Working At The Edge

Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

The Mirror

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It’s human nature to not want to take responsibility for problems. We are good – very good –  at this behavior in education. One of the most common problems I hear about (largely from adults – parents and teachers) is the “distraction” of technology. And the scapegoat is almost always, “the technology” or the students. […]

Immersing Ourselves

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This was posted by Making Thinking Visible on their Facebook wall earlier today: Changes in our ability to access information and engage in non-school based vehicles for acquiring information are pushing schools and educators to think beyond the delivery of information as their prime role. It really resonated with me, even though I’d like to […]

TEDx NYED – My notes….

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the TEDxNYED event at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. I enjoyed attending the event and was pleased to hear so much about the importance of students creating and collaborating. We don’t do enough of this, via technology tools, in schools. Unedited LiveStream is […]

Is BYOD good for learners and teachers?

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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) certainly seems to be a topic among many school leaders – locally and nationally. In fact, at the state technology conference in Pennsylvania (PETE&C) this past February, there was an entire strand of sessions on BYOD. I do not work in a BYOD district so I do not have any […]

Consumption AND Creation

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Teaching Kids to be “Digital Citizens” (Not Just “Digital Natives”) The ideas in this article rang true after a colleague and I heard an Apple presenter extolling the virtues of the iPad…almost exclusively through the lens of content consumption. Moving further into content/knowledge creation is an important part of the vision of the classroom we […]

Social Learning

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This is a great stand-alone presentation (via RJ Jaquez) about social learning. My undergraduate class at Moravian College starts this week. One of my objectives is to challenge them to think about teaching and learning differently. I’ll have to work a viewing of this slide show into our work because I think it describes the […]

Learning Responsible Behavior Now

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We are in the first year of a learning initiative (TL2014) that has as it’s goal the transformation of teaching and learning. As a part of this initiative, each student in grade 6-12 has been provided a laptop computer to use during the school day and after hours at home. Our filtering system during the […]

Commitment and Passion in Artists

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For much of my adult life I’ve had the opportunity to attend a lot of music, opera and theater living so close to New York City. I marvel at how the success of the ensemble art form – opera, musical theatre, theatre and orchestra – principally relies on two things: the passion of the leader […]