Joe Bower asked if showing teachers how to make self-graded quizzes for students using Google Docs had any value. Specifically, he said: When technology is used to accelerate the worst […]

G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that -- […]

[cross-posted at The Huffington Post] I've watched this TED talk by Sugata Mitra several times now. And every time I watch it, my brain keeps asking the same question: In […]

The documentary film Waiting for Superman debuted on September 24, 2010. To date it has only grossed $2.7 million at the box office. Just in case you were wondering, however, […]

American students generally have the legal right to express their opinions at home on their free time using non-school computer equipment. So here are a few students expressing their opinions […]

Diana Senechal left the following comment over on a Wall Street Journal article about computers' burgeoning ability to individualize student learning: While "individualized instruction" seems an unequivocal good, perhaps it […]

Many organizational web sites are simply online brochures: static entities with a few pages of information. They’re not interactive. They’re not updated. Once you’ve read the text and seen the […]

Are you an infrequent edublogger? Would you like to blog more but often have writer’s block? If so, check out Melanie Holtsman’s Fall Blog Challenge. She has a list of weekly […]

Corey Dahl (@coreydahlevent) fired his Flip video camera and filmed the event: Happy viewing!

Last December I posted the below video, which is about cyberbullying. Some young people who say they are ‘cutters’ and/or are having suicidal thoughts are leaving comments on the blog post. […]

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Connected Principals blog is now a member of the CASTLE blog family. Connected Principals currently has 22 school administrators blogging about technology […]

Today's front-page headline on the paper version of USA Today: Has social media gone too far? n Seriously? That's the headline? n When a drunk driver runs over someone, do we blame the […]

In September I had an awesome guest blog series on the topic of what teachers need from administrators. Curt Fuller, a principal in Florida, said I should have a series […]

In September 2007 I profiled a book that I had purchased called The 21st Century Principal. In that post, I noted the extreme paucity of content related to digital technologies, […]

Here’s a video from GOOD and the University of Phoenix. Happy viewing! (hat tip to Dennis Richards)

Miguel Guhlin had an awesome post yesterday about being a courageous edublogger. Here are a couple of quotes: I have found that discussing some topics usually ruffle feathers of those […]

Steve Dembo said: I don't see it as teachers spurning technology, or choosing not to take advantage of those new ideas and tools. I think most teachers don't even realize […]

First up in my analysis of my children's textbooks for The Textbook Challenge: my 7th-grade daughter's Environmental Science text. The purpose of the challenge is to compare textbook content to […]

The School Administrators of Iowa (SAI), which has been a critical partner and steadfast supporter of our work here at CASTLE, asked all of its members to recommend some advocacy priorities […]

Here's a quote for you: n n ... I've decided to hang up my blogging hat. I was a fool, and I didn't anticipate how this kind of thing could […]