2¢ Worth

I had a great day, yesterday, at Kent Denver School, on the edge of the rolling plains of Denver, Colorado.  It was a beautiful campus that blended perfectly into the rural landscape.  The first thing I did was to moderate a conversation with parents about schooling, the future, video games, cyber safety, etc.  “Maybe I […]

Short blog — hopefully lots of conversation…
I’m on my way out again for a number of gigs due west of here (Raleigh).  Among them with be an information ethcis summit I’ll be working with in San Francisco, sponsored by CTAP and Yahoo.
When I am talking about contemporary literacy to audiences, nothing causes so many heads […]

Lately, I have had a number of opportunities to speak to education leaders: superintendents, school board members, and yesterday, to district curriculum and technology leaders, mostly from Long Island, New York.  It was the 2020 Vision Now Summit, held in Melville, NY.  The audience was predominantly district superintendents, assistant superintendents, and some directors of technology. […]

DHarter, one of the educators participating in the K12 Online Preconference chat, said
A kid the other day said to me that he hates the term Web 2.0…makes sense, it’s 1.0 to him!

I’ve never considered that. Not only have these children always know a world with the web, but they’ve always been able to play with […]

I finished going through the transcript for the chat that took place during the first 48 hours of the 2007 K12 Online Conference, while flying from Minnesota to JFK yesterday.  I have to say, first off, that reviewing and commenting on chat was helpful for me.  The conversation emerged several times, about the boundaries that […]

Ken Kay just sent me a blurb from a Partnership for 21st Century Skills news release, describing a recent poll of U.S. Voters.  Here’s part of what he sent!
WASHINGTON, DC – Oct. 10, 2007 – A new, nationwide poll of registered voters reveals that Americans are deeply concerned that the United States is not preparing […]

For the last few days, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading through the chat that was generated parallel to the K12 Online Conference opening presentation.  I’m inserting my 2¢ worth where I can, and am posting the transcript as a wiki for you to read and insert — continue the conversation.
One thing that […]

I’m writing, again today, at the risk of offending some very fine people — and that is certainly not my intent.  But I am concerned enough to risk it.  I am in, what appears to be northeastern Wisconsin.  I drove through about an hour and a half of it yesterday on my way to my […]

I’m in Moose Lick, Wisconsin — where they don’t have Internet.  It’s actually not Moose Lick, and it’s probably only this hotel that doesn’t have Internet.  When I checked in yesterday afternoon, and asked about it, the young man said that it was wireless.  After working for about an hour on the chat transcript from […]

I’ve switched off the chat for the K12 Online Conference opening presentation.  I promised it would be up for 24 to 48 hours.  Right now, I’m going through the chat, deleting out what seems extraneous, and adding in my own comments.  This will all be placed on a wiki page for all to see very […]