Last Week, I was at the Intel Classroom of Distinction Interactive Forum. Technically this was a technology conference about the future of education, but I have learned much more about 21st century learning by listening to NECC, TIE, SXSW, and many others on my iPod.
I have been hearing from so many educators (Wesley Fryer, Steve [...]
For over a month, my students have engaged in working on a few different wiki projects (Utopias, -Isms, and Book Discussions), but the excitement climaxed when they started collaborating with a group of 8th graders from Wallingford, CT. The students started to create their own spaces to talk about the issues that were close to [...]
I hate to resort to cliche, but I’m afraid that there isn’t much that I can do about that now. I have already committed way too too much of my time to choosing a name for a podcast that doesn’t even exist yet. Cameron Reilly over at The Podcast Network in a recent conversation over [...]
There is a new type of reputation out there. It lingers and builds long after you you have stopped caring about it. Managing it is hard. Too many elements to focus on, and too little time to maintain them all. So, you do what you can.You look for just the right resources to update at [...]
I was at a wedding this past weekend and I had a sort of epiphany. I’m not really sure why it was at a wedding rather than anywhere else, but I immediately took the white paper napkin clinging to the bottom of a cold water glass near me and I scrawled out the greatest fallacy [...]
CSAP can do weird things to you. It kind of goes to work on your head. There is nothing unique about your test. It is the same as everyone else’s. And so you crave to do something original, to snap the unending monotony of test giving and test taking. The Colorado Student Assessment Program provided [...]
Paper is:
• Static.
• Linear.
• Finite.
• Singular.
Digital Writing is:
• Dynamic.
• Multi-dimensional.
• Infinite.
• Pluralistic.
With these things in mind, all writing should be:
• Infinitely editable
• Inherently clickable
• Continually discussed
• Focused on revisions and the history of revisions.
Dave Cormier turned me on to the idea that we are still writing for the technology of paper, even if we have [...]
Getting a service un-banned is much harder than getting it banned. Whether it is a book, a substance, or a website, once something has been declared undesirable, it is nearly impossible to see it as wholesome again. It has now something to be guarded against, something to be feared. It holds too much power, and [...]
The first piece of my personal curriculum that I have decided to tackle is reading 3 boy coming-of-age novels and starting one of my own. This is not something I have done absentmindedly, but rather with the strange focus of something that has true importance for my life. You see, I keep coming back to [...]
Resources are scarce. People are scrounging around, negotiating uneasy solutions, forgoing all tact. The truth is: people are desperate. They want what other people have.
The computers. It always comes down to the computers.
“When can I schedule my class in the lab? What times exactly do you need the laptops? Can I just use a few [...]
