One of the free online features of today’s Wall Street Journal is a trailer for Bollywood’s version of the Rocky Balboa story. (Look carefully – that’s not Sylvester Stallone, that’s […]
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n nJeff De Cagna, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is hosting the first-ever Innovation Bloggers Virtual Forum on April 26. The event will consist of two separate […]
For anyone interested in innovation within the automotive sector, I’d suggest keeping an eye on Cerberus Capital Management. (The private equity firm is named for the mythological three-headed dog that […]
In business, new opportunities often result from the ability to capitalize on an emerging cultural trend. When it comes to spotting this intersection of culture and commerce, advertising & communications […]
“I believe in a forgiving God,” Newt Gingrich said the other day when he was asked to reconcile his public defense of “traditional marriage” with the fact that he cheated […]
Did you miss the Megalobster, the youth condom, turbine-free wind power, perfect parallel parking, D.I.Y. macroeconomics, the long-life-span Smartphone or the emotional spell-check?
Every time I make a list of the ‘top’ edublogs (as measured by Technorati ranking), it seems that I also end up writing a follow-up post. For example, I wrote […]
Listen to this post! Know thyself and Nothing in excess (inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Since I’ve now been ‘tagged’ with the 5 Things […]
Educators today are expected to integrate the collection and analysis of student learning data into their ongoing instructional and organizational practice. Yet if you walked into almost any school in […]
This past Saturday was Dangerously Irrelevant’s third birthday. Wow. So much for an experiment that I thought I’d try for a few months! Today this blog tipped over the 6,000 […]
I’m getting excited for NECC 2009. Just a few more weeks and I’ll be griping about the hot, muggy weather in my hometown of Washington, D.C. I can’t wait! Those […]
It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. The past two years at this time, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since […]
Laura said : There are a lot of Ed Tech blogs and they don’t appeal to the average teacher who is not a tech junkie. Would you consider doing a […]
Forget about 3-D movies and television, says the Christian Science Monitor. 3-D holograms, once seen only in science-fiction movies like Star Wars, are swiftly becoming a reality.
The thought that hormones somehow “control” our moods and behaviors is a falsehood, a popular oversimplification that hinders the understanding of what is actually going on.
Open Congress has the latest on the senate Democrats’ filibuster reform plan: Senators Tom Udall [D, NM], Tom Harkin [D, IA] and Jeff Merkley [D, OR] have released an official […]
Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money is a first-rate historical study of the growth of the modern financial system — and a look ahead at what might happen now that […]
Last summer many of you helped create our wonderful lists of grade-level and subject-specific blogs that other educators could load into their RSS readers. I’m bouncing around a few thoughts […]
I often get asked by administrators for some recommended reading. Here are some of my favorite books on delivering effective presentations. If the Amazon widget doesn’t load in a few […]
[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 […]
“Can the innovative ‘do-it-yourself’ education movement really replace the dying university model?” Alan Jacobs says universities are decadent outposts in austere times.
Michael Hartl is the author of The Tau Manifesto, which argues that, quite simply, pi is wrong. He’s also a physicist who has previously both studied and taught at Harvard and Caltech.
What happens when you ask 7 amazing, thoughtful educators to guest blog on a topic? Unsurprisingly, you get 7 amazing, thoughtful posts and a phenomenal week of conversing, thinking, and learning! Here […]
As I look around at all of the technology gear I’ve accumulated over the past few years, I can only come to one conclusion: I’ve got too much stuff. I […]
In a guest post today, Lauren Krizel reports on an event held this week in Washington, DC that gathered some of the city’s top chefs to discuss sustainability and the […]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of graduating two Ph.D. students here at Iowa State University. Commencement is always one of my favorite times as a faculty member. Dr. Kim Buryanek […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager is climbing the charts. n At the beginning […]
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 […]
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has been on an unbelievable tear this year. Back in February it released its annual Trends Report on NCLB Title II, Part D (Enhancing […]
Bud Hunt posted in Twitter about The Gaming Krib. Here’s the basic premise of the service this company’s trying to sell: n n It has the ability to shut off […]