2¢ Worth

Stephen Downes, an information philosopher (my characterization) and blogger, whom I respect greatly, has seen fit to criticize my recent entry, where I featured an Information Code of Ethics for teachers and students. I want to thank this Canadian academic for all of his criticisms and enormous contributions. Questioning blogs and even disagreeing […]

Open source guru, Steve Hargadon, hosted a podcast interview yesterday with Vicky Davis, from Westwood Schools in Georgia and Adam Frey, of Wikispaces. The topic was wikis in education, and a case was made that although blogs are currently more popular, wikis also have a place as a transformative educational experience.
In his blog post, […]

I started, yesterday, in Toronto, with a five minute shuttle ride to the airport. Working my way through customs reminded me of a story that Robert Williams, one of my English teachers at Gaston College told, about when he was in the army and stationed in Berlin. He said that the Soviet soldiers […]

It’s 6:06 AM on August 25, 2006, and today, we only have eight planets orbiting the Solar System. How do we know. We go to Wikipedia, and look up Solar System. There it says:
Major features of the solar system (not to scale). Featuring the Sun, eight planets, asteroid belt, a trans-Neptunian object […]

Miguel Guhlin hosted a podcast last night about best practices in classroom blogging. The participants were:

Heather Burleson, 7th-8th grade in East Texas
John Blake, North Carolina, blogging since Blogmeister beta!
Kathy Cassidy, Canada
Vicki Davis, CoolCat Teacher
Miguel Guhlin, San Antonio, TX
Sharon Peters, Montréal, Canada
Kyle Stevens, Dallas, TX
Jennifer Wagner

You can read to blog, Sharing Blogging Best Practices and […]

I’m sitting in the Toronto Airport, on my way to La Guardia, where I’ll rent a car and drive down to Deleware. I can’t believe I’m going to be driving in New York City. Scared to death.
I thought I would take a few minutes and explore some of the comments that were posted […]

We have covered a LOT of material during the past two day, here in Collingwood, Ontario. What have we discussed — what have you learned — that you especiallly feel will be of benefit to you staff, when I return the end of next month?

Will Richardson included on one of yesterday’s blog postings, quotes from two students, who were blogging in a summer class being taught by beginning edublogger, Pat Aroune. I thought that both quotes were especially telling about education and the potential impact that blogging can have as a learning technology. It’s giving voice to […]

This was originally posted on the Technology & Learning blog page earlier this week.
School starts soon. For some, classrooms are already filled with curious, eager to learn, and savvy millennials, who, while they pay attention to you, are skillfully texting their friends with cell phones under their desks — typing with one hand.
I have […]

If I were to have an opportunity to speak at some national association of book publishers in the near future, what should I say to them. What does the publishing industry need to be thinking and doing, in order to remain a vibrant part of the information industry?
What are your 2¢?

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