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Turn It In - Lesson Plan Tracking
A few years ago (quite a few), I noticed school districts were spending LOTS of money--in fact, I received an email last week offering a demo--buying web-based systems that allowed teachers to post their lesson plans. It boils down to accountability from the principal perspective, another indicator or metric to...
Over the last 2 years, I've been trying to get a better handle on using Moodle. One way that was helpful was to use Twitter and "throw questions" up into the air. Another way was to scour the Moodle.org forums. To some degree, those approaches worked. But when I chatted...
DiigoNotes - The New Writing Pedagogy
The New Writing Pedagogy The New Writing...
DiigoNotes - Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011 - Yahoo! News
This has to be one of the many reasons Microsoft has been chastised for the games it plays.... Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011 - Yahoo! News ...
DiigoNotes - The Digital Writing Workshop - Part 2
Considering that Troy Hicks not only left me out of his book (smile), but then had the temerity to not even send me a review copy (sniff...tears rolling down my cheek), I'm continuing my expose of the great ideas he has shared in it and that I want to remember...
DiigoNotes - The Digital Writing Workshop
Image Source: http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02674.aspx Update: There's a Part 2 to this blog entry. The following are my notes on Troy Hicks' The Digital Writing Workshop, an engaging book about revamping the writing workshop with digital tools. Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts about revamping the Writing Workshop but, obviously, I had not seen...
The Jose Vilson: The Blog
Short Notes: Whereupon We Speak Our Truths and the Issue of Torii Hunter
A few notes: A great example of what happens when we try to control every little part of a staff’s speech in order to make them sound like they’re “normal.” [Vocalo] Google buys into Pi Day. [Mashable] An ed-techy’s case for pedagogy … in tech. [Box of Tricks] You ever wonder what Twitter would...
It’s What I Like About You (A Meme For Schools)
In my personal journey for growth, I’ve found that the dearth of positivity amongst involved adults can turn any school, well-meaning or otherwise, into a dumping ground of negative soot. In such an environment, it only makes sense that kids suffer. While I don’t participate in too much negative banter...
Excellence Is My Presence, Never Tense, Never Hesitant
As we commemorate the passing of Christopher “Biggie” Wallace 13 years ago, we must also remember a big reason we consider him one of the greatest rappers of all time: his delivery. It wasn’t so much the diversity of flows and rhythms within rhymes and from song to song; it...
Last week, the whole world found out that Guru a.k.a. Keith Elam of the world-renown hip-hop duo Gang Starr had (ostensibly) died of a recent heart attack he suffered the day before. Entertainment bloggers reported it. Wikipedia reported it. Celebrities who are usually in the know said it. Then, I...
Short Notes: 14 Things I Learned from #TEDxNYED 2010
This past Saturday, I had the fortune of attending the TEDxNYED conference, an independently run conference based on the TED conferences where they speak on an idea for a good 18-20 minutes about whatever topic they like. While some critics have come out in full force against the latest TED conference,...
The Question Is: Are You Part of the Conspiracy?
Reading through the plethora of feedback given not only to this blog, but the rest of the blogs out there, I noticed a big part of the Teach for America event missing in all of our posts. For the purposes of this post, I’m glad we did since I’ve mulled...
Educational Discourse
Well, I’ve submitted my proposal for the upcoming iT Summit in Saskatoon in May. I’m going to do a presentation on using different tools to help teachers and staff to communicate and organize. I’m planning to look at using wikis, Evernote, google docs, google calendar, google reader, diigo and maybe...
Tag – you remember that game from youth? The one that had as many variations as the number of places it was played. Well, tagging, a way to identify different information online, is kind of the same. When I save something in my online bookmarks or I add information to...
Online Bookmarking – Not an Option
As educators who use technology know, there are too many sites out there to visit and go through by oneself. We don’t have the time to do that plus do all the other things that need to get done. That’s why using an online bookmarking tool has become a must...
Evernote – a multi-use online/desktop tool
As an administrator there are so many things that come across my desk during the day that I often have had trouble remembering what I needed to do right now, what could be put on hold and what was something that, when I had more time, I could work on....
Using a Wiki to share information
As an administrator, one of the big things that I have to work very hard at is sharing information among the different staff. Because so many different things come across my path during the day, it’s sometimes hard to get the information dispersed to different staff members. One method of...
It’s the New Year and with it comes the usual resolutions that many people make. Like most, I’ve sat down and put together a list of things that I have resolved that need to improve or change in this upcoming year. For the most part, my goal is to change...
A Difference
... was the title of the Keynote address I gave to 500+ educators at this year's B.Y.T.E. conference. The sense I had of the audience was that many of the ideas I talked about here were new to them. A quick survey of the room while giving the talk revealed...
"Infotention" or scraping the cream off the top of what you want to know
How do you deploy your attention? Infotention: “Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably. Knowing how to put...
Always Beta 03: textbooks Learning Platforms
If you missed it: part 1, part 2. In this third part of my interview with Carly Shuler we talk about reimagining digital textbooks as learning platforms. 11 min 25 sec Download (10 Mb) I haven't done much digging in this space until recently. If it interests you here are some other...
Always Beta 02: (mobile) Learning Beyond Time & Space
If you missed it: part 1. In this second part of my interview with Carly Shuler we continue the discussion of the state of technology in Canadian classrooms and find ourselves talking about Mobile Learning; a topic close to both of our hearts. When I talk about the shift of learning...
Always Beta 01: The Future of the Textbook ... we need a new metaphor
FBI Classroom by flickr user billerickson Last week I was interviewed by Carly Shuler. We talked about many things. Mainly she wanted to talk about the future of the textbook in the digital age from the perspective of textbook publishers. The interview was about 50 minutes long so I've broken it down...
You can't be a change agent if you're an expert ...
Well, you can, but it's tough.When you're on the early part of the learning curve others look at you and say:"Hey, it's Darren. If he can do I can do it."Once you hit a certain level of competence or expertise they same people look at you and say: "Hey, it's...
Learning In a Flat World
My colleagues at the Center for Teaching Excellence, Jeff Nugent and Zach Goodell, have been co-teaching a graduate course this semester here at VCU. Teaching, Learning and Technology in Higher Education (GRAD-602) is designed to provide students in the Preparing Future Faculty Program with an introduction to contemporary instructional...
I had the opportunity to attend the virtual ELI Spring Focus Session today on Mobile Learning 2.0. As the program noted: “Although mobile learning has different meanings for different communities, we know that learning is deepened and enriched when students have options for their learning for multiple paths through ...
Jim Groom pushes the envelope all the time, which is why we love him! The person who coined the phrase “edupunk” is back as Rorschach from the Watchmen with a warning for “so-called professors” – you cannot, as Jon Mott suggested at ELI, have corporate learning management systems like Blackboard...
CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – Making the Transition to Online Teaching
Last December, I had the opportunity to participate in a podcast in the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence’s Teaching and Learning podcast series with Dr. Lynda Gillespie, Director of Technology for Chesterfield County Public Schools and adjunct professor for the VCU School of Education. The original podcast was posted here,...
Web Conferencing as Wireless Projection
It has been a while since I blogged, partly due to semester start-up and partly due to spending a lot of time in Twitter and Facebook. However, yesterday we did something rather neat that takes more than 140 characters to share. There has been a lot of buzz this week about...
As a final assignment in the online course I team-taught with Lynda Gillespie, we had our students reflect on the journey they took over the 14 weeks of class. Our course is Educational Technology for School Leaders, a graduate course in the Ed Leadership masters at VCU. We were fortunate...
Self Made Scholar
Peer-to-Peer University Offers First Session of Free Online Classes
Want to take a quality online class from an experienced adviser without paying a dime? The pilot session of Peer-to-Peer University begins this September. Although no formal credit is offered, Peer-to-Peer University courses look like a promising resource for lifelong learners. They combine freely available opencourseware with more personalized instruction, giving...
The Ultimate Self-Education Reading List
A Bibliography for Lifelong Learning Enthusiasts If you want to know more about self-education, your best bet is to start reading. Over the years, I’ve kept a list the best self-education books and blogs. Now I’m sharing them in the hopes that you’ll find something new and maybe add a suggestion...
Free Self-Ed eBook: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
When James Bach was a young teen, he dropped out of high school to learn on his own. Teachers said that he’d end up pumping gas for a living. But, instead, he studied technology and took a position as the youngest group manager at Apple Computer when he was only...
Adventures in Unschooling: Interview with Blake Boles
Unschooling advocate Blake Boles is dedicated to helping teens learn on their own. He’s worked at Grace Llywellyn’s famed Not-Back-to-School camp, cycled through the Argentinian countryside with a group of unschoolers, and planned unconventional adventures for young people who choose to learn on their own. Blake’s first book, College Without High...
5 Minds for the Future: Cultivating Thinking Skills
“…We must immediately expand our vision beyond standard educational institutions. In our cultures of today – and of tomorrow – parents, peers, and media play roles at least as significant as do authorized teachers and formal schools…if any cliché of recent years ring true, it is the acknowledgment that learning...
Steve Jobs says that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made. Why? Because after quitting school he was able to sit in on courses that actually helped him learn. He’d walk into whatever class he wanted and just blend in with the crowd. “The minute...
Swift Kick Central
Kansas State University's "Students Helping Students" campaign has the potential to be a national theme for peer-to-peer learning. For those who've had us on campus working with your student leaders, you should recognize the Blender Events and Flash Mobs throughout......
What If We DO Succeed in Increasing Student Engagement?
Over the weekend, I was talking with a group of students and advisors from Kutztown University about student engagement. In Swift Kick, we use dance floors to describe how student leaders are the ones in the center of the dance......
7 Steps to Awesome: The Tech of a Leadership Conference
I promised the good student affairs folk of the Penn State system that I would write up a draft outline of a tech plan for a state wide student leadership event. I delayed a bit, so that we could finish......
The Value of Integrating Social Media into Education
Dean Long, of LAUS, only needs two minutes to perfectly explain how every educator should be thinking about social media. And if your life is too busy for a two minute interlude, here are the highlights: Use SM (Social Media)......
Private Communities and Engagement - The 90-9-1 Rule
Online community ninja, Jakob Nielsen, is one of the original brains behind the 90-9-1 rule. Stated simply, the rule goes... In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1%......
Webinar - Leveraging Social Media for Student Engagement
This Wednesday, Dec 16th, from 3:00-4:15pm EST, we're partnering with The Student Affairs Blog to host our third webinar in an ongoing effort to provide value to the community on relevant topics. WEBINAR OVERVIEW Title: Leveraging Social Media for Student......
Drape's Takes
I'm so thankful to be in a profession that actually matters!
In fact, I'm not sure how other - normal - people do it. I'm grateful to be in IT and know that the things that I do on a daily basis affect kids and the kind of learning they're able to experience. I'm grateful to be able to help teachers. Teachers...
Might educhatroulette legitimately serve as a viable tool in our PD arsenal?
Wikipedia: Chatroulette is a website which pairs random strangers for webcam based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online stranger chat (video and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat and initiate another random connection... The site was...
I don't think blocking networked learning in our schools is an option. #ut-tcc
Today I heard far too many IT Directors from within our state brag about how locked down their school networks are. What follows is a portion of my response: Because there is so much learning occuring outside our schools with networked technologies, what can we - as institutions of...
Simply Stated: HB292 Is Unconstitutional
Dave Doty (audio here), on HB292, a newly proposed Utah bill that aims to "equalize" funds between Canyons and Jordan school districts by making Canyons hand over an additional $15 million:To run a bill to undo the arbitration ruling is unconscionable. We have a legal process, let's respect it.Personally,...
Dissertation Topic Change(?): The Creation of the Canyons School District
Several months later, and I'm ready to shift dissertation gears back in to high, but have felt - for some time now - that a change in topic is most likely imminent.It's not that I've lost interest in the the topic of open professional development, but rather that because the...
What is the purpose of attending conferences?
And can that purpose be realized in other - perhaps better - ways?Image source: Flickr user Ben Shepherd. ...
Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools
National Association Director Marks onBoarding School’s 500th Post
Editor’s Note: For our 500th blog post, we invited friend and Independent Educational Consultants Association, Executive Director, Mark Sklarow to comment and reflect on onBoarding Schools’ contributions to families and the larger boarding school community. Many thanks, Mark, for the kind words. For those who live, eat and breathe boarding...
10,000 Hours to Greatness: Unique Boarding School Programs Teach Every Student Skills for the Future
It has been argued that in order to excel at something or become an expert in a particular discipline, it takes 10,000 hours of work and practice. That is no doubt a great deal of time, which at 2 hours per day would take 13 years to reach. But for...
Prep School Admission & Financial Aid Decisions Arrive in the Next Few Days
In prep school admission and financial aid, it’s good to be ready for anything. With first round admission and financial aid letters due to arrive to families in the next few days, it’s time think about perspectives, plans, and responses depending on the offers you receive from schools. It’s always best to...
Fountain Valley School Builds Global Perspectives into Curriculum
Fountain Valley School recently affirmed and expanded the school’s commitment to diversity and global experiences through the creation of the Global Scholar Diploma Program (GSD). Program Chair, Dr. Susan Carrese describes the program this way: “Globalization is a 21st century reality…At FVS we believe it is essential to embrace the world beyond...
A Laugh Out Loud Olympic Parody
Don’t miss the two part parody “Ribbon: The Thin Red Line Pts 1 & 2″ done by Pete Hodgin, Kents Hill School history teacher. These videos are Saturday Night Live worthy. Hodgin hits all the right notes and skewers the seriousness with which some of the more odd sports are presented and...
Private School A Special Opportunity- Not A Signifier of Social Status
Peter Baron of AdmissionsQuest forwarded an e-mail to me today from a woman wondering how open her children should be with their peers about their prep school applications and asking whether I thought the parents academic credentials carried any weight in the admissions process. The question of how open to be...
NSBA BoardBuzz
The first public draft of core standards for K-12 education was released this week by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The standards, both welcomed and panned by critics, are intended to provide a consistent framework to prepare students...
Social media is everywhere these days. With more and more people joining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites, and the pros and cons of social networking being debated constantly, we can all agree that our communication methods have changed drastically in recent years. Controversy surrounds the role social media can and...
Civil rights, Duncan, and the 45th anniversary of Selma
Today, following the 45th anniversary of the march in Selma, AL (AKA “Bloody Sunday”), Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, was in Selma giving a speech refocusing attention on the U.S. Department of Education’s efforts to enforce civil rights matters. As most BoardBuzz readers know, “Education is a Civil Right,” is a phrase that has been endorsed by...
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
In her recent TED talk, Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, tells us how her mind works. She gives an overview of how people on the autism spectrum think and makes the case that the world needs those people: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds...
No make or break factor in RTTT
The Race is definitely on…and the finalists are: CO, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, MA, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, and DC. At first glance, there seems to be no common patterns among these states for the phase I competition — about half of them are right-to-work states;...
Children benefit from physical activity programs at school
A study in the British Medical Journal shows that a structured school physical activity program can improve a child’s fitness and decrease body fat. Researchers in Switzerland studied 540 seven and 11-year-olds in 15 schools over a nine month period that were randomly selected. Students underwent a physical activity program designed by experts...
Free Technology for Teachers
Smarthistory - A Multimedia Art History Book
Smarthistory is a free online alternative to expensive art history textbooks. Smarthistory was developed by art history professors Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Smarthistory features more than just images of notable works of art. Videos lessons, VoiceThread lessons, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history...
Has Anyone Seen a Missing Hour of Sleep?
Last night most of us in the US moved our clocks forward by one hour thereby foregoing an hour of sleep. Why did we do this? Watch the following video from the CBS News Fast Draw team to find out.Applications for EducationI've posted this video a couple of times over...
Lifeyo - Quick and Easy Website Creation
Lifeyo is a free service for creating great-looking websites and blogs. It takes less than a minute to create your new website with Lifeyo. To get started just enter a title for your site, pick a design template, and create an account by entering your email address. All of Lifeyo's...
Harvest of History - Where Does Food Come From?
Harvest of History is a website produced by the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York (also the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame). Harvest of History is designed to help students and teachers explore the origins and development of modern farming practices. The basis for Harvest of History is...
The Week in Review - Most Popular Items
It's Saturday morning in Maine and as I do every week I've put together a list of the most popular posts of the week. Next week I'll be traveling to Bow Island, Alberta to give a series of presentations at the Teacher 2 Teacher conference. Some of the other presenters...
Shelly Terrell, who recently guest posted on this blog, produced a video this week about the purposes and benefits of developing a personal learning network (PLN). About thirty members of Shelly's PLN appear in the video. If you're looking for a way to show your colleagues why you've developed an...
AASA School Business SmartBrief
S.D. may pull the plug on funds for school Internet, distance learning
South Dakota schools are facing cuts to technology funding as state legislators consider a plan to eliminate aid for basic In -More- ...
Virginia lawmakers bench student-athletes with head injuries
Virginia lawmakers approved a bill requiring school officials to prevent student-athletes suffering from head injuries from r -More- ...
Texas district offers students standardized e-mail accounts
Schools in Mesquite, Texas, are providing students with district-based e-mail accounts to help facilitate communication betwe -More- ...
Hawaii budget plan would cut $70 million in aid to schools
Hawaii's state House of Representatives approved $70 million in cuts to K-12 schools, including $18.4 million shaved by creat -More- ...
Illinois districts proceed with worst-case budget plans
It could take months for state legislators to resolve a $13 billion budget deficit, but school districts across Illinois must -More- ...
AASA and ISBW Executive Leadership Series
Three great workshops to create organizational change and six convenient dates to choose. -More- ...
Ask-Dr-Kirk
Dear Dr. Kirk: How To Handle Unhappy Students?
Dear Dr. Kirk: I had a self-appointed student representative inform me that students in my Business Communication course were unhappy with their grades and the fact that I returned homework without going over it and telling them what they did......
Blogs As A Knowledge Management Tool In The Classroom
For those of you who are interested in using blogs in the classroom, here's a paper I recently presented in Dallas at the Southwest Academy of Management meeting. My co-author, Timothy Johnson, has included a rubric for grading blogs. Download......
I'm flying to Dallas today to talk about teaching at the Southwest Academy of Management Doctoral Student Consortium. One of the participants will get a free copy of my book, Taking Back the Classroom: Tips for the College Professor on......
An 18-Minute A Day Plan To Manage Your Time
Does this sound familiar? Peter Bregman, author and CEO, writes: “Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned......
Nathan Grimm just shared this great list of resources on how to handle plagiarism in the classroom including sample policies, a list of online tutorials to help students understand what plagiarism is, and tips for discouraging plagiarism. As he notes:......
How Has Education Changed In The 21st Century?
Dan Brown (former student at University of Nebraska) gives a brief history of information and what education really is. Very thought provoking for all of us who teach! Thanks to Professor Alec Couros for bringing this to my attention via......
International Higher Education Consulting Blog™
Video of the Week - Fulbright Scholar Discusses making of her documentary “Which Way Home”
n this video, filmmaker and 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholar Rebecca Cammisa discusses how the Fulbright helped her complete her 2010 Oscar nominated documentary “Which Way Home”.You can learn more about “Which Way Home” and order your own copy at http://www.whichwayhome.net/...
I want to highlight a new book by Lisa Childress that I think many IHEC Blog readers may be interested in checking out. Published in 2010 by Peter Lang Publishers, The Twenty-first Century University: Developing Faculty Engagement in Internationalization "identifies what successful institutions have done to overcome endogenous challenges and...
Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE®) now offers online training, E-Learning!
Back in the fall of 2000 the Office of International Affairs at the University of Chicago took a chance and hired me as an Assistant Director. I was immediately thrust into one of my primary roles as the Fulbright Program Adviser for the U.S. Student Program and three weeks after...
Two New Publications by The Forum on Education Abroad
The Forum on Education Abroad has made available two new publications for download in their Standards Toolbox. The two new publications are:Alignment and Accountability in Education Abroad: A Handbook for the Effective Design and Implementation of Qualitative Assessment Based on Student Evaluations (2010) was developed and written by Lilli Engle...
The other night I figured out how to add a PDF tab on IHEC Blog's Facebook page (however, can't remember how I did it). What's nice about this feature (in addition to being able to add docments in PDF format to my Facebook page) is that you can get code...
I was alerted to the following Request for Grant Proposals (RFPG) from the March 5, 2010 HEI e-News by Education USA. This “One-time Competitive Grants Program – Competition A –Academic Programs” includes a component on “Capacity Building for Undergraduate Study Abroad.” I have generously copied and pasted the relevant information...
dy/dan
Here is one of my private assumptions about education innovation that could use some public criticism: If [x] is going to change teaching practice at scale, then [x] needs to be easy, fun, and free for both the teacher and her students. [x] needs to be all three of those things...
I'm obliged to David Bill, et al., for their meticulous planning and execution, for sponsoring my first trip to New York (where I also got to meet up with my twin sister in her East Village environs), and for the opportunity to meet a bunch of cool educators I had...
I'm taking my first trip to New York City today and speaking at TEDxNYED tomorrow. Rumor has it they'll feature a live feed on the website and the schedule indicates I'll be speaking somewhere around 17h00 EST, if you're interested. Some of these other people might have something to say...
Won A Battle. Still Losing The War.
Kyle, re OK Go's latest: "Somebody has too much time on their hands." Laronn: "Shut up, Kyle. What do you do? You go home and play Counter-Strike all day."...
Highly Recommended: Think Thank Thunk
Shawn Cornally: So the question I ask myself before I give any calculus lesson is: “Why on Earth would anyone actually go through the trouble of doing it this way?” There really is a rich set of useful problems that can only be solved using differential calculus, so why not present...
Joe Henderson: Dan, I’m totally with you on this line of thinking but only up until a point. I’d add a further layer to your line of questioning: who cares? Who cares how fast you can fill it up? Ultimately, the motivation to learn needs to be intrinsic from the...
The Core Knowledge Blog
In The Death and Life of the Great American School System, as in her previous work, Diane Ravitch takes apart many education fads and clichés, and explains the changes in her views on testing, choice, and accountability. Now a cliche has arisen in the media about Ravitch herself: the assertion...
Diane Ravitch’s new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, has tongues wagging from one end of the edusphere to the other. The New York Times’ Sam Dillon weighs in with a profile of Ravitch, which gives play to the overhyped “I was blind but now...
Perhaps it was Take Your Child to Work Day at JFK International Airport. Or maybe Project Based Learning: Extreme Edition?...
Diane Ravitch: A Prophet Without Honor
Last summer I had the great privilege of reading Diane Ravitch’s new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System in draft form. It’s a splendid book and a must-read for anyone who cares about our schools and our education policy. I have been eagerly anticipating the release of...
The Common Standards Mousetrap
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. He did not say “states will not be considered for federal dollars for rodent extermination that have not pledged to follow common state standards for mousetraps.” Will the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) represent a better...
Suggesting that great schooling is all about teachers is like suggesting that great restaurants are all about waiters. If the food is lousy, the service doesn’t matter. And make no mistake, the food is lousy. We continue to put thin, tasteless gruel on the menu, and blame the waiters when the customers leave...
U.S. News - Education
You're In! And Here's a Free T-Shirt
Colleges are trying hard to woo accepted students with goodies and flashy video E-mails....
Undie Run at UCLA Could Make a Comeback
It’s a stress-relieving sprint—in underwear—that students love and administrators hate....
Kansas Student President Proposes Cutting Cash for Student Paper
In an effort to save money, Kansas’s student government looks at the student newspaper....
Higher Education Falls Short in Efforts to Become More Accountable
Think tank scholars say efforts by colleges and universities to become accountable are flawed....
Here are 13 types of college students that professors would love to avoid....
Syracuse Student Redefines Dorm Comfort
Entrepreneurial instincts help student invent more comfortable dorm chairs....
Science teacher
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...