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I need your help.This ancient Luddite, who still uses a turntable and does not own a cell phone, not even a broken one, somehow managed to glom a grant. A technology grant.I am getting a set of notebooks for my classes, along with a fancy router--we're going to jump into...
We "Learn to live," Mr. President
"Through this plan we are setting an ambitious goal: All students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career – no matter who you are or where you come from."President Obama, March 13, 2010Mr. President, can we cut through the crap?I'm a retired pediatrician. A...
Location: W074 11, N40 48Daylight March 12: 11 hours, 47 minutesDaylight September 30: 11 hours, 48 minutes.St. Francis and the SowThe budstands for all things,even for those things that don't flower,for everything flowers from within, of self-blessing;though sometimes it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness,to put a hand on...
The back bay's warming up--the quahogs are feeding again.The sun's rays are no longer just glancing off the Earth around here--we're warming up. Algae grow, fusing carbon dioxide and water into sugars, bound by sunlight. A bed of clams lies just under Richardson Sound, a few of them tossed back...
RttT antithetical to public education
[W]hen we talk about “Race to the Top,” we’re talking about a principle that is antithetical to the fundamental idea of American education. The fundamental idea, which has been enshrined at least since the Brown decision of 1954, was equal educational opportunity. “Race to the Top” is not equal educational...
When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered· the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls· bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.Marcel Proust, The...
Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson
I’m in Milwaukee for SIGCSE this week. I love this conference most for the informal conversations that take place. having been coming to SIGCSE for at least 10 years now I have a lot of friends who I often see only once a year at this conference. We talk a...
Over the weekend for the second time in about three weeks a teacher asked my about creating arrays of controls in Visual basic .NET. Interestingly enough both teachers were interested in doing this to create a Jeopardy style game program. And why not? Clearly an array is the way to...
Interesting Links 8 March 2010
Well last week was another interesting week for me. I finished it off with a short trip to Houston TX for the annual HP Code Wars high school programming competition. The people at HP did an amazing job hosting some 600 student competitors on a Saturday morning. You have to...
10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
I have no idea where this came from originally but it showed up on the AP CS mailing list this week. On one level it is very funny especially if you know the Star Trek universe and the nature of Klingons. But on a deeper level I think it is...
Upcoming Microsoft Teacher Leader Training Events
Are you an educator responsible for providing technology training to colleagues? Do you frequently lead teachers with best practices on how to integrate technology in the classroom? Then this event is for you! The Microsoft Institute now offers workshops dedicated for teachers and teacher leaders. The project-based workshop curriculum...
Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers
Maybe you are the sort who likes their news to come on paper. Or perhaps you just like your news in regularly scheduled chunks. Perhaps you like someone to do gathering and editing for you. Or perhaps you are looking for an online news and sharing source for computer science...
Generation YES Blog
Doodle 4 Google contest extended
Google is giving everyone a little bit more time to enter the third annual Doodle 4 Google competition. Doodle 4 Google is a competition open to K-12 students in U.S. schools who are invited to create their own Google doodle inspired by the theme, “If I Could Do Anything, I Would...
Six Myths About Service Learning
From Principal Leadership magazine: Six Myths About Service Learning by Scott Richardson and Michael Josephson. Service learning is the Rodney Dangerfield of education. Students say that it’s an “annoying requirement.” Parents say, “My kid will learn more in the classroom than in the community.” Teachers say, “It won’t improve test scores.”...
NAEP 2014 Technology and Engineering Literacy Assessment
For the past year, I’ve been on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Technology Literacy Assessment planning committee. (See my post NAEP Technology Assessment 2012.) The first phase of writing the framework (which is where my committee contributed) is now complete. At the last meeting, we recommended to the...
Student-created video for NCCE closing keynote
Last week over 70 GenYES students from all over Washington were part of the tech crew at NCCE, the Northwest Council of Computer Educators state conference. Students from grades 7-12 helped with video and audio production, technical support for attendees, geocaching events, and support for speakers. (Blog post here: NCCE...
Edutopia – Students Teach Technology to Teachers
“When middle school students Alison and Nat confer with their teachers, it’s to talk about the lessons the students are preparing for student teachers as part of a new Generation www.Y program. The young people are part of a growing group in schools across the country who are sharing their...
The Youngest Speaker at TED Advocates “Kid’s Eye View”
During her time on the stage at TED, Adora advocated a sort of “Kid’s Rights” sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and be more interested in learning from kids to foster a more reciprocal relationship between age groups. She says that because kids tend to be...
Flux
“Pupils not heard in BSF process “ Futurelab survey says.
Pupils are not being engaged or listened to in the planning for schools for the future according to the draft results of a survey published by Futurelab. Dr Tim Rudd, Senior Researcher at Futurelab, who managed the research, says: “Although this was not a statistically representative sample the results suggest there...
Future Schools-Why wait for BSF?
“What can schools do now?” was the question posed by Specialist Schools and Academies Trust programme leader Paul Hynes at the event held in Millbank this week. The timing of the event was unnervingly apposite given the current “political football” status of the BSF programme in the build up to...
Whole Education is a new organisation working to share and promote a set of common beliefs that aim to make sure every child reaches their full potential, and has access to an education that fully equips them to be happy and successful in life and work....
From conference, to unconference, to conflab
If you could create the most exciting, inspiring and useful education conference, what would it involve? Who would be there and what would it be about?...
Futurelab is seeking KS3 and KS4 pupils to complete a short online questionnaire that explores their perceptions about learning spaces, education and new technologies in the future....
The question persists and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are......
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Web 2.0 in the Classsroom - A Daily Summary of News & Notable Items...
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K-12 Educational Technology: Web 2.0, Educational Networking, Free and Open Source Software, and the Future of Education....
Teachers Teaching Teachers
Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND “…making the case for the NWP - TTT191 - 03.10.10
Download Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND "...making the case for the NWP - TTT191 - 03.10.10 ACTION ALERT! (To learn more, please listen to this week’s podcast.) Those of us who are members of local Witing Projects are asking for your help to keep federal funds for the National Writing...
Download Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana: Paul Hankins and student talk about their Ning - TTT 189 - 02.24.10On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana. Our guests were one sites student managers, Tyler, along with their teacher,...
Download Texas in the house with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast on doing digital make-overs - TTT186 -02.10.10This podcast is another in a series of Teachers Teaching Teachers shows to feature the authors of a recent outcrop of books on new media and literacy (Copyright Clarity: 184, 135, The...
A snow day in NYC gives us a chance to do some collaborative planning - TTT188 - 02.26.10
Download A snow day in NYC gives us a chance to do some collaborative planning - TTT188 - 02.26.10Because of a rare snow day in New York City, four NYC Writing Project teachers used some of our “found time” to do some impromptu thinking together. Our students are using Youth...
Did Educon 2.2 Make Us Smarter? - TTT 185 - 02.03.10
Download Did Educon 2.2 Make Us Smarter? - TTT 185 - 02.03.10On this podcast a few of us who attended Educon 2.2 reflect on our learning there. Appropriately enough, we were guided in this reflective conversation by: Hannah, a student from The Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia her history teacher Diana Laufenberg their...
Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks Discuss Fair Use - TTT 184 - 01.27.10
Download Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks Discuss Fair Use - TTT 184 - 01.27.10Our friend and colleague, Chris Sloan, from the Wasatch Range Writing Project in Utah invited Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks to join us on this weeks Teachers Teaching Teachers. (By the way, if you would like to...
Dangerously Irrelevant
Here's another envisioning of the forms that traditional print publications are going to take as tablet eReaders and computers become more prevalent. This one is from Penguin Books and shows what some interactive experiences might look like for younger children. Previous installments in this series were: Yes, this is the......
The status quo no longer suffices: An open letter to the Ames (IA) School Board
The Ames (IA) Community School District – my kids’ district – is hiring both a new superintendent and a new high school principal for next year. Below is the letter I just sent the school board members. I thought some of you might be interested. Everything I do has a......
BlogBall10 - Edublogger fantasy baseball returns for Year 3! [registration due March 21]
It's spring training for Major League Baseball and that means it’s time for another season of edublogger fantasy baseball! Last year’s champions, Vinnie Vrotny and Rick Heitmeyer, have their trophies and hopefully will be back to defend their titles (we had enough participants for 2 leagues last year). I shall......
Why don't schools with the biggest challenges have access to the biggest talent?
Rethink Learning Now asks: Why don't schools with the biggest challenges have access to the biggest talent? Answer My answer: Because as educational systems we allow individual teacher preferences and/or union seniority systems to trump what’s best for kids. If the Number 1 school influence on students’ success is the......
TEDxASB and TEDxNYED: Getting YouTube channels into iTunes
Yesterday was the TEDxNYED event in New York City. Many of us watched the LiveStream online. Last week was the TEDxASB event in Mumbai, India. I had the pleasure of both attending and speaking. Both events had some great speakers (I’ll let you decide if I was one of them!).......
Notes from India: Pictures and Tweets from ASB Unplugged and Mumbai
For those of you who are interested, here is the Flickr photo set for ASB Unplugged, a February 1:1 laptop conference for international schools that was sponsored by the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. You may recognize a few edublogger faces like Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay, Doug Johnson,......
Once Upon A School
Our planAll student should solve basic elementary math . Period!(addition/subtraction/multipl/division/fraction) no excuses... Can it be done? ............68% of Detroit , Michigan, 4th graders can't solved 507-289 regrouping subtraction just recently. Is it possible to teach these kids? How? go to youtube... lionking4277.... and see me my videos on how...
#278 Toda la historia del colegio
Our planHay una tesis doctoral presentada por el profesor Luis Pumares, que estuvo los últimos años en el colegio,disponible en Internet (Google);pero la historia es mucho más que eso y me gustaría,como profesora-iniciadora de este centro en el que trabajé durante 18 años (ahora ya estoy retirada),que contactaran con ellos,para...
#277 The Shine Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Our planWhile working in a voluntary capacity, offering remedial support to second language learners at Observatory Junior School, Maurita Weissenberg, an experienced primary school remedial teacher, saw that the school would benefit greatly from a structured, early intervention, educational support programme. She recognised the following issues needed to be...
#276 Applying Hands-On Experience
Our planI wanted to increase the interest and knowledge of marine geology by creating a learning experience for students.What we didPreviously, marine geology was confined to the classroom I planned and implemented a marine field trip to the course. Specifically, I added a trip to an offshore island off...
Our planWith the curriculum in Washington DC so focused on basic instruction, we decided to think outside the box and bring chess instruction to an area middle school. Our hope was to use a game to get the students to use their minds in a way that diverged from their...
Our plan826 DC partnered with a senior English class at Wilson High School to create "radio" stories. The plan was to have the students learn to write for radio and to produce stories that could eventually be read on the air. We had a local National Public Radio reporter come...
Blue Skunk Blog
I never care if I am filmed so long as I never have to watch it. These TED talks are tougher to do than one might think, but here is mine from TEDxASB last month: I was in the company of some genuinely outstanding thinkers/presenters at TEDxASB. I was humbled to...
Where do you keep your valuables?
From "Google Now Covers All Apps With Advanced Backup," PC World, March 4, 2010. Google recently extended what it describes as highly advanced and sophisticated data backup and recovery to all components of its Apps communication and collaboration suite. The level of protection, both in terms of the amount of data preserved...
This lovely little parody came as a response to my entry yesterday on impermanance. Bob (no last name or e-mail address) has a gift... Techymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two shiny and powerless laptops Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk,...
Of Sophocles 123 plays, only seven have survived. The melting snow this weekend led to thoughts of the transience of life. This morning's walk showed shrinking drifts uncovering a winter's worth of detritus - beer cans, cigarette butts and disintegrating prophylactics (making me somewhat wistful for a misspent youth that seemed...
Guest post by Gary Hartzell: Naming our profession
As readers of the Blue Skunk know, I am great admirer of the work of Gary Hartzell. As a former principal and ed ad professor, he brings an outsider's objective perspective to the library profession, telling us sometimes, not what we may wish to hear, but what we need to...
Yesterday's libraries, tomorrow's libraries - 12 differences
I am working on a short recorded presentation for a school on "future" libraries. I am thinking this may be the format. Join in... 1. Yesterday's libraries were all about books. Tomorrow's libraries will be all about readers. 2. Yesterday's libraries were all about getting information. Tomorrow's libraries will be all...
Angela Maiers Educational Services
Mini-Lesson: Discovering Literacy Together
This video includes a few short conversations with individual students, a lesson plan which includes my favorite apples and oranges metaphor, and a quick debrief with teachers. Or find the video by clicking through to YouTube...
Chalk Talk Friday represents conversations and brilliance I've discovered traversing my way through the Blogosphere. From professional to personal development, these are the posts and links have in some way touched my head or my heart. Quite a few TEDx......
Failure is a Success in Learning
My friend and occasional roadmate, Vicki Davis wrote a wonderful piece recently about failure as part of learning in Fail Forward, Move Forward. A striking part of the post was a study by an art teacher in how students might......
Literacy in a Digital Age - ASCD 2010 Presentation with Ben Grey
Here's the deck from the presentation Ben Grey and I collaborated on at ASCD2010 yesterday, Literacy in a Digital Age: Ascd Engaging Literacy in a Digital Age View more presentations from Ben Grey. The deck includes video resources and our......
I'm still filling the shelves of my Twitter Resources Library, but here's the work in progress that I talked about during my "I'm on Twitter, Now What?" ASCD presentation this weekend. Sites, Tutorials & Articles Lists & Links Add-Ons &......
I'm on Twitter - Now What? ASCD 2010 Presentation
Here's the deck from yesterday's ASCD 2010 presentation, I'm on Twitter, Now What? Twitter Ascd Conference San Antonio View more presentations from angelamaiers. The acronym I use for Twitter is simple and, for me, used as a compass for why......
doug - off the record
Yesterday, I had a quick back and forth with @irasocol about innovation in education. He had made a comment about parents wishing to have the same type of education that they had without all of this new Web 2.0 innovation stuff thrown in. But, you know, we agreed that our...
Tom Brokaw Gander Newfoundland 9 11 – Part 1 of 3 on Vimeo A great documentary of what happened on Sept 11, 2001 when planes were redirected to Newfoundland Canada. Commentary by Tom Brokaw of NBC news. (tags: gander newfoundland 9_11) senduit | Share easily. Online free file sharing service (tags: filesharing senduit sharing tools...
Without a doubt, one of my favourite computer conferences to attend is the one put on my the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning organization, or MACUL. It’s held in the spring of the year and annually attracts a large number of educators. We’ve always joked about MACUL and...
Rocketboom Get your daily dose of internet culture (tags: internet culture) Use Twitter in PowerPoint | Poll Everywhere Your audience is tweeting How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment...
It’s been a long week and as I sit and unwind, I come across the Textorizer. I know that I get overly interested when I play with something over and over. This was the case here. The online version is at the link referred to previously and there’s a downloadable...
textorizer Textorizer is a program that allows you to make pictures formed with text. It is best described by the sample images below. Although there are many versions around, the only one that is continuing to supported is this one. (tags: tools graphics textorizer generator software design typography photography) BonzoBox – It's Your...
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Interactive Map: Where Public Colleges Face the Greatest Budget Stress
03-14-2010 * NOTE: Percentage of higher-education money from stimulus: FY09-10... ... ...
Audio: How Should Trustees Manage Conflicts of Interest?
03-14-2010 The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges recently released guidelines to... ... ...
A Professor Says His University Cares Little About Teaching
03-14-2010 Last October, Madhukar Vable said farewell to two teaching prizes that he had won a decade earlier. He packed the plaques in envelopes and shipped them back to the university and state offices that had awarded them. His packages included long letters about the condition of higher education. Too many colleges, Mr. Vable wrote,...
A New Testament Scholar Is Named to a Long-Lost Chair at Butler U.
03-14-2010 When Harry van der Linden, chair of the philosophy and religion department at Butler University, in Indianapolis, was browsing a registry of endowed funds last fall, he made a curious find: a chair in New Testament studies that had not been filled in over half a century. Immediately, James F. McGrath, an associate professor...
Where Life Earns Credit: 'Prior Learning' Gets a Fresh Assessment
03-14-2010 At first, James A. Nienow was skeptical of the idea. Why should instructors give students academic credit for something they had done outside a classroom? Mr. Nienow, a biology professor at Valdosta State University, in Georgia, teaches an introductory course that freshmen call "biology boot camp." Known as a tough grader, he likes to...
The Coen Brothers Find Their Dream Classroom at St. Olaf
03-14-2010 A classroom at St. Olaf College has a role in the latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen. The small Minnesota college had just what the filmmakers needed for A Serious Man: a 1960s-style lecture hall where their main character, a physics professor, could teach. St. Olaf's Science Center 282 fit the bill and,...
Learning is Change.
Question 72 of 365: What is the magic of a barcode?
Image via Wikipedia The barcode is back. While many are looking forward to Augmented Reality and to RFID chips as the way in which we will start tagging things and seeing everything as once big canvass for us to attach images, videos, and text; I believe that the barcode is a significantly...
Question 72 of 365: Who is special?
My first elementary school principal would tell us once a day (and expect us to yell it out with her) that “You are Special.” It was a kind of mantra for her, and I think she believed it too. She wanted us to believe it anyway. But, even when we...
Question 71 of 365: What is a better organizing force, passion or values?
Image via Wikipedia I have created my communities wrong. Or at least, I have done it while ignoring a huge element of what makes a great community stick together: its values. On the one hand, I have been running away as far and fast as possible from any kind of value-based...
Question 70 of 365: How far will serious take us?
Image via Wikipedia When I look at what goes viral, what memes consist of, or even what I happen to click on within my twitter stream; there is always an element of humor found within. Not all of them are laugh out loud funny, but in the way that they tickle...
Question 69 of 365: Why is action such a surprise?
I have had a number of conversations recently that have resulted in someone saying that they were surprised that things were getting done. They were surprised at action. While I was somewhat baffled by the reaction, it made me think about what the root of this surprise might be. Getting things...
Question 68 of 365: What does it mean to be a breadwinner?
Image via Wikipedia While I do not particularly like the designation or the baggage that goes along with it, being a breadwinner is something that is very important to me. I am not interested in being the sole breadwinner or someone who does only that, but there is most definitely a...
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ASCD Conference 2010 - The Prezi Updates - Final Installment
This is my final Prezi report on the San Antonio ASCD 2010 conference. hanks to ASCD for inviting me to be a guest blogger at the conference. They are great people and gracious hosts. I met so many wonderful educators at the conference. Thanks for all you do!...
ASCD Conference 2010 - Prezi Report 5
Here's my latest Prezi documenting Sunday afternoon at the 2010 ASCD conference in San Antonio. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to advance and navigate. Direct link to this Prezi ASCD 2010 on Prezi For all......
ASCD Conference 2010 - Prezi Report 4
Here's my latest Prezi documenting the 2010 ASCD conference in San Antonio. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to advance and navigate. Direct link to this Prezi ASCD 2010 - Sunday AM on Prezi For all......
ASCD Conference 2010 - Prezi Report 3
Here's my latest Prezi documenting the 2010 ASCD conference in San Antonio. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to advance and navigate. Direct link to this Prezi ASCD 2010 Saturday PM on Prezi For all my......
Using Prezi to Cover the ACSD Conference: Part 2
It's Saturday morning at the ASCD conference in San Antonio. I'm on my mid morning break and thought I post my next installment of my Prezi coverage. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to advance and......
ASCD Conference 2010: My Arrival - a Prezi
I arrived at the ASCD conference in San Antonio today. So much to plan for over the next few days. Thought I'd try to capture it in a Prezi. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to......
Recorded Books K-12 Blog
Tomorrow, March 2, is Read Across America day this year. Celebrated each year on the birthday of Dr. Seuss, the aim is to create lifelong readers by having every child in America read to. Teachers, parents, and volunteers take part every year to bring fun books to kids around the...
Among several nominations for the 2010 Audie® Awards—the audiobook industry’s equivalent of the Grammys—you’ll find an offering from The Modern Scholar (published by Recorded Books). A Way with Words IV: Understanding Poetry, written and narrated by Professor Michael D.C. Drout of Wheaton College, has been nominated in the Original Work...
Congratulations to the January blog contest winner, Kurt Johnson! If you haven’t yet, be sure to go back and read his comment, about a weekend where he and his son enjoyed Washington D.C. institution Ben’s Chili Bowl and got a civil rights lesson along with their half-smokes. We didn’t have our...
Katherine Paterson: “Read out loud!”
After reading the New York Times piece “New Envoy’s Old Advice for Children—Read More” this morning, I was glad to see that the newly named and soon-to-be-crowned National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Katherine Paterson encourages parents to read aloud to their children. Long-touted as a tool for reading readiness,...
Send us your audiobook tips and you could be featured!
First of all, don’t forget to enter our January contest to win a free audiobook! We’re currently hard at work on the 2010 Recorded Books K-12 catalog, and we love including stories and testimonials from our customers. If you use audiobooks in your classroom or school, send us a quick...
Katherine Paterson Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Hans Christian Andersen Medal and Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Paterson has been named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, replacing previous ambassador Jon Scieszka. Paterson has chosen “Read for Life” as her platform and will serve a two-year term as ambassador. Recorded Books is proud to offer 12...