2¢ Worth

I will be speaking at a state conference in April that will be held on the campus of a major university. The entire conference facility will have robust wireless access to the Internet, and the conference planners want to utilize the heck out of it.
A number of edublogerati have talked about how […]

There has been a long exchange on the TechLearning Blog page, that began with my Letter from the Principal post, apologizing for failing to prepare children for the 21st century. I posted a second blog on TechLearning yesterday, posing several essential questions behind education reform.
T&L Blogerati, Terry Freedman commented on that post asking

…so what […]

Last week, I posted, on the Technology & Learning Blog, a fictitious letter from a principal to the parents of his school’s students. A copy of the letter is attached below. The letter received a good bit of response, not only from readers, but also a follow-up letter from my friend and fellow […]

Beijing teacher and Thinking Stick author, Jeff Utecht, suggested an idea the other day that I have only just now discovered. What if we had Perpetual Beta Education?
First of all, the term beta is often used to describe a software product that is ready for use, but not completely finished in terms of […]

I’m currently at the AzTEA conference in Tucson. The people are as hospitable here as they were in Flagstaff. My message was well received, and we had a very interesting discussion as a breakout session. The frustrations are similar everywhere, and our visions are the same. We simply have to figure […]

With a few minutes left before rushing to the airport for a two-legged flight to Tucson, I started scanning through my aggregator. Interestingly ( or else I wouldn’t be blogging right now), I ran across postings from Christian Long (think:lab), and Chris Lehman (Practical Theory). They both talk about administrators (Christian’s wife and […]

Someone posted a request on the Class Blogmeister list yesterday, asking for readers to come and comment on her students’ bloggings. It’s a common request. It’s one of the reasons that you blog, to engage in conversation.
I frequently go in, read, and comment, but not nearly as much as I should, […]

I must keep pinching myself to see how far we’ve come. When I first started talking to teachers about e-mail and then the Internet in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the U.S. had an undeniable and unchallenged superiority in all things related to information and communication technology (with the possible exception of France’s […]

I woke up without anything to say this morning, and even less time. In an hour, I leave for an elementary school in eastern North Carolina, and hour and a half drive listening to a Greg Bear book.
But scanning through my comments, I found something pinned to yesterday’s entry, I’ve had Better Days. […]

I was just listening to the latest installment of NCQ Talk (ecstatic to hear you guys online again) when the term CourseCasting came up. I guess its one of those terms I should have been familiar with, and it was easy to conclude what it meant, but, as new words should, it got me […]