The Iowa Technology Education Connection (ITEC) conference each year is fairly small. Despite its size, however, it tends to bring in some really big-name speakers for its keynote addresses. Last […]
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As I said last May… In the blogosphere we pay a lot of attention to the folks who blog. We rarely, if ever, recognize those folks who comment. But of […]
Hey, principals! Superintendents! Teachers!* On a related note, here’s what I’ve been saying a lot lately… * Seth Godin, Free Prize Inside (p. 47)
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Last June, during Change Week at Dangerously Irrelevant, I blogged about Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory. In that post I mentioned that one of […]
Stephanie Sandifer recently blogged about the concept of ‘teachers as learners’: Rather than immediately engage in a technology purchasing frenzy, take some time to begin discussions on your campus about […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] In May I have the glorious opportunity to interview Mike Schmoker, guru of data-driven education and author of Results, The Results Fieldbook, Results Now, and The Crayola […]
Thanks to @rickscheibner, @abubnic, @rrmurry, @kolson29, @plugusin, @glassbeed, @pmcanulty, @tracyweeks, @NancyW, @RickTanski, @juliafallon, @swvalley, and @rwentechaney, I now have a number of new elementary classroom blogs to show my children’s […]
This comment was left on my blog recently: n n I have a personal opinion that many teachers become administrators not to help more students, but because it is easier […]
If you’ve been reading Speed of Creativity lately, you probably noticed Wesley Fryer’s nifty phrase: I’m here for the learning revolution. n n Here for the learning revolution n I […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… n Some really cool posts about Twitter n n Twitter set theory & the wisdom of the group (a must-read) n 17 ways […]
Bud Hunt posted in Twitter about The Gaming Krib. Here’s the basic premise of the service this company’s trying to sell: n n It has the ability to shut off […]
We have some technology funds to spend in my department. The computer lab that we provide for our on-campus graduate students is brand new and, other than some needed software, […]
One of the local school districts here in Iowa had an all-elementary-school chorus concert on Friday. At the beginning, the audience was told Please turn your cell phones off. Please […]
Johnny Bunko: a cartoon Joe who hates his dead-end accounting job. A set of magic chopsticks. And Diana, a Greek-anime goddess of job satisfaction. Mix ’em together and you have […]
Here’s a nifty video by Charles Leadbeater, author of We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity. The book looks interesting. I don’t know how much it overlaps Clay Shirky’s phenomenally […]
My posting rate here at Dangerously Irrelevant waned considerably over the past two months. I could make the excuse that I’ve been super busy but, of course, we all are […]
Some words of advice for new education bloggers.
An idea so brilliant that I’m ashamed I didn’t think of it earlier: edublogger fantasy baseball! 12 edubloggers. An online fantasy baseball league. Winner gets online bragging rights and an actual, physical trophy […]
For those of you who are interested, here are the twelve teams that are participating in edublogger fantasy baseball this year (in alphabetical order by manager): A Few Good Men, Jon […]
Does Cisco really believe that I’m going to feel positively about this ad that covers up more than half of what I really want to read? Ugh. How annoying. Someone […]
Education Canada has published a great article from Michael Wesch, author of several videos that should be seen by every school administrator. Here’s an excerpt from Anti-teaching: Confronting the crisis […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Chart 1: A discrepancy of beliefs n Here is a chart of some findings from the recently-released Speak Up 2007 surveys of nearly 368,000 […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn As David pointed out, two posts from a couple of weeks ago fostered a great deal of conversation in the blogosphere. Both were impactful, […]
From Roger Schank at The Pulse: n n [T]there is no evidence whatsoever, that accumulation of facts and background knowledge are the same thing. In fact, there is plenty of […]
In the past, I’ve labeled my random thoughts and captures from the Web on this blog as Half-finished or half-baked?. As of today, I’m re-labeling those as Not so irrelevant […]
As Avinash Kaushik points out, there are many different metrics to measure your blog’s success. Some common metrics include subscribers, page ‘hits,’ and Technorati rank or authority. Another useful metric […]
I’ve been traveling too much: Minnesota, Texas, India, Florida. All fun, but I’m behind on my blogging. Let’s see if I can get back on track… Goofing around with Easter […]
Comfort foods. We all have them. Foods that make us feel all warm and cozy inside, not just because they taste yummy but also because they evoke memories of happy […]
I just discovered, courtesy of Kim Cofino on Twitter, these videos by Nathan Lowell. They definitely deserve greater attention… A view of 21st century learners Welcome to your world Free […]
Wesley Fryer has an interesting post on ‘creativity fatigue‘: the notion that over time we get tired or more unwilling to continuously be creative / innovative (i.e., do new things). […]