Guest Thinkers

[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]

[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]

[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today I am […]

[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]

[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today the Crimson […]

This is a must-watch video by Hans Mundahl, Director of Experiental Learning and Technology Coordinator at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire. Not only does Hans have a cool […]

Here’s an activity you can do with school administrators and teachers (and maybe school board members?). Total time: about 45 minutes.n

For those of you who haven’t noticed (yes, I’m talking to you, RSS subscribers), Dangerously Irrelevant now has a new look! I finally made the switch from TypePad to WordPress. […]

CASTLE’s1to1 Schools group blog gets more popular every day. Over the last three days it has passed the 500 subscribers mark. If you’re interested in issues related to 1:1 laptop programs and […]

I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here […]

It’s tough to know when to scale back. We have causes and people that we’re committed to, responsibilities that we want to fulfill, teams that we want to support, and […]

Here are three quotes from Stefana Broadbent’s excellent TED Talk: there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions — institutions that are the institutions that […]

As a school law instructor and tenured associate professor of educational leadership, I perhaps have a different view of tenure than most P-12 teachers. As we look to what the […]

Judy Jeffrey announced yesterday that she is retiring as the Director of the Iowa Department of Education. She has been a tremendous supporter of revamping the ways that Iowa schools […]

What is the biggest barrier to moving schools forward into a technology-suffused, globally-interconnected era? Our mental models of what schooling should look like. Unfortunately, most educators, parents, and policymakers have no idea what […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] n As school leaders, we have the responsibility to n n Facilitate learning environments that are respectful, empowering, and engaging for students n Create workplaces that are […]

Is this school in New York City the future of schooling? The School of One: Program Overview (see also the write-ups at Teaching Matters and The Huffington Post)

Yesterday I got the e-mail below. I watched the video trailer and made my contribution this morning. Crazy high school robots battling it out for engineering supremacy? How can you […]

My teaching philosophy is pretty straightforward. I believe that the teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher. all students can, will, and want to […]

You can’t get to outer space with a rowboat. You need something with a little more oomph.nNeither can you get to genuine 21st century learning environments without putting a computer in every kid’s hands. Not just some of the time. All of the time.n

Not sure how I missed this video last October but, in case you haven’t seen it, here’s You can’t be my teacher. Happy viewing!

“If institutional education refuses to adapt to the landscape of the information age, it WILL die and SHOULD die.” The video is An Open Letter to Educators. Happy viewing!

If we can predict fairly accurately whether a student is likely to drop out in 9th or 10th grade 5 or 6 years earlier, isn’t that a pretty big indictment […]

Here’s another envisioning of the forms that traditional print publications are going to take as tablet eReaders and computers become more prevalent. This one is from Penguin Books and shows what […]

Are schools dangerously irrelevant? Watch the video to hear some of my thoughts…

Conference organizers usually strive to have participants leave upbeat and energized at the end of the conference. I violated that rule on the last day of the ASB Unplugged conference in […]

Scott Elias and Dave Meister are sponsoring LeaderCamp 2010, an online unconference for school administrators, on June 24, 2010. As they say, “it’s gonna be awesome.” Follow LeaderCamp on Twitter […]

Civic Enterprises has released its latest study, Raising Their Voices, concerning America’s dropout crisis. What resonated with me the most was the voices of the students in the report. Here […]

For those of you who are interested, here is the Flickr photo set for ASB Unplugged, a February 1:1 laptop conference for international schools that was sponsored by the American School […]

Yesterday was the TEDxNYED event in New York City. Many of us watched the LiveStream online. Last week was the TEDxASB event in Mumbai, India. I had the pleasure of […]