Guest Thinkers

Listen to this post! It’s a new year: a good time to reflect on my past 4+ months of blogging. It’s been quite an adventure. My learning has been exponential […]

Listen to this post! Know thyself and Nothing in excess (inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Since I’ve now been ‘tagged’ with the 5 Things […]

Listen to this post! The December 2006 issue of NASSP Bulletin has an article by Drs. Chien Yu and Vance A. Durrington, assistant professors at Mississippi State University, on practicing […]

A few final notes about the TIES conference … The highlight of the conference for me was the hour I got to spend hanging out with Dr. Jim Hirsch , […]

Today is the third day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s post on student laptops and wireless classrooms discussed how many public schools lend laptops to students and […]

Today is the fourth day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post relates to the various technologies and procedures that public schools use to protect students from inappropriate […]

Today is the last day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post addresses teacher professional development regarding classroom Internet usage. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, […]

So I had this great idea. I’d contact TIME magazine, ask them for a clean PDF version of (and permission to freely reprint) their great article from last week, and […]

I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most […]

Miguel posted aboutJohn’s graph on rate of change. Here’s how I’ve presented on this topic… Cue up the dueling banjos!

Okay, at the risk of being labeled a Scrooge, I’m going to say it, because one of the things we bloggers do is challenge each other (hopefully politely) to spark […]

What if every federal and state politician, principal. and school board member was required to visit a school like the School of the Future in Philadelphia, or an after-school program […]

A few random thoughts that have traveled through my brain today… Next week I am giving two presentations at the Minnesota educational technology (TIES) conference. One is on administrator blogging. […]

Yesterday I attended a session at TIES (the Minnesota state educational technology conference) by Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN. Keith presented some findings from a report on Hot Technologies innK-12 […]

Yesterday at the TIES conference I had the honor of giving the lunchtime presentation (i.e., I was the only presentation during that time slot). I gave a presentation titled Can […]

On Tuesday at the TIES conference I gave a presentation titled The Blogging Administrator. I discussed the benefits to principals of blogging generally, highlighted our Principal Blogging Project specifically, and […]

Today kicks off Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s topic is Internet access in public schools and public school classrooms. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, Internet […]

Here’s a fun video from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. A reporter interviewed local teens on the topic of Internet safety. Nothing too earth-shattering here, but fun nonetheless. Mindworks: Internet safety […]

Today is the second day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s topic, Internet access in public schools and public school classrooms, may not have been very exciting for […]

After my TIES session last Tuesday on blogging administrators , I sat in on a presentation by Aimee Bissonette. Aimee is an attorney for Little Buffalo Law & Consulting and […]

As a professor at a large research institution, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of academic publishing. While this topic may not seem to be of interest to […]

Although this quote from Worldchanging doesn’t pertain directly to education or educational technology, I thought it was pretty relevant to what we’re trying to make happen in the next few […]

Miguel took exception to my ISTE point/counterpoint article on using RFID chips to monitor schoolchildren in school. I knew my stance would be controversial when I wrote the piece, so […]

After meeting with a doctoral student yesterday who drove two hours each way for a one-hour meeting, I decided enough was enough, at least with my own advisees. I made […]

In the past few weeks I have received thank you notes from three current or former students. Here’s one example: nn During this week of giving thanks, I am certainly […]

Yesterday I posted about some folks for whom I’m thankful. I have a few others to add that are a little more local. In addition to those I mentioned yesterday, […]

Today’s a good day to brag about some of our CASTLE friends… A couple of weeks ago one of our School Technology Leadership alumni, Jennette Kane, was honored as one […]

The federal government spent $45.7nbillion on elementary and secondary education in 2005–2006. This representednabout 8.2% of the overall government spending on P-12 education in our country,nwith the rest of the […]

What if every teacher received 40 hours a year of content-specific training in Web 2.0 technologies (wikis, blogs, podcasts, social networking, photo sharing, social bookmarks, mashups, etc.) and also had […]

What if every student, not just those in Michigan, had to take at least one high-quality online course before they graduated from high school? What if every teacher and administrator […]