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Incumbents very seldom invent the future. – Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, in Dinosaur at the Gate
Which schools are good models that others could (should) visit to see what a new educational paradigm might look like? This is the #1 question I get asked when I […]
Yesterday was Episode 4 of 4 Guys Talking, the new 'talk radio' podcast series from CASTLE. We spent the entire time talking about 1:1 laptop programs. Our first 50 minutes was spent […]
Tomorrow is Iowa State University's first-ever symposium for the new ComETS group here on campus. Modeled after a similar group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ComETS is an attempt to bring […]
George Siemens - ComETS Keynote
A pilot study at Ohio State University has found that Facebook users in college have lower grades and spend less time studying. I pieced together the following chart from the […]
This is a long overdue post that Episode 3 of 4 Guys Talking, the new 'talk radio' podcast series from CASTLE, is now available. As usual, our conversation ranged a […]
I'm pleased to announce that Jeff Mao, Learning Technology Policy Director for the State of Maine, will be our first-ever official guest at 4 Guys Talking. Jeff will be joining […]
I've probably watched this video clip of Paul Potts a dozen times and I still choke up when I see it [click on picture to see video]: Now Britain has […]
Some brilliance from Sue King over at LeaderTalk: I have said, "We must be explicit about what we want students to know, understand and be able to do." What some […]
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Larry Ferlazzo blogged yesterday about PostRank's list of the top education blogs as measured by "engagement." I think PostRank has the potential to be a really useful tool but right […]
Neither Todd Seal nor Dan Meyer agree with my assertion that teachers should be able to identify at least 10 good web sites for their classes. Todd says: I'm typically looking […]
TIME has a new article out on the use of Web 2.0 tools by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Apparently Intellipedia, a classified version of Wikipedia, has been "transforming […]
I greatly enjoyed Clive Thompson's recent Wired article on netbooks. For years laptop manufacturers have been giving us more and more powerful computers: bigger hard drives, more memory, faster processing […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] As we all know, we are in the midst of a massive economic downturn. Every month is accompanied by reports of additional, large-scale layoffs. People are losing their jobs in […]
Recently I was interviewed for The Chronicle of Higher Education's article on academics who Twitter. Here's my portion of the story: n n 8. Scott McLeod,an associate professor at Iowa State […]
Here's a graph that's probably only of interest to me but I thought I'd share it anyway. If you're really interested, you can view the live graph. I'll update it at […]
This seems like a seemingly simple question for teachers: Could you identify 10 excellent web sites for your grade level / subject area? Ideally, of course, teachers would know 10 or […]