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 […]
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Are you (or your superintendent) going to be at the AASA conference next week? I’d love to get together Thursday night or Friday morning after my presentation. If so, drop […]
The Iowa Technology Education Connection (ITEC) conference each year is fairly small. Despite its size, however, it tends to bring in some really big-name speakers for its keynote addresses. Last […]
Listen to this post! As promised, here are the results of the Dangerously Irrelevant 2007 Education Blogosphere Survey… I made a short Flash video describing the general findings (or you […]
Since David posted about one of his data-driven decision-making (DDDM) projects yesterday, I thought I’d chime in with some info about a massive DDDM initiative underway here in Minnesota… The […]
The question of using genetic enhancement to raise test scores may seem like a bad joke—or science fiction. But U.S. policymakers and families, may need to start asking themselves if they can “win the future” without it.
We’ve all been floored by the footage and information about the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan (video) and the tsunami that followed. Some of the footage is stunning – like nothing I’ve […]
When we feel distant from our work—when it seems wonderfully far away—we are able to think about work in a new way. We have the breakthrough while on break, says Jonah Lehrer.
Professor of the “social studies of science” at M.I.T., Sherry Turkle summarizes her new view with eloquence: “We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
Non-human animals are a lot smarter, and less “reflexive” or “instinct-based” than most people think. And maybe we humans are a bit more reflexive than we’d like to believe.
The other day I asked for examples of practical post-rationality—changes in law or policy that happened because institutions have stopped assuming that people behave rationally. A number of people wrote […]
Some of you know Clay Burell from his first blog, Beyond School. But what most folks don’t know is that Clay was selected by the folks at Change.orgto be their […]
[IMPT] This post is likely to offend a few people – I decided to post it anyway. If you’d like to tell me your opinion about this article? Tweet me […]
The website Neurotree shows the biographical roots of ideas, mapping them like a genealogical chart—which mentors brought forth which proteges and who in turn mentored others.
The March 26 issue of U.S. News & World Report includes a cool cover story on what America can learn from the rest of the world: “We have the biggest […]
n Within the tech world, the explosive growth of Twitter has (literally) been front page news over the past six months, with Twitter appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine […]
Chad Frerichs, Director of Technology for the Okoboji (IA) Community Schools, listened to Episode 4 of the 4 Guys Talking podcast and disagreed with Jeff Mao’s assertion that netbooks were […]
I don’t blog about technology tools too often, but I thought I’d share my computer setup at home (my setup at work is quite similar): I have no data files […]
I got this e-mail last week from a media company (and, no, you probably don’t know who it is): [We have] an outstanding group blog. I’d like to get more […]
Today we officially topped 60 participants for CASTLE’s first annual summer book club. That’s great! – and many more people than I ever anticipated – but it also presents some […]
Earlier this month I featured a report from the Communication Workers of America (CWA) as my Report of the Week. Although I know that each of you usually reads every […]
“High on hope, supporters heralded Obama as the new FDR. Two years later, many feel disillusioned. But FDR’s actual record puts today’s gripes about Obama into perspective.”
My name is Jon Becker and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Foundations, Leadership and Policy Studies (FLPS) of the School of Education and Allied Human Services […]
[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 […]
3-D printing and rapid prototyping have been among the hottest trends in design innovation this year. But Urbee, a two-passenger hybrid vehicle whose entire body has been generated using a […]
Al-Qaeda in Yemen Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. Location:Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePanel: Gregory D. Johnsen, Shari Villarosa, Christopher Boucek U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts dealt […]
Technology has changed the way that men buy sex making it possible for a greater share of sex workers to work indoors. This may sound like workers are moving off […]
Apple has a long track record of introducing innovative new products, such as the iPod and the iPhone, to popular and critical acclaim. In a witty satire piece, The Onion […]
n As one of the premier strategy consulting companies in the world, McKinsey has always been a pipeline of future CEO talent for the nation’s leading businesses. The number of […]
So much of what makes for a great innovator is not the ability to come up with a great idea — but, rather, the ability to “merchandise” that great idea […]