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A recent article from The Economist, The Cult of the Faceless Boss, caught my attention. Here's an excerpt: n n In general, the corporate world needs its flamboyant visionaries and raging […]
Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are […]
I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn't bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn't sufficiently account for the needs and […]
Why aren't schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here's what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular […]
I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. I've taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate […]
There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post […]
WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected?, on last night's news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja, Professor and Director of Iowa […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] October apparently was 'Library Month' for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association […]
A conversation I had with a superintendent at Nebraska's first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference... Superintendent: I'm new to my district. I spent the first year getting the lay of the […]
Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion. Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic […]
[cross-posted at CASTLE's 1-to-1 Schools blog] While at Nebraska's first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference, I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop […]
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I spent yesterday with technology integrationists from the various Educational Service Units in Nebraska. In my experience, technology integrationists usually are wonderful people who know a lot about digital societal […]
Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair […]
Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha's Homework Day. The company is inviting students to submit their homework problems to see if/how Wolfram Alpha can solve them. Should be interesting... Will you or your […]
Some of you have noticed that I've got a new blog! I'm using Posterous to capture those online items that interest me but for which I don't have time (or […]
Group notes from David Warlick's keynote at ITEC 2009. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b94b3ef7cd" >ITEC David Warlick Keynote</a> Keywords: redefine literacy Warlick
David Warlick is a wonderful speaker and an even more wonderful person. I was very fortunate to spend some time with him last night and this morning. I have very […]
Russ Goerendposted a couple of short video snippets from our small Tweetup at ITEC 2009 (for some reason a host of Flip cameras suddenly emerged...). In addition to a number […]
ISTE is asking us to help select one of its next conference keynotes. I am asking you to please vote for my suggestion: n n As of this moment, the top three […]