blogosphere Survey… I made a short Flash video describing the general findings (or you […]
Listen to this post! Here are a couple of recent (and great) posts from Seth Godin: On becoming the (January 15) We tried everything (January 12) How is your organization […]
Listen to this post! I rarely write about technology tools here, but I ran across two web tools recently that I think may be useful for bloggers… Cite Bite. Input […]
Listen to this post! Dan Meyer is a dynamic young math teacher for the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. He totally gets it when it comes to assessment. Here […]
Listen to this post! Pete Reilly’s excellent post should be required reading for school administrators worried about online safety issues. I’ve blogged about this issue before, notably here and here. […]
Listen to this post! Thanks to Seth Godin’s blog , today I found this very cool resource for teachers and students looking for different visual ways to represent information: A […]
Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]
Listen to this post! Over the past couple of days, David Warlick has posted several times about the decreasing need for students to memorize discrete, unconnected factual bits of academic […]
Listen to this post! This semester I taught the College’s School and Society class to our preservice teachers. This foundations course acquaints students with the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political […]
Listen to this post! Will Richardson blogged yesterday about a comment by Daniel Kinnaman, publisher of District Administration magazine, regarding K-12 education: Alarmingly, there may be no sector of society […]
Listen to this post! David Warlick blogged a bit about this idea last June, but I thought it was interesting that one of the most popular articles in 2006 from […]
Listen to this post! Hear ye! Hear ye! All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward […]
Listen to this post! It’s a new year: a good time to reflect on my past 4+ months of blogging. It’s been quite an adventure. My learning has been exponential […]
Listen to this post! Know thyself and Nothing in excess (inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Since I’ve now been ‘tagged’ with the 5 Things […]
Listen to this post! The December 2006 issue of NASSP Bulletin has an article by Drs. Chien Yu and Vance A. Durrington, assistant professors at Mississippi State University, on practicing […]
A few final notes about the TIES conference … The highlight of the conference for me was the hour I got to spend hanging out with Dr. Jim Hirsch , […]
Today is the third day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s post on student laptops and wireless classrooms discussed how many public schools lend laptops to students and […]
Today is the fourth day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post relates to the various technologies and procedures that public schools use to protect students from inappropriate […]
Today is the last day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post addresses teacher professional development regarding classroom Internet usage. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, […]
So I had this great idea. I’d contact TIME magazine, ask them for a clean PDF version of (and permission to freely reprint) their great article from last week, and […]
I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most […]
Miguel posted aboutJohn’s graph on rate of change. Here’s how I’ve presented on this topic… Cue up the dueling banjos!
Okay, at the risk of being labeled a Scrooge, I’m going to say it, because one of the things we bloggers do is challenge each other (hopefully politely) to spark […]
What if every federal and state politician, principal. and school board member was required to visit a school like the School of the Future in Philadelphia, or an after-school program […]
A few random thoughts that have traveled through my brain today… Next week I am giving two presentations at the Minnesota educational technology (TIES) conference. One is on administrator blogging. […]
Yesterday I attended a session at TIES (the Minnesota state educational technology conference) by Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN. Keith presented some findings from a report on Hot Technologies innK-12 […]
Yesterday at the TIES conference I had the honor of giving the lunchtime presentation (i.e., I was the only presentation during that time slot). I gave a presentation titled Can […]
On Tuesday at the TIES conference I gave a presentation titled The Blogging Administrator. I discussed the benefits to principals of blogging generally, highlighted our Principal Blogging Project specifically, and […]