Jan

8

Fact vs. Fiction

January 8, 2007 | 3 Comments

Please check out this post at The Pulse by Pete Reilly–The Facts About Online Sex Abuse and Schools. Mr. Reilly effectively dispells the hype in the media and effectively shows the truth about online abuse. Unfortunately, there are too many people in leadership positions both in schools and in government that hear the very few [...]

Jan

5

Educating Trumps Blocking

January 5, 2007 | 22 Comments

We’ve been blocking Google from our school computers because of the image search portion of the engine. This has made teachers insane because they can’t search for anything without being screen-doored. One of our elementary teachers couldn’t even search for a picture of a dove to supplement a reading activity today. Our students don’t even [...]

Jan

4

It Never Hurts to Ask

January 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

Our district technology committee met today after school to talk about how to spend the rest of this year’s money and to work on next year’s plan. In the course of the discussion, I was able to advocate for additional computer lab space. Our teacher on the committee, Sharon H., helped support the request.
Currently in [...]

Dec

19

Free, Equal Access to Excellence in Public Education

December 19, 2006 | 5 Comments

I’m not sure how I missed it, but I’m very glad I caught Will Richardson’s post from early November. Will writes a letter to his two children about a future college education and in it he says,
For most of your young lives, you’ve heard your mom and I occasionally talk about your futures by saying [...]

Nov

4

I Can’t Drive 55

November 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment

If by some odd chance you’re reading me and you’re not reading Will Richardson at weblogg-ed, you’re missing the writing that most challenges me to do more, to move faster, to make a bigger difference. In this latest post, Will talks about the change that’s necessary,
We go back and forth in this community about whether [...]

Oct

20

Renovate or rebuild?

October 20, 2006 | 5 Comments

Do you ever imagine your ideal high school? I do. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of education and how dramatically learning will shift in the next 10 years. I wonder if public high schools will shift to mirror the learning shift. I wonder if we’ll plan the changes we need in public education [...]

Oct

8

You’ve got 30 minutes to explain

October 8, 2006 | 2 Comments

I was sitting at my son’s hockey practice today with a terrific gentleman who I’ve known for several years talking about our kids. He’s of a slightly older generation than I am, yet he’s very clear minded about technology and also very practical.
As we were talking about the kids, he said he always leaves the [...]

Sep

19

Teachers giving it a go in G-Town

September 19, 2006 | 4 Comments

Two teachers in G-Town are giving blogs a try in the classroom. Crystal is using a classroom blog to post questions for students in her college level computing fundamentals course. I can see her students struggling to move beyond the level of commication they’re accustomed to on IM and myspace. Crystal remains dedicated to the content [...]

Aug

29

Who’s going to own the responsibility of technology integration?

August 29, 2006 | 7 Comments

After a long weekend, I thought I would sign on tonight and just read through everything on my Bloglines. No time to write, just read what everyone else is thinking about as school begins. And of course there was a Will Richardson post on Weblogg-ed.com that got me thinking and then responding.
Will writes about technology integration, “I [...]

Aug

9

Let’s just ignore the whole technology gig.

August 9, 2006 | 3 Comments

So I stopped in at one of Will Richardson’s sessions with teachers this morning and I was trying to imagine what those who were quiet were thinking. I imagine some were thinking there’s no way I’m ever going to use this in the classroom, it’s too much work without enough benefit. I imagine others were [...]

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