I am on my way to educon 2.1 right now, looking out into the night (don’t worry, I am using my phone in airplane mode). For some reason there are no clouds out there tonight, and all I can see are the bright lights of cities, clustered together and beautiful. …
Here is the second installment of the Douglas County School District’s conversations around learning and technology, which is cross-posted here. So, we focused our time today on discussing how to overcome typical stumbling blocks in teachers using technology to reach learning in the classroom. You can see the show notes …
Image by incurable_hippie via Flickr I wrote the draft of this yesterday, so I’m pretty sure it still counts for my writing a blog post every day this year goal. I realized something quite major for me today. I really hate picking up the phone. In fact, I have become …
Image via Wikipedia When I think about all of the ways in which students are measured and monitored, it strikes me that very little of the measuring is being done by the students themselves. Now, I know that others have written on this topic more than I have, but as …
Image via Wikipedia I have been thinking a lot about this concept in preparation for The On Button: Instant and Always-On Collaboration, but I don’t know that I ever thought about it in terms of money or value lost… until now. I believe in eliminating logins because you are walling …
Image via Wikipedia I hadn’t planned on blogging about this again this soon, but this post from Graham Wegner got me thinking about it again. In this post, he talks about “the popular public schools” that parents move for. He discusses the idea that popular doesn’t necessarily mean good. While …
Image by Firesign via Flickr So, I was just watching some TV with my 6 month old son while my wife catches a nap, and I saw this ad for Kaplan: I have to say, except for the fact that Kaplan is basically saying that they have a monopoly on …
Image via Wikipedia Today I was lucky enough to go and visit three Hope Online Sites in Denver. If you are unfamiliar with this program, basically it is a way for students to go to school using online currilum as a major part of their education. However, every single one …
Image by woodleywonderworks via Flickr I have been given the task of trying to find ways to pump up kids who are not all that excited about standardized tests. I am supposed to put together a quick reference guide for others who are experiencing a less than enthusiastic response to …
Image via Wikipedia One of the large tasks that I am doing right now is taking all of the courses that our online school taught during the first semester of this year and revising them according to the changes that the teachers made while teaching them. This means that I …