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Today Seth Godin blogged: When the truth is just around the corner … what’s your posture? … When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, […]
Dan Mourlam said in his recent post that he didn’t think 1:1 laptop initiatives were the starting point for transforming education. Instead, educators should begin with a critical examination of […]
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and Fablevision have just released a short animated film, Above and Beyond, that emphasizes the value of the 4 Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, […]
I’ve spent the last two days at the Iowa Education Summit. Now that it’s over, I have a multitude of thoughts and observations swirling around in my head. Here are eight… […]
Since the past four have been so successful [last year we had 114 posts!], I am putting out a call for people to participate in Leadership Day 2011. To paraphrase what I […]
I served on a panel, Education in a Digital World, at the Iowa Education Summit today. Here is what I said during my 5 minutes of opening remarks. Good afternoon, We have to […]
Riley Lark asks, ‘What’s at the heart of your classroom?‘ At the heart of mine are the concepts of student agency and continuous reflection, revision, and renewal. I teach graduate students: […]
Three videos worth watching… In Fall 2008, only 6 school districts in Iowa had a 1:1 student laptop initiative in place. In Fall 2011, as many as 90 to 100 districts […]
I had a conversation with Scott Meech at Edubloggercon this year in which we discussed the fine line between ‘naming the problem so we can solve it’ and ‘shaming and […]
Kathy is a teacher. She has a basket. Kathy puts all of her favorite things in her basket and takes it everywhere so that they’re close at hand. Because she’s […]
Paul Bogush pushed back (in a nice way) on my recently-popular post, If you were on Twitter. First he wrote about how most educators are too busy to be involved in […]
What is information literacy in the context of an MMORPG? How do you assess learning in a tabletop RPG? What makes a proficient reader of graphic novels? How do readers […]
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. This simple, succinct introduction opens the door […]
The first day of GLS7 brought with it plenty of spirited debate and intense arguments, as you are likely to have with any diverse group of passionate professionals, but none so […]
[If you’re willing, I could use a little help with an upcoming keynote to educators…] Digital technologies and the Internet are causing the lines to blur in a number of […]
Well, I finally wrote the article I always wanted to write: a letter to my 3,000+ faculty peers in Educational Leadership preparation programs all across the country about how our […]
Want to have a great experience at the 2011 ISTE Conference? Here are 7 tips to get you started… Approach every vendor booth and presentation with one question in mind: […]
Three upcoming events worth noting… ISTE The annual ISTE conference is right around the corner. Over 13,000 people attended last year, along with 456 vendors. The annual goal is to […]
I asked fellow BigThink blogger Kirsten Winkler if she would join me in writing about the recently-released 2011 K-12 Horizon Report. She’s done a nice job of summarizing the six […]
