I found this video at the Serious Games Market blog. It’s worth reading the full post. Is this idea of creating classroom/school simulations to improve teacher/administrator preparation a good one? […]
Postulate 1: There likely has never been a greater disconnect than right now between the skills our factory-model schools give our graduates and the skills they need for success in a […]
Much like the New Jersey librarian who ‘just said no to Wikipedia,’ New Jersey principal Anthony Orsini received national attention for his letter to parents encouraging them to ban Facebook […]
For an upcoming CASTLE research project, we’re going to do interviews of multiple years’ worth of the winners of eSchoolNews’ technology-savvy superintendents awards. We are soliciting input regarding our interview protocol. These […]
Here is a 2–minute video of me talking about CASTLE and my teaching, part of the Humanizing Science series by the College of Human Sciences here at Iowa State University. […]
Chris Guillebeau says: Many people believe that the key to an improved lifestyle is less work. I think it’s better work. I believe that most of us want to work hard, […]
If you’re interested in educational policy issues and you’re not reading Dr. Bruce Baker, you should be. Bruce is the author of CASTLE’s school finance / policy blog, School Finance […]
Will Richardson and Alec Couros are frustrated with their kids’ teachers. Lee Kolbert pushed back. Gary Stager chimed in too as did many others in the various comment areas. n […]
Michelle Young, Executive Director of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), recently asked whether educational leadership professors should spend some of their time as practicing administrators. This would be […]
What happens when you ask 7 amazing, thoughtful educators to guest blog on a topic? Unsurprisingly, you get 7 amazing, thoughtful posts and a phenomenal week of conversing, thinking, and learning! Here […]
There are only so much bagels and coffee to go around. Most of the staff will have their pickings from the muffins (usually gone by the 50th staff member), and […]
My colleague, Dr. John Nash, sent me two messages recently that I think are worth some attention. Like John, I agree that university educational leadership programs need to wake up […]
Hat tip:TechLand. Might be worth buying Lane Smith’s book!
“Our students are pressured to perform. They are not necessarily pressured to learn deeply and conceptually. . . . Things that actually get our students to think are pushed aside. […]
I’m excited about my new guest blog series. I asked seven education bloggers to respond to this question: What do teachers need from administrators? Next week we’ll see what they have […]
I love the ending of this 60second video! Are we? n Hat tip:Jeff Ronneberg nn
Just thinking out loud here… Should colleges, universities, and/or P-12 schools be required (or encouraged) to indicate on student transcripts that a particular course or program is partly or wholly […]
Here’s a comment I just left over at another blog: Thank you for your thoughtful extension of the conversation at my blog. I always appreciate when others express their misgivings […]
The Economic Policy Institute’s new report, Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers, cautions against heavy reliance on the use of test scores in teacher evaluation. […]
Thought I’d share these two videos from the launch of the Spirit Lake (IA) Community Schools new 1:1 laptop initiative. Fun!
