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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 […]
The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) is an incredible technology leadership resource for school administrators. If you have not spent some time on the TICAL web site, you […]
A new video from John Spencer: [Hat tip to Greg Carroll]
Last week was another phenomenal week of guest blogging here at Dangerously Irrelevant. I had invited guests to reflect on how to reconcile standards- and data-driven accountability with so-called ‘21st […]
I have been known to say that there’s not much in your children’s textbooks that isn’t available in at least a dozen places online for free. But, hey, maybe I’m […]
On Monday I launch The Textbook Challenge. What’s that, you say? You’ll have to wait and see. I’m giving out prizes. Hope you’ll participate!