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- Dispatches from the (Family) Front Lines
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:53:09 +0000
So just a couple of quick education centered observations about this past weekend, spent with various family members from both sides: First, one of my tribe is a teacher at one of the top 15 high schools as listed in the current version of Connecticut Magazine. It’s a very well off district that sends a high [...] - Reading to Find: Rip-Mix Classrooms
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:11:58 +0000
Ok, so humor me for a minute here… Here’s what I LOVE about reading on the Web, when I get into a link flow that dances me from blog to blog, post to connected post and comments, and after about 20 minutes of just letting myself be carried away by the threads of conversations I land [...] - Writing to Connect
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:47:38 +0000
So a number of different threads are congealing in my tired brain regarding writing and blogging and why we do all of this stuff. The post that finally led me to try to get this down was Bud’s Brain Dump on NCTE where he quotes council president Kathleen Blake Yancey as saying this: If you are [...] - New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators (3mb)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:21:47 +0000
So here is the money quote from the just released study from the MacArthur Foundation titled “Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project” (pdf): New media allow for a degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is less apparent in classroom setting. Youth respect one another?s authority online, [...] - ?The Less You Share, the Less Power You Have?
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:55:06 +0000
My friend Bruce Dixon pointed out to me a few weeks ago that if you do a search for “lesson plans” in Google you get almost 9 million hits, which, when you think about it, is a pretty amazing number. Not saying that they are all great plans, mind you, but when you think about [...] - A Ray of Hope?
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:13:06 +0000
So, I’m thinking it’s got to be a good sign when one of the people Obama has picked to head up the FCC review team has been quoted as saying this: “We’re not doing at all well for reasons that mostly have to do with the fact that we failed to have a US industrial policy [...] - Get. Off. Paper.
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:35:58 +0000
The other day I was talking to a school administrator about an upcoming hands-on workshop and she asked if I could e-mail her the schedule to handout the morning of the event. For some strange reason I just said “Nope. No paper.” After a short silence, she said, “Oh…ok.” “No, I mean it,” I said. “We’re going [...] - The Change Will Happen
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:25:05 +0000
So it was pretty humbling to get a chance to meet George Lucas on Friday and to hear him give his take on the future of education for about 45 minutes. And it was a pretty amazing day overall at Big Rock/Skywalker Ranch, sitting with some very passionate educators and fellow GLEF advisors from around [...] - GLEF Webinar Follow-Up
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:11 +0000
Thanks so much to those of you who participated in today’s inaugural George Lucas Education Foundation webinar. Here’s hoping that you found the conversation thought-provoking and valuable. As promised, because of the limited time for questions, please feel free to use the commenting function on my blog to ask anything that we may not have had [...] - Obama
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:37:45 +0000
Doesn’t matter who you voted for, history was made last night. I, for one, am happy for my kids. No matter how the impact of paper newspapers is declining, at moments like these, there’s still nothing like the front page of the paper, not the website, that gives me goosebumps. And in that vein, I’m cruising [...] - ?Footprints in the Digital Age?
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:07:38 +0000
From the “Shameless Self-Promotion Department” I just wanted to note that for whatever reason, my essay in the November issue of Educational Leadership has been picked for free Web viewing. Would love to hear your thoughts… Viagra canada online Cheap viagra india Cialis europe get Purchase drug soma Buy taladafil viagra Cheapest viagra price Soma cheap Canadian discount viagra Levitra prescription medication Carisoprodol cheap soma Order [...] - Mourning Old Media, Mourning Old Media Teachers
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:56:05 +0000
I remember when I first starting teaching journalism way back in the day actually using one of those stinky, buzz-inducing ditto machines to publish my students’ work “widely” up and down the hallways. I remember copy-editing by hand with green Flair pen, the same color my dreaded college journalism professors used, teaching my kids the [...] - It?s the Parents? Fault. Not.
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:27:07 +0000
Recently, during a Q & A after a presentation, I had an interesting exchange with a high school principal that went something like this: Principal: So I just want to give you my take on this. Me: Sure Principal: You bring up those examples of kids on MySpace and make the point that no one is really teaching [...] - Britannica Debate: Will Web 2.0 be an Integral Part of Education?
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:06:31 +0000
The Britannica blog is hosting a conversation about Web 2.0 in education, and Steve Hargadon argues that the technologies will make a huge impact on the future or learning while Daniel Willingham says not so fast. Both posts are very well done and provide a measured starting point for the discussion. What I found really [...] - Our Kids as Criminals
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:01:57 +0000
Longtime readers of this blog know that I really, really respect and admire Lawrence Lessig who early on pushed my thinking in all sorts of directions with his presentations, books, and blog entries. I’m still a big admirer of his work, and I seriously think he will come to be known as one of the [...]
