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Andy Carvin notes on the Learning Now blog that a New Jersey school district has banned students from recording their teachers in class after a student recorded a teacher’s classroom […]
Wesley Fryer and Miguel Guhlin have both ‘tagged’ me to discuss how I blog, think about blogging, create my blog posts, etc. I’m usually happy to play along, so here […]
David Warlick has blogged often about our need to tell a new story. A story about the technological shifts that are occurring in our society. A story about the impacts […]
Okay, let me begin by stating that I know several things about this blog post: It’s probably going to make some people angry, It’s probably going to discourage some people, […]
In their acclaimed book, Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras note that visionary companies set Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (BHAGs), bold mission statements that act as powerful mechanisms […]
We’ve started a new initiative we are calling CASTLE Conversations: interviews with interesting people about technology and/or leadership issues. In some ways it will be very similar to the awesome […]
Here’s something if you have a 60- to 90-minute block of time with educators… 100% Proficiency on Old Skills? A Candid Conversation About the Demands of NCLB and Preparing Students […]
Listen to this post! There are some great conversations going on right now about Marc Prensky’s article, Engage Me or Enrage Me. One is at Dennis Fermoyle’s blog; the other […]
Listen to this post! Dear Kelly, as usual, your recent post is deeply thoughtful. So is your comment to my previous post. That said, I don’t feel like you’ve quite […]
Listen to this post! I had the pleasure of spending last Friday morning with the Minneapolis Public Schools Technology Planning Steering Committee. Coleen Kosloski, Director of Information Technology Services, gave […]
I think a lot of folks have been doing some great blogging, so I’m not quite sure what I did to deserve this, but thank you, Christian and Chris. Also, […]
Listen to this post! What happened to Ed-Tech Insider? Tom seems to be blogging faithfully but no one else seems to have posted in months? I hope it’s not dying […]
Did You Know? (version 1 and/or version 2) has now been seen by over 10 million people online. This is the post that went viral in February 2007. In November […]
Listen to this post! To date we’ve had 132 education bloggers submit responses for our education blogosphere survey. If you haven’t yet participated and would like to avoid being labeled […]
Listen to this post! Every week day I receive the ASCD SmartBrief in my e-mail inbox. Usually it’s an excellent overview of some key stories that are happening in K-12 […]
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 […]
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 […]