Quick! Name a long term, substantive, sustainable change that occurred in your organization without the active support of your leadership. I’ll wait… That’s what I thought. Now why aren’t you […]
Postman & Weingartner (1968, p. 23) noted: Knowledge is produced in response to questions. And new knowledge results from the asking of new questions; quite often new questions about old […]
After much deliberation and several delays, Wesley Fryer and I have picked a winner for the NECC button design contest. We had 22 different button submissions. We narrowed it down […]
One of the perks of being named a Leader in Learning by the cable industry is that you usually get a profile in its monthly magazine. This month’s issue of […]
I’m going to try something new this summer. I just finished reading Influencer: The power to change anything. It’s possibly the best leadership book that I’ve read in years and […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn I’m going to do something I’ve never done before as a blogger: resurrect an old post. Over the past few months I’ve read all […]
Greg Davis, Executive Director of Management Support Services (basically he’s the CTO) for the Des Moines (IA) Public Schools received his doctorate on May 9 from Iowa State University. As […]
If you haven’t yet done so, The Rise of the Rest in Newsweek is worth reading. Here’s an excerpt (hat tip to Richard Florida): American parochialism is particularly evident in […]
The News Service Office here at Iowa State University has issued me a challenge: use my online network to come up with some ideas for parents to cure kids’ mid-summer […]
Dr. Jim Gee notes: If learning always operates well within the learner’s resources, then all that happens is that the learner’s behaviors get more and more routinized, as the learner […]
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Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on the CASTLE Advisory Board. We had many, many more applicants than we possibly could take. Although having too many people […]
I think I may have just found the opening video for my Monday presentation to the Ames Noon Rotary. Kudos to the Pearson Foundation Digital Arts Alliance and the Consortium […]
As promised, here is my interview of Mike Vitelli, CEO of The Gaming Krib: Conversation 29: Interview with Mike Vitelli Happy listening!
Kudos to Dan Meyer for being named as a 2008 Leader in Learning by the cable industry! A complete list of the winners is at the Leaders in Learning web […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] My city’s public library is a wonderful place. It hosts a variety of well-attended events, has a phenomenal children’s section, and serves as a real […]
Many of you know that I’m asking the edublogosphere to gradually help me flesh out the Moving Forward wiki so that it can be a valuable resource to presenters and […]
Why does it bother me so much to see principals on this list? St. Paul (MN) Public Schools Labor Agreements
Dennis Richards, a superintendent in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is trying to get the annual ASCD conference to recognize the power and the potential of the Social Web. Help him out by […]
I really wanted to like the Creating Valuable Class Web Sites article in the May 2008 issue of Learning and Leading With Technology. I really did. I believe strongly that […]
