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If you haven't seen it yet, here's a video created by Shawn Gormley and Kevin Honeycutt that highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers: Thanks, […]
The New South Wales province in Australia is on a quest to outfit every Year 9 to 12 student with a customized Lenovo netbook by 2012. It is expected that […]
For those of you who are interested, here are the final regular season standings for BlogBall09, our edublogger fantasy baseball leagues. As league commissioners, apparently both Jon Becker and I got to […]
Just a few days left for THE PUSH! Today we focus on ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. What are some excellent elementary teacher blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We're looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
I have two favorite quotes from Pamela Livingston's excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here's the first one: If it takes 40 minutes for an environmental science class […]
Just 4 days left of THE PUSH! Today we focus on SECONDARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent secondary classroom blogs that 7-12 educators should be reading? We're looking for excellent examples of blogs where […]
I don't know how Chris Lehmann finagled an invite to speak to the FCC, but I sure am glad he did (and that he filmed it!). Click on the picture […]
Just 3 days left for THE PUSH! I don't know how many of these we'll get, but today we focus on SECONDARY TEACHERS. Are there any excellent secondary teacher blogs where 7-12 educators are […]
Just 2 days left for THE PUSH!  I had a moment of panic yesterday because the Moving Forward wiki disappeared completely from the Web. Fortunately Wikispaces resolved the problem quickly and […]
Here's a great quote from Jim Collins' new book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more […]
Today THE PUSH focuses on ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent elementary classroom blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We're looking for excellent examples of blogs where elementary students share their work. […]
A reading teacher contacted me: As the school's remedial reading teacher I was asked to research a reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader. Do you have any suggestions? […]
dear parent   teacher   administrator   board member don't teach your kids to read   for the Web   to scan     RSS     aggregate     synthesize don't teach your kids to write   online pen and paper […]
I took a couple of days off from THE PUSH - guess I was tired! We only identified 1 excellent P-12 athletics / extracurricular activities blog. As we head into the home stretch […]
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) has started a new podcast channel and will be interviewing top educational leadership scholars from around the world about school administrator research and/or […]
From the author of Socialnomics, here's what is perhaps the latest modification of the Did You Know? video. FYI, Did You Know? Version 4 is on target for an October […]
Yesterday was a good day for THE PUSH. We now have a list of 13 excellent P-12 business / computer science education blogs! As we get closer to the end (only […]
This past Saturday was Dangerously Irrelevant's third birthday. Wow. So much for an experiment that I thought I'd try for a few months! Today this blog tipped over the 6,000 […]
Yesterday was a better day for THE PUSH. We identified 8 excellent preschool / early childhood education blogs. We're doing okay in most other areas but could use some help with these: […]
Here are two quotes from Education and Learning to Think, an interesting little research-based book published by the National Research Council way back in 1987! Higher order thinking is nonalgorithmic. […]