Reflecting on Reflection
What makes you smarter? I bet you have a pretty good idea by now. Personally, I get a little smarter every time I’m behind the edit pane of this blog. I have a new bit of research to share that… Continue Reading
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Avoiding “Unmitigated Disasters”
Yet another After stumbling upon the article, “Switch to e-books was ‘an unmitigated disaster,’ says school principal,” in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly predictable patterns surrounding stories of failed “innovation” in digital… Continue Reading
EdWeekSJSD: A Litany of Thanks
The calm after the storm I’m beat, but delightfully so. Deep learning is hard work. Designing an ecosystem in which others can learn deeply is even tougher. Teachers know this. I mean, pick your favorite food. Then eat five heaping plates of it.… Continue Reading
Conversations On An Instructional Gap
A Conversation In 2007, a then virtual-only colleague asked whether it was, “okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher?” NETS-T provides one standardized, big-picture perspective. Many others speak of new literacies unleashed by the reach of the Internet. A few… Continue Reading
There’s No Week Like EdWeek
Play along? Repeat the title in your head a few times. Did you get an odd desire to click your heels together? If so, it would be understandable. If you truly believe in the sentiment that “there’s no place like… Continue Reading
Online Learning Networks in Science – An Interview
In keeping with the concept of using this blog as not only a synthesis of what I think, but also of what I do, I add this post. Last week I recorded a telephone interview with the folks at natureEDUCATION… Continue Reading
Biology Educators Network Builds Partnership
The need arises A couple of years ago a few of my digital friends and I brought this space to life: The Synapse. A week later I wrote about it here. The site derives its origin directly from a frustrating… Continue Reading
Principals as Teachers Part II – Early feedback
Once again Yesterday in “Principals as Teachers” I pitched a general proposal that would encourage and empower principals to cross some artificial lines we have created in the business of public schooling. Sure, we could have allowed building principals all… Continue Reading
Principals as Teachers
Defining a title In my neck of the woods, we have a state & foundation-funded organization (Parents as Teachers) that supports parents in their quest to educate children during those crucial first three formative years. Far too much data suggests… Continue Reading
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Beginning with the end There… glad I got that out of the way. There ended the longest blogless period I’ve had in about three years. Not that I’ve ever been that prolific. In fact, I’m pretty satisfied if I get… Continue Reading