Guest Thinkers

This post is overdue, but last week I had a great time (again) with the “Women of Web 2.0” talking about K-12 technology leadership issues. If you haven’t yet listened […]

This is a screenshot of the page for AERA proposal reviewers. Can you find the link to download the proposal I’m supposed to review? (click on the image for a […]

I received this question recently: What resources (contacts, advisors, print, online, etc.) do you recommend to our school leaders – and lawyers – so they can make informed decisions about […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great feature on Dr. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. Too bad it’s locked down so that most […]

A few years ago I had the opportunity to do a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives. The sense of history was very palpable as we passed around the journals […]

I received this recently: Dr. McLeod, I am a math teacher in [school district] and have attended two of your presentations (one last school year). I am wondering if there […]

I just read this tale of woe about the start of the school year. As Edward Deming noted, it’s the system, not the worker. Administrators are responsible for the system. […]

Pierce, M., & Stapleton, D. L. (Eds.). (2003). The 21st century principal: Currentnissues in leadership and policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard EducationnPress.n n The essays in this volume examine the future […]

I was informed today that Dangerously Irrelevant AND LeaderTalk both made Edutopia’s short list of “edublogs they love.” Here’s the link: Edublogs we love: Ten top stops for Internet interaction […]

Untitled Document Surprised? Two primarily online universities and one community college among the top five. FYI, the University of Phoenix has more than twice the number of students (117,309) as […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] We have known for a long time (decades!) about what constitutes effective staff development. As the latest version of the National Staff Development Council […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] What social networks do I belong to? Let me see… MySpace. Ning Classroom 2.0. Facebook. Ning EdubloggerWorld. LinkedIn. Ning Stop Cyberbullying. The blogosphere. The Did […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Even when principals and teachers have access to data, they often aren’t sure what to do with it. That’s why CASTLE (okay, it was me!) created School […]

I was the keynote speaker for the Owatonna Public Schools‘ kickoff day for all staff for the new school year. I’ve worked with the district before. Not only am I […]

Many gaming-savvy teenagers and adults create modifications, or mods, of the video games that they play. By doing this, they transcend from mere players into virtual world creators. Conceptualizing, designing, […]

I don’t know how Will Richardson came across these pictures of the Detroit Public School Book Depository, but I can’t get them out of my head so I’m sharing them […]

Karl Fisch just sent me a link to this video. If you watch the first 10 minutes or so, you’ll see Hal Lindsey of the Trinity Broadcasting Network use Did […]

A video of prison inmates in the Philippines remaking Michael Jackson’s Thriller is a big hit on YouTube. As is typical, the rebuttal is getting much less attention. The truth […]

In honor of the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa, here is the checklist I posted last year at this time. Hmmm… I wonder if schools have made […]

I’m a judge for Dan Meyer’s 4 Slides contest (entries are due Friday!). But here’s what I’d submit if I wasn’t… [click on each slide to see a larger version] […]

I’ve been tagged by several people to participate in the 8 RandomnThings meme. I usually don’t post about personal stuff on this blog, butngiven that my lastnpost opened me up […]

Chris Craft has posted an interesting scenario about the potential legal liability of using Slideshare , or any non-district-sponsored web service, that has advertisements that may be inappropriate for school-age […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] n Two weeks ago I reported on my second effort to catalog the edublogosphere, to put some shape and form to the amorphous network, to […]

Has it been a whole year already? Today Dangerously Irrelevant is one year old!

Yesterday evening a major bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River in the middle of rush hour. I’d like to thank everyone who checked in to see if my family […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] A lot of folks have been asking important questions about school leader preparation lately. The most recent issue of AASA’s The School Administrator magazine profiles four key […]

We are soliciting submissions for a new award honoring the best research article of the year related to P-12 technology leadership issues. The article may be published or unpublished, empirical […]

Many of give presentations or deliver training workshops for K-12 or postsecondary educators. As part of those professional development efforts, we have a variety of resources and favorites that we […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] n Back in January, when I had been blogging for five months but was still a blogosphere fledgling, I am embarrassed to say that I […]

The Personal Democracy Forum has outlined a six-point technical agenda that it believes presidential candidates should support: Declare the Internet a public good. Commit to providing affordable high-speed wireless Internet […]