Whew! It’s consumed a lot of my time the past week but I am pleased to say that the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club is off and running! [Okay, more […]
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Registration for the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club closes this Wednesday at midnight. To date we have 159 participants, which blows the doors off of last year’s total of 125. […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… Edjurist Scott Bauries discussed how the No Child Left Behind Act has introduced some new angles […]
Five online resources worth checking out… TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live. The Des Moines Register profiled an […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Men and women who carried lunch pails and spent their days on assembly lines could earn good wages, own their own homes, feed their families, […]
Richard Longworth says… n n State officials know perfectly well that globalization will swallow their traditional industries. But they’re stuck. Workers vote, and a voter who has just lost his […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Most of [the] earlier outsourcing dealt with manufacturing and factory workers. . . . The newest wave is different. It’s white-collar outsourcing . . . […]
Michael Port says… n n When we are thinking small, we crave preordained outcomes. We want to know what’s going to happen before we begin. Control is an illusion. The […]
n Larry Ferlazzo has a fantastic post about the videos at TED Talks and a variety of supporting resources for teachers, presenters, etc. This is a must read! n In […]
Michael Port says… n n With small thinking, we cannot grow intellectually, spiritually, creatively, emotionally, financially. And when we cannot grow, society cannot grow. It cannot advance. It cannot […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Alec Couros has asked his readers to recommend readings that will expand his Associate Dean’s “understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and […]
Michael Port says… Revolution is about one person at a time experiencing their own personal empowerment against an existing, deficient (small thinking) system. (p. 13) We are the biggest obstacle […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Shelly Blake-Pock takes on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Mashable highlights the top 7 Twitter tutorials on YouTube. America likes to foist its […]
We’re down to two weeks before the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club starts and we’ve got 81 participants signed up already. That’s great! We will be reading Why Don’t Students […]
Five online resources worth checking out… “We need to be inspired. We need to be encouraged. We need to spend time doing things we love. We want to change the […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… LeaderTalk James Yap discussed how a highly-acclaimed deaf education program actually treats deafness as a pathology. […]
In my never-ending quest to wrap my head around workforce data despite no background or training whatsoever, I’ve been playing around with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site. […]
Mark Ramsey notes that your web site / blog visitors ask two primary questions: Why should I come at all? Why should I come back? Whether you’re a corporation, government, […]
