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I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on teaching and learning. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few […]

Teachers aren’t integrating digital technologies into their instruction on a regular basis. “Some are.” The administrators who are in charge of leading their school organizations into the information age don’t […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on data-driven decision-making. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on educational gaming. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on demographic shifts. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]

Earlier this week I disagreed with Jeff Utecht. Today I’m going to heartily agree with him. Over at the SchoolFinder blog, Jeff said: It was interesting yesterday at a parent […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on marketing. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, here’s […]

Jeff Utecht says that innAmerica (as opposed to China): n n [W]e focus on getting students to think different, we encourage them tonthink, to analyze, to question their findings. We […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on school leadership. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few seconds, […]

The first season of edublogger fantasy baseball is nearing its conclusion. Dr. Jon Becker of Educational Insanity ran away with the league, despite many of us his questioning his sanity […]

I ran across a great video by Richard Armand, the Mesquite (TX) Independent School District Administrative Officer for Technology. I have added it to the Moving Forward wiki. You can […]

I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on how the world has changed. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in […]

I realized that in two years I had never added a link to subscribe to Dangerously Irrelevant via e-mail. LeaderTalk has had such a link since its inception. So I […]

So far 85 people have completed the online survey version of the Beginning of the Year Technology Checklist. Initial results are very interesting… If you haven’t yet completed the survey […]

Last week I had a brand new middle school teacher ask me what the best online resources were for learning about (and teaching about) information literacy and/or media literacy. Since […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] State and federal accountability schemes require that students master low-level academic content. Our decisions regarding how we structure our instruction to facilitate student mastery of […]

I’m not quite sure what to make of this Shocking Economics 2008 video but it’s definitely thought-provoking. Sources are available at the American Freedom University web site. Happy viewing!

Most schools currently expect students to somehow (maybe magically?) be responsible, successful digital citizens upon graduation from high school – able to navigate all of the intricacies of a digital, […]

We have a bunch of crazy dice at our house, including fractions dice, decimal dice, money dice, alien dice, dice with colored dots on them, and dice within dice. We […]

It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. The past two years at this time, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since […]

Although we need some more lists of subject-specific blogs (which I’ll work on in future posts), the blogs page of the Moving Forward wiki is basically a pretty solid resource […]

Linda Fandel’s blog at The Des Moines Register is focused on “world class schools for Iowa.” Kudos to her and the Register for devoting time and attention to this issue. […]

Inspired by Cory Plough’s post about his meetup and presentation with Kelly Dumont, I’m going to try and do a better job of letting people know when I might be […]

I am pleased to say that 694 posts (and 3,019 comments) later, Dangerously Irrelevant is 2 years old today. I can hardly believe it’s been 730 days since my first […]

[cross-posted atnLeaderTalk] n In my post for LeaderTalk thisnmonth, I’m going to quickly address three ideas related to video games,nschools, and learning and offer a short wrap-up at the end… […]

nWell, it was a close competition but we have a winner in the 140–character book review contest: n n Workers are promoted to their level of incompetence. Explains School Administration […]

Okay, I’ve got one more contest in me this summer… As usual, the winner gets everlasting fame and a CASTLE mug. I’ll also throw in three great books: It’s Being […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] I’m in the midst of reading Clark Aldrich’s Simulations and the Future of Learning . As Aldrich walks me through the process of developing […]

Sometimes a story is just so egregiously stupid that you not only have to post about it but encourage others to spread the word too. This might be one of […]

The Teacher Salary Project is intended to call attention to the important and difficult work that teachers do. I agree that teachers “deserve more.” Is it wrong of me to […]