I think I may have just found the opening video for my Monday presentation to the Ames Noon Rotary. Kudos to the Pearson Foundation Digital Arts Alliance and the Consortium […]
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Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on the CASTLE Advisory Board. We had many, many more applicants than we possibly could take. Although having too many people […]
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Dr. Jim Gee notes: If learning always operates well within the learner’s resources, then all that happens is that the learner’s behaviors get more and more routinized, as the learner […]
Many of you know that I’m asking the edublogosphere to gradually help me flesh out the Moving Forward wiki so that it can be a valuable resource to presenters and […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] My city’s public library is a wonderful place. It hosts a variety of well-attended events, has a phenomenal children’s section, and serves as a real […]
Kudos to Dan Meyer for being named as a 2008 Leader in Learning by the cable industry! A complete list of the winners is at the Leaders in Learning web […]
As promised, here is my interview of Mike Vitelli, CEO of The Gaming Krib: Conversation 29: Interview with Mike Vitelli Happy listening!
My latest article for the American Association of School Administrators is now online. Titled Blocking the Future, it’s only a page long but I’m really excited about it. Here’s an […]
Erin Reilly, Research Director for the New Media Literacies project at MIT, is looking for some New England high schools to pilot test its new Teachers’ Strategy Guide, Reading in […]
I really wanted to like the Creating Valuable Class Web Sites article in the May 2008 issue of Learning and Leading With Technology. I really did. I believe strongly that […]
Dennis Richards, a superintendent in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is trying to get the annual ASCD conference to recognize the power and the potential of the Social Web. Help him out by […]
Why does it bother me so much to see principals on this list? St. Paul (MN) Public Schools Labor Agreements
[Since CoComment won’t play nice, here’s my response to Clay Burell’s post] When I started blogging in August 2006, I was feeling very down about the idea of writing. The […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Here are some research findings for you… Smart people leave teaching? Of the teachers who had high college entrance exam scores, almost a fourth of them leave […]
We have a choice to make for ourselves and the organizations that we lead: cynicism or hope. Moving forward or remaining still. Not starry-eyed, quixotic optimism but a realistic, determined belief […]
Credits:F Minus by Tony Carrillo, Dist. by UFS, Inc. [permission for use granted 4–24–2008]
After 3 years, it’s time to set up an advisory board for CASTLE. Although I have a few people in mind that I’d like to invite, I also thought it […]
Just a couple of reminders… Submissions for the NECC button design contest that Wesley Fryer and I are sponsoring are due May 1. Submissions to be considered for CASTLE’s advisory […]
Lately there’s been a bunch of conversation on this blog about The Gaming Krib, a service designed to help parents and children ‘balance … playing time and learning time.’ Most […]
Cable in the Classroom is sponsoring its annual Media Smart Research Award : Media literacy is a key 21st Century skill because it provides a framework and method to think […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… n I read blocked blogs n n I’m gettin’ me some of these super-cool buttons (made by Stephanie Sandifer; inspired by Bud Hunt). […]
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 […]
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 […]