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I am extremely pleased that Iowa State University approved my request to take my first-ever sabbatical this fall semester. I will be spending the bulk of my time away working […]
Just a few weeks after publicizing our first-ever Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I), we already have over 300 people who have registered to attend on April 7. Our registration is capped at 500, so […]
The ISTE SIGAdmin just asked its membership two questions. Here are my answers... 1. How has the Internet changed thinking? The Internet has allowed distributed thinking (and thus learning) to […]
Any thoughts on this?
Here's the latest educational technology video that's making the rounds. I know a few professors like this! "If you are here, why are we Skyping?"
Here's a 10-minute video I helped make that advocates for P-12 online learning. Created by Intermediate District 287 in Minnesota, which heads up the Northern Star Online collaborative, the video […]
In case you missed the news, Google's latest service, Buzz, is now available to most users of Gmail. Here are three Google Buzz conversations from which I'm learning a lot: […]
Many of you may have seen this commercial for Kaplan University. It made the rounds in the edublogosphere because of its message about change, talent, and learner-centered instruction. I've used it […]
Like most states, Iowa is concerned with the retention rate of its new teachers. Over the past decade Iowa has instituted a number of different efforts to combat new teacher […]
I'm reading a fantastic book right now: Futurecast, by Robert Shapiro. In the section on globalization, Shapiro notes that the first waves of globalization primarily affected manufacturing. Millions of American […]
I am a big fan of student choice. When students work on projects, I think that they should have as much choice as possible regarding both the topic and the […]
A baker's dozen of great Scott blogs... Dilbert Blog, Scott Adams Scott Berkun, Scott Berkun (wrote a fantastic book, BTW!) Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider, Scott Kelby HELLO, my name is […]
Seth Godin wrote today that: People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: […]
On January 28, several students in the Van Meter Community School District demonstrated to Iowa legislators the work that they are now able to do as a result of the […]
Iowa's first-ever conference dedicated solely to P-12 laptop programs, the Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I), will be on April 7, 2010 at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines. Administrators, […]
This is the message that I just sent my Education Law and Ethics students (the two cohorts are in Des Moines and Mason City, Iowa). Thought I'd share here too... […]
In case you missed them, here are a couple of slides that Darren Kuropatwa recently posted in the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool: Slide credits Knowledge isn't in our […]
According to Feedburner, here are the subscriber numbers for Dangerously Irrelevant for the past 7 days. Either Feedburner's got a glitch in its monitoring/reporting or people are finally discovering my brilliance (it's […]
Last month I gave an inspired presentation to the Board of Directors for the National Education Association (NEA), our nation's largest teachers union. As you can see from the NEA's […]
[Cross-posted at the Iowa 1to1 Network] As the following chart illustrates, more Iowa workers were employed in May 2008 than in any other month in the past two years. Since […]