I just got home from EduCon and my head is swimming with ideas. However, on the drive home, I saw a response to a tweet about scaling education reform and it really got me thinking. So much Ed Reform is structural, policy oriented and “designed to scale.” I get all of that. It makes sense [...]
Last week, Jack, the best account exec I’ve encountered in 14 years as an IT Director, told me he was leaving his company–bad news, indeed. He came to see my team and me Thursday and took us out for one last business lunch like so many we’ve enjoyed over the years. He was quick to [...]
When you hear people talking about a 1:1 program they could be talking about a lot of different things. A few years ago what you’d hear people discussing is laptops verse stylus-based tablets (“old school”) and whether do go Mac or PC. Today’s conversations includes the these things, plus: models of ownership and the BYOD [...]
Much has been written about ePortfolios, which combine curated archives of digitized student work, “rubrics” indicating the learning objectives the work responded to, and student-teacher commentary about how well the work met those objectives. A list of background resources is appended below this post. While it is relatively easy for “technology pioneer” teachers to adopt [...]
Is Technology in the Classroom a Square Peg for a Round Hole? Now that my youngest child is off to college I decided it was time for me to do something for myself, so I found a program at George Mason, enrolled, and am now on my way to achieving a Master’s in Education (specifically [...]
Every few months a new book or national news reports on the unfilled promises of technology in education. I’ve noticed several recently and am challenged and want to challenge you to engage in the conversation. Please share a short vignette (five or less sentences) of a learning outcome or “ah ha” moment that would not [...]
We’ve all seen this. An administrator or teacher of influence sees a great session at a conference and says to themselves, “That is exactly the message that our school needs to hear! We totally need to do [that] or move in [that] direction!” Now, when the administrator or teacher of influence is thinking that, he [...]
