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Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The revolution in information technology is historic in its force and scope: reshaping the fundamentals of how human beings from every corner […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n Even today, with educational technology in its earliest stages: n n Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The American education system faces much more than a performance problem. It also faces a political problem that, in the grander scheme […]
Three years, 20+ million online views, and many, many face-to-face showings later, the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video still is going strong. Just this week it was mentioned in […]
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging […]
Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard University, who authored The Global Achievement Gap, is speaking to over 600 Iowa administrators and teachers today in Des Moines. Nearly 30 students are liveblogging their reactions […]
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Many schools filter YouTube, Twitter, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking, and other content-rich online services for both students and employees. Why on earth would you filter the adults who work […]
A while back I shared one of my two favorite passages from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the other one: n n [W]e need to […]
Much ado about nothing I just read the text of President Obama’s hotly-contested speech tomorrow. I encourage you to do the same. Could it be any more innocuous? Whatever happened to waiting […]
Just 1 day left for THE PUSH! Today we focus on SUPERINTENDENTS / SCHOOL DISTRICTS. We’re looking for excellent superintendent, central office, or district-wide blogs (e.g., where multiple individuals contribute). What […]
The American School of Bombay (ASB) in Mumbai, India is hosting a 1:1 laptop computing conference in February 2010. While the conference is aimed at other international schools, it should be […]
Today is the LAST day of THE PUSH! Today we focus on EDUCATION POLICY. We’re looking for excellent education policy blogs (liberal, conservative, or neither) that P-12 educators should be reading. […]
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video created by Shawn Gormley and Kevin Honeycutt that highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers: Thanks, […]
The New South Wales province in Australia is on a quest to outfit every Year 9 to 12 student with a customized Lenovo netbook by 2012. It is expected that […]
For those of you who are interested, here are the final regular season standings for BlogBall09, our edublogger fantasy baseball leagues. As league commissioners, apparently both Jon Becker and I got to […]
Just a few days left for THE PUSH! Today we focus on ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. What are some excellent elementary teacher blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
I have two favorite quotes from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the first one: If it takes 40 minutes for an environmental science class […]
Just 4 days left of THE PUSH! Today we focus on SECONDARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent secondary classroom blogs that 7-12 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
I don’t know how Chris Lehmann finagled an invite to speak to the FCC, but I sure am glad he did (and that he filmed it!). Click on the picture […]
Just 3 days left for THE PUSH! I don’t know how many of these we’ll get, but today we focus on SECONDARY TEACHERS. Are there any excellent secondary teacher blogs where 7-12 educators are […]
Just 2 days left for THE PUSH! I had a moment of panic yesterday because the Moving Forward wiki disappeared completely from the Web. Fortunately Wikispaces resolved the problem quickly and […]
Here’s a great quote from Jim Collins’ new book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more […]
Today THE PUSH focuses on ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent elementary classroom blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where elementary students share their work. […]
A reading teacher contacted me: As the school’s remedial reading teacher I was asked to research a reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader. Do you have any suggestions? […]
dear parent teacher administrator board member don’t teach your kids to read for the Web to scan RSS aggregate synthesize don’t teach your kids to write online pen and paper […]
I took a couple of days off from THE PUSH – guess I was tired! We only identified 1 excellent P-12 athletics / extracurricular activities blog. As we head into the home stretch […]
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) has started a new podcast channel and will be interviewing top educational leadership scholars from around the world about school administrator research and/or […]
From the author of Socialnomics, here’s what is perhaps the latest modification of the Did You Know? video. FYI, Did You Know? Version 4 is on target for an October […]