Here's a constant thread that's been running through many conversations I've had with educators over the past month Information Overload. Now hang on a moment... it's not what you think. It's not about teachers complaining that too many things are
It crept up on me, when all of a sudden I had an email from our Learning Technology Policy Director, encouraging and informing me about the release of the National Ed Tech Plan , and did I want to attend
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Cross posted on Always Learning Last week I was extremely fortunate to attend the ASB Unplugged Conference in Mumbai, India at the American School of Bombay, with my lovely colleagues, Chrissy Hellyer, Heather Vlach, Dana Watts and Jean Williams. Not
There is a lot of controversy right now over the firing of the entire faculty at Central Falls high school in Rhode Island. The school and students were low performing, so the superintendent didn't like the teachers not agreeing to some
Image via Wikipedia When talking about lifelong learning, I often reference Project Integration and how we need to get away from this model. I refer to project integration as what many others describe as integrating technology as a tool. This
image licensed under CC by Let Ideas Compete An Odyssey is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as 1 a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune 2
A couple things ran through my mind today as I flew into San Antonio for the 2010 ASCD conference. Both related to education.On the trip, I started reading 21st Century Skills Learning for Life in our Times by Bernie Trilling
Cross posted at ThumannResources.com Is the average high school student able to define social networking or give an example of it? I thought most would use Facebook as an example, but during a recent visit to a local high school,
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Is there any blog without a widget around on web? I don't think so. "Widgets" has become a common term in blogosphere. I love using different widgets on my blog though too many on a blog maybe confusing. Here is
A few days ago, while chatting with my friend, Ryan Bretag (http www.ryanbretag.com blog ), I was questioning him on how he was able to persuade his teachers, his staff, his co workers to follow him. I wanted to know....I
Being intentional about building community.
I saw a handout from a middle school teacher recently that had some really great information about searching on the Internet. It was given to the students to support the assignment of having the students research two different cultures and
Everyone in education knows that money is always a problem. We never have enough for our classrooms. But, there are ways around that. Free stuff means that you can allocate your limited funding to things you can't get free. There
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year ago, I remember reading about our educator friends who were
struggling with school budget devastation. In order to reach a
manageable budget number, positions were lost, class sizes grew,
supplies were trimmed, books were not ordered and as
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Cross posted on Welcome to NCS Tech photo credit jaroslavd Inspiration for this post arrived yesterday morning by way of a message on the bit.listserv.edtech USENET group entitled "Presentations for parents on Internet safety." Some background... The phrase "Eating
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We are living in hard times. Several states are asking local school districts to cut their budgets, sometimes in half. Teachers have to find innovative ways to keep their kids engaged and learning, while doing with less. Traditionally field trips
Cross Posted at The Edge of Tommorrow The term gets quite a bit of air time these days. I defy you to go to a conference and avoid hearing the word less than a dozen times. Go to a
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"oh this is going to be addictive"
So who says that bullet points are always bad? I'm referring, of course, to presentations. I think the humble bullet point has for too long been the scapegoat of dreadful presenters. Just because awful presenters use bullet points, it doesn't
If you have lingered for just a short while at either Plurk, Twitter, Blog Posts, or Magazine Articles, you will see that our peers in Ed Tech have very strong feelings and often have no problem verbalizing those beliefs. Whether