Historical Archives
So, I’m going to wade in here, where I’m not wanted, to talk about the article by Mark Taylor, in the New York Times. I liked the article. I thought it made some really good points. But around the blogosphere, there’ve been some misgivings, not unwarranted misgivings, but misgivings. Not unsurprisingly, Marc Bousquet is concerned…
Education week points to this Washington Post article by an assistant principal who was charged with child pornography because of his investigation of a sexting incident. My problem with the sexting incidents is that they’re being framed as digital safety problems. That may be true in some cases, but is the receipt of a nude…
Last week and this week, my kids are taking the state tests. My son had 4 days of testing this week, while my daughter had 3 last week and has 3 more this week. That’s a lot of time for testing. And they’ve both said that, in the weeks leading up to the tests, the…
Laura at 11D and Tim at Easily Distracted both posted about the more down-to-earth knowledge they feel young people (and we, really) should have. The comments at both posts also add a lot of ideas to the conversation. I’ve been reading Sarah Vowell’s Wordy Shipmates and she says she’s urban and she really doesn’t want…
Edupunk: Open Source Education ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes Stephen links to the audio for the SXSW panel on Edupunk with Stephen, Jim Groom, Barbara Ganley and Gardner Campbell. It’s a really fascinating conversation that explores the role of higher education institutions in the future, the differences between institutional vs. personal learning, and…
I don’t often like to write about students here because, well, many of them read my blog and it’s not that I’d say bad things, but what I say might get misinterpreted. But I think when I see such good work coming out of them, I feel compelled to say something. We asked our students…
Jackie at A Patchwork Life responds to the PTA debate, as a mom volunteering in a lower income school. I think that the parents who responded to Elizabeth’s post that I linked to yesterday tend to be in higher income school districts, where the tax base is such that they probably could fully fund the…
Image via Wikipedia There’s been a bit of discussion about this NY Times article about the humanities needing to prove they’re worth the money in such trying economic times. I should say here and now that I have a degree in English from a SLAC, so I hope that gives me some credibility. Tim Burke…
For the last few days, I’ve been tweaking my class blog site in response to what my co-teacher and I see as the needs for the site, not just in terms of organization (though that’s important), but also to continue to foster a good online community there. I successfully implemented several cool features that left…
Yesterday, I got a request from our school district to fill out a survey about “21st Century Learning.” I did. They asked a lot of the right questions. Although they did ask about whether all children should have laptops, most of their questions were about whether web 2.0 tools should be used and how and…
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