I just finished reading Everything Bad Is Good For You . The author, Steven Johnson, makes a quite-convincing case that today's popular culture and media (video games, television, Internet, movies), […]

[cross-posted at The Gate] In case you haven't been following the issue, the federal government can't make up its mind regarding Internet filtering. On the one hand, government attorneys vigorously […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] I found this map of Ray Sims' personal learning environment via a link from Stephen Downes (thanks, Stephen!). It's a neat idea. I'm guessing that it would […]

As director of CASTLE, the nation's only center dedicated to the technology leadership needs of K-12 school administrators, I've been named a finalist (again) for the cable industry's Leaders in […]

As promised, here is the link to the Women of the Web 2.0 podcast and chat transcript from March 20, 2007: Women of the Web 2.0 Administrator Supershow Thanks to […]

To quote Casey Kasem: 'the hits just keep on coming.' Only in this case, the hits aren't so good (at least not for American education). In case you haven't been […]

How many times did I hear the title of this post when I was growing up in Virginia and visiting my relatives in the South?! Hope you can join me, […]

[cross-posted at The Gate] Someone recently sent me the following quote from a school administrator (regarding legal concerns related to technology initiatives): The school district is legally obligated to protect […]

Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts. Things that have caught my eye... Helpful school guidelines Ewan McIntosh kindly shares East Lothian's self-publishing and social media guidelines for students […]

I hate the whole concept of Fox's television show, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Here's why... The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thought it would be fun to have local […]

I started a new blog last week. At the Schoolhouse Gate, a.k.a. "The Gate," will focus on school law issues. The Gate is intended to be a space where news […]

As I speak with districts about ramping up for the 21st century , special education teachers and directors have asked me several times lately: What will the role of adults […]

Does your school organization make decisions because they sound good or because internal analysis shows they're the right decisions to make? In other words, what department do your decisions fall […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] [Law students learn to argue both sides of any issue because as attorneys they may be hired for either side of a case. Knowledge of […]

Both Will Richardson and Andrew Pass blogged about tonight's conversation with Senator Lamar Alexander regarding the proposed America COMPETES legislation. I will be participating in that conference call too. FYI, […]

It may be that few of you are interested in this besides me, but I thought I'd post on the impact that Did You Know? has had on this blog […]

Cara Hagen has a fun post on her EdTechConnection blog describing the challenges she faces as she tries to balance blogging and learning new technologies with the other demands of […]

Recently I had the good fortune to be a featured guest on Comcast Newsmakers, a show that runs occasionally after CNN Headline News and is viewed across Minnesota and western […]

In the March issue of NEA Today magazine, a high school Spanish teacher writes in: I use a lottery to reward homework completion. All my students write their names on […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] One of the reasons I like the Eduwonk blog so much is that Andy Rotherham doesn't pull any punches. I may not always agree with what he […]