'technology' Category
Classroom Collaborative Give and Take
Graham calls it a grassroots collaboration. And that, it is. He set up a wiki last August called Spin the Globe. It’s a web space where his class and mine can hopefully learn from each other about our respective far-flung parts of the world. Graham gave it a fair review, but I haven’t had a [...]
Report Card Reform
For people interested in technological change in educational settings, we’re going through one here. The last one on this scale was about 15 years ago when the School District gave us all email accounts. At Wednesday’s staff meeting we got a peek at the next big deal. It’s PowerSchool time now. System-wide change begins with [...]
Sustainability and Science Education
It’s been a while since I’ve written here, mainly due to hassles managing a classroom full of 12-year-olds full of holiday cheer bent on early celebration. It’s exhausting to maintain a focus right now. We have another week to go, right up to Dec. 21. And despite pressure to join the merriment, I push [...]
The Larger Question
Gerald Bracey asks 3 questions that might interest education technology bloggers.
The first two:
The immediate questions that come to mind — or certainly should come to mind — are “What constitutes a 21st century skill?” and then “Who gets to define such a skill?” The answer to the first question is “nobody knows” and the answer [...]Ethos and Blogos in Education
Miguel Guhlin was responding to Ryan Bretag’s Death of a blogger II about whether blogs could be used as “a collaborative tool for the betterment of education.” Miguel wrote:
Blogs are as alive as the people who keep them, the people who join the conversation, but in the end, blogging is a conversation with the author [...]Reader Returns
My Google Reader snag from last week has been cleared up. After my help request, I got an email from “The Google Team” with a list of helpful suggestions, all of which I’d tried - things like clearing the browser cache, disabling browser extensions, and so forth. It took a week, but they’ve got it [...]
Herd Poisoning
Graham Wegner points out some problems that cropped up in the comments of a couple of education blogs. He comments on the perils of taking up heartfelt issues in blog comments, and assuming we’ll be understood.
Neil Postman’s Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk has an excerpted chapter, Propaganda [pdf], in which he argues that propaganda [...]Aggregator Aggravation
If John Lennon’s song had another verse that said, “Imagine there’s no Google….” I’d know something about that because my Google Reader has been “loading” for the past day. No, I haven’t actually been watching the little spinning icon in the yellow bar because I’ve got better things to do, but every now and then [...]
Tumblr
Tom Hoffman shared this post about tumblr 3.0 the other day. The review of the feature set it offers was enticing enough to get me to set up an account.
It was actually so simple that I had a new blog running before I realized it. I haven’t taken advantage of all the features yet. [...]Iterations Toward Irrelevance
Wondering about how we lose touch with what everyone else seems to be talking about. At some point I stopped caring about popular music, for example. I listen to it on the radio now when the kids are in the car. But I don’t care about it like they do. I stopped paying attention to [...]
