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My latest Report of the Week (ROTW) comes from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2007 Digital Equity Summit: A National Consideration of Digital Equity Here's a quote […]
Karl Fisch and I are very pleased to announce the new version of Did You Know? Did You Know? 2.0 As you'll see, we tried to minimize what some perceived […]
It's time for the second installment of a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, one that I've oh-so-creatively titled Report of the Week (ROTW). This week's report is from the […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] A few back-of-the-envelope calculations here (estimating conservatively when in doubt)... A. Number of students and teachers 50 million public school students+3.3 million public school […]
From a colleague's e-mail autoreply: I am away for the summer semester and will return Aug 15, 2007. I will not be able to respond to your e-mail until then. […]
I'll tell you something I've noticed from visiting a lot of American schools: the more traditional the teacher, the grimmer the mood. These classrooms don't always resemble Dickensian factories, mind […]
Five days ... twenty posts on school change ... did we learn anything? Miguel Guhlin says, "Just finished skimming your entries. . . . Now, what do I do on […]
Will Richardson's post covered the article in the New York Times about the growing popularity of virtual worlds for tweens (and younger). Think Club Penguin, Webkinz, etc. Will's post included […]
The Washington Post has a tremendously sad series this week on the horrible state of the Washington, DC public schools, which are generally last in the country on any given […]
Back in March I posted that I was a finalist for the cable industry's Leaders in Learning Awards . Last Wednesday I was officially named a winner . I spent […]
Okay, it's time to try out a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant: the Report of the Week (ROTW). Can I find and feature an interesting education-related report each and […]
NCTE hates the idea. Teachers and administrators have mixed feelings. But are scripted curricula racist? Classist? Join the discussion at The Elementary Educator...
Are you a great teacher? A great principal? Know someone who is? You and they have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a difference at the epicenter of urban school reform. […]
One of the highlights of my trip to Washington, DC for the Leaders in Learning Awards was my interview with KFAI Radio back home in Minneapolis (click on the red […]
Two more weeks ... Three more days ... You hear these kinds of statements often during the last few weeks of school. I remember feeling this way when I was […]
Are edubloggers mostly white and middle class? What proportion of edubloggers have advanced degrees in instructional technology? Brian Grenier wants to find out the answers to these and other questions. […]
As I look around at all of the technology gear I've accumulated over the past few years, I can only come to one conclusion: I've got too much stuff. I […]
n Most organizations are paralyzed, stuck in a rut, staring at the growth paradox. On one hand, they understand all the good things that will come with growth. On the […]
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Buckingham & Coffman. (1999). First, break all the rules: What the world's greatest managers do differently. A really, really great book for leaders and change agents.