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Here's something if you have a 60- to 90-minute block of time with educators... 100% Proficiency on Old Skills? A Candid Conversation About the Demands of NCLB and Preparing Students […]
Listen to this post! There are some great conversations going on right now about Marc Prensky's article, Engage Me or Enrage Me. One is at Dennis Fermoyle's blog; the other […]
Listen to this post! Dear Kelly, as usual, your recent post is deeply thoughtful. So is your comment to my previous post. That said, I don't feel like you've quite […]
Listen to this post! I had the pleasure of spending last Friday morning with the Minneapolis Public Schools Technology Planning Steering Committee. Coleen Kosloski, Director of Information Technology Services, gave […]
I think a lot of folks have been doing some great blogging, so I'm not quite sure what I did to deserve this, but thank you, Christian and Chris. Also, […]
Listen to this post! What happened to Ed-Tech Insider? Tom seems to be blogging faithfully but no one else seems to have posted in months? I hope it's not dying […]
Did You Know? (version 1 and/or version 2) has now been seen by over 10 million people online. This is the post that went viral in February 2007. In November […]
Listen to this post! To date we've had 132 education bloggers submit responses for our education blogosphere survey. If you haven't yet participated and would like to avoid being labeled […]
Listen to this post! Every week day I receive the ASCD SmartBrief in my e-mail inbox. Usually it's an excellent overview of some key stories that are happening in K-12 […]
Listen to this post! A couple of days ago Network World had a story on the latest generation of GPS technologies used to track schoolbuses. The Everyday Wireless system that […]
Listen to this post! The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story on CASTLE's Principal Blogging Project today: http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938355.html http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938358.html Read it while it's hot off the press. I think Star […]
Listen to this post! As promised, here are the results of the Dangerously Irrelevant 2007 Education Blogosphere Survey... I made a short Flash video describing the general findings (or you […]
Listen to this post! Here are a couple of recent (and great) posts from Seth Godin: On becoming the (January 15) We tried everything (January 12) How is your organization […]
Listen to this post! I rarely write about technology tools here, but I ran across two web tools recently that I think may be useful for bloggers... Cite Bite. Input […]
Listen to this post! Dan Meyer is a dynamic young math teacher for the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. He totally gets it when it comes to assessment. Here […]
Listen to this post! Pete Reilly's excellent post should be required reading for school administrators worried about online safety issues. I've blogged about this issue before, notably here and here. […]
Listen to this post! Thanks to Seth Godin's blog , today I found this very cool resource for teachers and students looking for different visual ways to represent information: A […]
Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]
Listen to this post! Over the past couple of days, David Warlick has posted several times about the decreasing need for students to memorize discrete, unconnected factual bits of academic […]
Listen to this post! This semester I taught the College's School and Society class to our preservice teachers. This foundations course acquaints students with the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political […]