Guest Thinkers

The Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series has been featured twice on The Huffington Post in the past few days. One of the stories currently is the lead for […]

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

A recent article from The Economist, The Cult of the Faceless Boss, caught my attention. Here’s an excerpt: n n In general, the corporate world needs its flamboyant visionaries and raging […]

Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are […]

I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn’t bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn’t sufficiently account for the needs and […]

Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular […]

I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. I’ve taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate […]

There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post […]

WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected?, on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja, Professor and Director of Iowa […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association […]

A conversation I had with a superintendent at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference… Superintendent: I’m new to my district. I spent the first year getting the lay of the […]

Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion. Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic […]

[cross-posted at CASTLE’s 1-to-1 Schools blog] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference, I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop […]

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I spent yesterday with technology integrationists from the various Educational Service Units in Nebraska. In my experience, technology integrationists usually are wonderful people who know a lot about digital societal […]

Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair […]

Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha’s Homework Day. The company is inviting students to submit their homework problems to see if/how Wolfram Alpha can solve them. Should be interesting… Will you or your […]

Some of you have noticed that I’ve got a new blog! I’m using Posterous to capture those online items that interest me but for which I don’t have time (or […]

Group notes from David Warlick’s keynote at ITEC 2009. <a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b94b3ef7cd” >ITEC David Warlick Keynote</a> Keywords: redefine literacy Warlick

David Warlick is a wonderful speaker and an even more wonderful person. I was very fortunate to spend some time with him last night and this morning. I have very […]

Russ Goerendposted a couple of short video snippets from our small Tweetup at ITEC 2009 (for some reason a host of Flip cameras suddenly emerged…). In addition to a number […]

ISTE is asking us to help select one of its next conference keynotes. I am asking you to please vote for my suggestion: n n As of this moment, the top three […]

As budget cuts loom again in many states, employee termination, seniority, and ‘bumping rights’ are in the news. The essential issue is whether organizational leaders should be able to retain the employees […]

Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n [I]n American education, policy making is not guided by what is best for children or the larger public. It is a political […]

Group notes from Daniel Pink’s keynote speech at ITEC 2009. ITEC Daniel Pink Keynote

Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the […]

The Ron Clark Academy looks like a wonderful school. But is it realistic to expect a significant number of our teachers to teach like this?

Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and […]

Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n A. “The average technology score [from Education Week’s Technology Counts 2008] drops as union membership grows. . . . technology seems to be […]