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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As budget cuts loom again in many states, employee termination, seniority, and ‘bumping rights’ are in the news. The essential issue is whether organizational leaders should be able to retain the employees […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Group notes from Daniel Pink’s keynote speech at ITEC 2009. ITEC Daniel Pink Keynote
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n [I]n American education, policy making is not guided by what is best for children or the larger public. It is a political […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the […]
