Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
I found this great resource and wanted to share. We hear lots about how students (can) use the internet for unproductive (or just plain stupid) endeavors. Educators and parents need to be teaching children and modeling the qualities of good digital … [Continue reading]
Watch this teenager school educators on the dangers of Common Core... (not embeddable on WordPress.) I've seen this video shared numerous times over the past few days on social media, so I thought I'd watch it. Interesting it is. Nice to see a … [Continue reading]
This past week I attended the 2013 PASA/PSBA School Leadership Conference and had the fortunate opportunity to present a workshop along with two colleagues, Michael Roth (@mqroth) and Lynn Fuini-Heten (@lfuinihetten), on social media and how we are … [Continue reading]
I located this quote/photo on George Couros's blog, Principal of Change. Over the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to engage with a variety of educators on the topic of teaching and learning with technology. The above quote from Clay Shirky … [Continue reading]
Why do videos like this one, claiming to prepare our kids for the future, always look like they were created in the 20th century? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5WleWAMU5I&w=420&h=315] And this video explaining the common … [Continue reading]
One of the buzz phrases these days with the arrival of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is "career readiness." I don't think there is any educator that would disagree with the notion that we want to prepare our students to be successful beyond … [Continue reading]
The graphic below was created in response to some results from a survey we administered last spring connected to our technology initiative, Teaching and Learning 2014. A consistent perception over the past two years of surveys has been that a laptop … [Continue reading]
We have been using Google Apps for Education in my school district for about five years, under the name Falcon Apps. It has really become a part of the culture throughout the organization and has worked particularly well with our 1:1 laptop/learning … [Continue reading]
As I was flipping through my Facebook feeds on Sunday, I noticed the following post from Fast Company. I see their point, and I do understand that the behavior of some people can be labeled with no other word than distraction. However, I think it is … [Continue reading]
