Education

“What ails thee Jock?”

By now you have probably been sent a link to, or have even read, Playing to Learn – Susan Engel’s…

15 years ago

Where are the adults? Leadership and responsibility in the digital world.

Teacher of the Year Anthony Mullen has another excellent Road Diary post today.  At Kent State University, Ohio,  he walks…

15 years ago

“I know you are into technology …”

Well – yes – I suppose I am, and I always have been. As I child I haunted the school…

15 years ago

Advanced Pressure and the Race to Nowhere

Advanced Pressure - Video Library - The New York Times video.nytimes.com The problem with Advanced Placement classes and how they…

15 years ago

Data fatigue gets the measles

Some sanity on data excess from the always interesting Seth Godin: Too much data leads to not enough belief. Business…

15 years ago

The Children’s Machine: How children take to technology

A second grader needed a place to hang out and my office was available. The conversation went somewhat like this:…

15 years ago

Hoover that google

With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…

15 years ago

Bash Street Pols

Could it be that some of the harping on 21st century skills and the need for 21st century schools is…

15 years ago

The Carrot and the Cattleprod

Many years ago I wrote an article with the title The Carrot and the Cattleprod.  It’s so long ago that…

15 years ago

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

15 years ago