Guest Thinkers

Remember when I was looking for some interesting opportunities for my fall sabbatical? Well, those didn’t pan out so much (thanks for the offer to teach middle school again, Russ!) […]

In a recent comment, Bill Bradley said: photo © 2007 Jamie Williams | more info (via: Wylio)I used to think that the cost [of student laptops] was ridiculous, until I […]

photo © 2008 Eddie~S | more info (via: Wylio) This morning the New York Times published a phenomenal article on the struggles of parents to keep up with their kids’ […]

It’s time to vote for the 2010 Edublog Awards, the ‘Oscars of the education blogosphere.’ All votes are due by noon Eastern, December 14. Winners will be announced soon thereafter. […]

Joe Bower said: n n Because school defines learning as passive, learners come to see education as something done to them. When students are stuck in the middle of a […]

I said this to some foundation folks recently: Any corporation, government agency, worldwide church, school, university, foundation, or other institution that enjoyed the ability to broadcast to the passive masses is going […]

I recently received this e-mail from a principal: Our district has always hired teachers to be in charge of the technology in their respective buildings. Because we are growing rapidly, […]

If we were really serious about educational technology, we would… [here are 10 to get you started] show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups in Facebook […]

Russ Goerend said in a recent comment at this blog: n n I’m asking for a simple change in mindset and approach: n Ed tech advocate: We should use Skype!nLearning […]

Good news! According to a recent Tech&Learning survey of its readers regarding use of digital technologies in their schools, over 90% of the survey respondents reported that they were either […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on American innovation (“that’s an example of fighting the last war”) Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld on doing more with less (“yes, yes, and yes”)

Here’s a clip from a video on the retouching of photos in magazines:  The above clip reminds me of this Dove commercial:  Given the incredible amount of media that our […]

Here’s a short video on Internet safety (hat tip to Kevin Honeycutt). Happy viewing! 

Dangerously Irrelevant has been loading slowly lately because it’s so video-heavy. I’ve temporarily removed some other elements in order to speed up loading of the home page. I also vowed to […]

Dissertations are difficult things. There are multiple reasons why most folks don’t have one. Here are some words of wisdom that I’ve heard from others and now pass along to […]

If you’re like me, you have trouble keeping up with all of the great videos that are out there. I love it when others help me separate the wheat from […]

These posts got the most web traffic on my two blogs in October 2010: Dangerously Irrelevant Videos – I hate my teacher 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking We can’t […]

Five online resources worth checking out… Pam Moran’s awesome post on our tendency to admire problems rather than working on solutions. Ryan Bretag asks “How would we react to students if […]

I don’t often blog about specific technology tools, but Adobe’s new Project ROME looks intriguing. Check out the two videos below. It seems like there might be some powerful possibilities […]

Joe Bower asked if showing teachers how to make self-graded quizzes for students using Google Docs had any value. Specifically, he said: When technology is used to accelerate the worst […]

G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that — […]

[cross-posted at The Huffington Post] I’ve watched this TED talk by Sugata Mitra several times now. And every time I watch it, my brain keeps asking the same question: In […]

The documentary film Waiting for Superman debuted on September 24, 2010. To date it has only grossed $2.7 million at the box office. Just in case you were wondering, however, […]

American students generally have the legal right to express their opinions at home on their free time using non-school computer equipment. So here are a few students expressing their opinions […]

Diana Senechal left the following comment over on a Wall Street Journal article about computers’ burgeoning ability to individualize student learning: While “individualized instruction” seems an unequivocal good, perhaps it […]

Many organizational web sites are simply online brochures: static entities with a few pages of information. They’re not interactive. They’re not updated. Once you’ve read the text and seen the […]

Are you an infrequent edublogger? Would you like to blog more but often have writer’s block? If so, check out Melanie Holtsman’s Fall Blog Challenge. She has a list of weekly […]

Corey Dahl (@coreydahlevent) fired his Flip video camera and filmed the event: Happy viewing!

Last December I posted the below video, which is about cyberbullying. Some young people who say they are ‘cutters’ and/or are having suicidal thoughts are leaving comments on the blog post. […]

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Connected Principals blog is now a member of the CASTLE blog family. Connected Principals currently has 22 school administrators blogging about technology […]