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Hot off the press! Advanced readers are bored by drill-and-kill exercises Big surprise, I know. I invite you to read the article and share your thoughts. What do you think […]
In the blogosphere we pay a lot of attention to the folks who blog. We rarely, if ever, recognize those folks who comment. But of course the power of blogs […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Individual choices add up. For example, at the moment when I eat something unhealthy, it seems like a fairly trivial thing. Over time, however, those calories and […]
I rarely share personal news here, but since the word is starting to get out, I might as well publicly announce that I'm leaving the University of Minnesota. I accepted […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted about U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' ed tech woes. Apparently now she wants to hear from YOU. Please give her your thoughts […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] One of the questions that I ask right at the beginning of our students' School Technology Leadership certificate program is whether administrators can be effective […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] nn K-12 and postsecondary education would be very different if we asked ourselvesnthis question more often (thanks,nStephanie). Is your organization ready to take this inquiry to heart […]
On Monday I got an e-mail from an elementary principal: Scott, it looks like I won't be able to follow through with the [Principal Blogging Project]. Our district technology person […]
[cross-posted at Moving at the Speed of Creativity] I've got high schools on my mind . A high school teacher told me recently that her school allows students to try […]
[cross-posted at Moving at the Speed of Creativity] eSchoolNews has a fantastic letter from the editor regarding the federal government's recent evaluation of learning software for schools. The editor lambasts […]
[cross-posted at Moving at the Speed of Creativity] nn U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellingsnis under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the ReadingnFirst corruption scandal, […]
I have a research team that's going to spend the summer interviewing as many of the eSchoolNews technology-savvy superintendents as we can. eSchoolNews has named 10 tech-savvy superintendents for each […]
As part of his five-point proposal to reform schools, Chris Whittle, founder of Edison Schools, proposes that we create five 'principal universities.' As Whittle notes, these would be the equivalent […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] I've been reading Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing by Adam Greenfield. It's a fascinating book and I'm learning a lot. Greenfield's essential premise […]
It may be friendly, but you still want to make sure there's nothing breakable within reach.
Hey, all you educational bloggers! Get the vote out! Vote for Will, or Stephen, or Women of the Web, or (if you're delusional) me, or whomever, but vote!
Jeff Brenman's adaptation of Karl Fisch's Did You Know? presentation is currently the most popular slideshow at SlideShare's World's Best Presentation Contest. If you haven't seen it, Jeff's version is […]