Very disturbing privacy statements from Edmodo, Schoology, and Coursera: Thank you so much for compiling these three excerpts from the policies of tech companies. I think that most of us are blissfully unaware about these kinds of practices, but I’m not sure that we can use ignorance as an excuse …
An honest reflection on how to build a PLN from scratch from someone who is less than a year in: This is probably one of the best statements made about building a PLN that I have heard in years: “This is perhaps my most important lesson of all: You need …
What a wonderful critique of academia: As someone very much within the K-12 learning landscape, I am struck by just how many people I work with are in the positions they hold by simply being good at “the game of school.” When they have made such wonderful strides at their …
Another collaborative challenge for making and creating the future of teaching and learning: I am really excited about this idea of “Walk my world”, but I am more excited about just how many ways you are modeling for others how to capture their environment and their learning. I am particularly …
A great example of connected reading and writing in the high school English classroom. There is something extremely powerful going on here within both your autonomy and your ability to express the need for feedback. I do believe that “being left alone in your classroom” is possibly holding the rest …
The more that I provide support for people who need to use the Share box in Google Drive, the more that I realize it is flat out BROKEN. We need a better way to share documents, and the confusing set of options in Google Docs, is not the way to …
When personalized professional learning goes so right: I am so glad that you are okay with folks asking you to “stop” for all the right reasons. I think that very often we hear that word and we think that we need to press right on through. I love that this …
What an amazing set of student voices in this post: The written words of students, particularly those that are deeply engaged in the learning process, present the single most inspiring moments of my own teaching career. These words are no different, and I think you should feel extremely proud that …
What an amazing example of what is possible with cross-classroom collaborations and connected educators! I know that this post is from a couple years ago, but I am just now finding it, and I am so glad that you captured all that you did for this project. It is clear …
My thoughts about how trying is harder than you think: I love how this post is half inspiration and half opening the conversation to other opportunities for learning (the links and the week at a glance). Your structure of a story also really resonates with me. I believe in the …