Guest Thinkers

Thirteen science education blogs and twenty-four math education blogs later, THE PUSH is off to a good start! Today we work on ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATION. What are some excellent English / […]

The best-selling netbooks typically fall within the $300 to $400 range and their capabilities are increasing rapidly as manufacturers figure out how to include more features. For example, we are […]

The Des Moines Register reported today that the St. Ansgar (IA) Schools have given up on their proposal to purchase a device that would jam mobile phone signals after confirming […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] As leaders, we often know what is the right thing to do. Just to pick a few examples… We know that ongoing, formative progress monitoring is more appropriate […]

Every year the School Administrators of Iowa asks its members what priority it should give to various legislative and/or lobbying issues. Here are my responses to some of the items […]

Both of my NECC 2009 presentations are now available! As I noted earlier, my first presentation, Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation, is available at ISTEVision. My second […]

Since my preview of Conspiracy Code: U.S. History at NECC, I’ve been thinking again about educational games… n Here are a bunch of screen shots of different online games for learning. I […]

Here are my notes from Day 1 of the World Technology Summit & Awards in New York City. My colleague at Iowa State, Dr. John Nash, and I have been […]

Here are my notes from Day 2 of the World Technology Summit. I’ve been hangin’ with Dr. John Nash, my colleague at ISU. Today we learned about India’s Barefoot College […]

Well, it’s not every day that one gets within six feet of two presidents. Last Thursday, just as my colleague at ISU, Dr. John Nash, and I were walking out of […]

For those of you who are curious, here are the standings in our two edublogger fantasy baseball leagues at the All-Star break:

I was one of the faculty members interviewed by the Associated Press for an article on technology integration in higher education. I think the article came out pretty well. It’s […]

I haven’t had a contest all summer. I have some books to give away, so here’s an easy one… Questions What’s your funniest K-12 ed tech story, vignette, or anecdote? [please anonymize […]

Just a reminder that tomorrow is Leadership Day 2009 here at Dangerously Irrelevant! n You can see the posts from previous years at n n Leadership Day 2007 – Summary n […]

For Leadership Day 2009, here are some key questions that I’d ask about the technology leadership function in any school district: n n Who is primary responsible for technology leadership in […]

For those of you who have asked, my Monday, June 29, afternoon presentation at NECC, Effective leadership in an era of disruptive innovation, is now available at ISTEVision:  FYI, you also […]

Many of you have been participating in and/or following the conversations for this year’s CASTLE Summer Book Club.  I am pleased to announce that my interview today with Dr. Dan […]

I tweeted: And Barry Dahl replied: Barry’s right and I’m wrong. I failed my own information literacy test. Why? Because even though I had access to (and linked to) the […]

I had a Twitter discussion the other night with Jim Twetten, who’s the Assistant Director for Academic Technologies here at Iowa State University and also has quickly become one of my […]

A few days before NECC I was invited by a publicist to interview Julie Young, the Executive Director of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and also speak with the folks from […]

Did you miss the extravaganza this year? Wish you were at NECC 2009 but couldn’t make it? Hate NECC and want to snipe from afar? Here are some resources that […]

Since the past two have been so successful, I am putting out a call for people to participate in Leadership Day 2009. As I said two years ago: n n […]

Count ’em: Four, yes four, CoverItLive sessions for Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC: n n Kristin Hokanson n ISTE Connects n TechChicks n TeachPaperless n n […]

The Internet’s down here at NECC 2009. “Too many people – it overloaded the system” has been the response. n WRONG ANSWER. The convention center knew 14,000 techies were coming. […]

Here are my notes from the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) Release Celebration here at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC. The new NETS-A are a big update from […]

I am by no means anti-corporation. And many companies have been very good to me and CASTLE. And I know they’re an important part of the NECC convention each year. And […]

Thought I’d share some recent publicity that CASTLE and I have gotten. I’ve been sitting on some of these for a while and wanted to get them all out so […]

NECC ’09 and Edubloggercon ’09 are underway! We had a quick intro from Steve Hargadon, then broke into sessions. I stayed for Vicki Davis’Web 2.0 Smackdown. Here are the tools […]

The sign of a good unconference is when every session you attend goes over time, people don’t want to leave, conversation pushes into the next scheduled session, etc. EVERY session I attended […]

These are my notes from the 3rd annual Constructivist Celebration, hosted by Gary Stager at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Gary Stager 150 participants here today See constructivistconsortium.org/books for constructivist teaching […]