I loved Daniel Pink’s Drive and found it extremely relevant to many of problems confronting education (cf. some of my thoughts on it), so when +Chris Long suggested his newest book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others for a #CAedchat summer read, I eagerly jumped right on it.…
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As I begin my summer reading binge, I’ve been trying to balance my consumption of pro-technology materials to include anything that offers alternative and/or critical views of the new (e.g. tech.-focused) directions in education. Much like I’ve argued with questions of the value of foreign language, I think it’s healthy to face and even embrace criticism, since it helps us to build a fuller understand of why we do certain things in certain ways through reflection, lest our ideas become dogmatic or myopic.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Bryan Alexander is blogging with frequency again (hooray!), in his exemplary educator style — pose a topic, add information, perhaps include an informed opinion, and rather than end the blog with a definitive period have it linger for further discussion.
He is currently musing on the cost of college, the decline in college enrollments, and the general purpose of college in today’s society. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So another semester is finished and I submitted my grades. not sure if that is a good thing or not. My biggest quandary is what to do with a student that earned a B+ on his final worked on the collaborative exams but turned in very little class or home work.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well the end is near several of my students have already taken the final, and now I am depressed. While most of the students did better on the final than on the pretest (as they should) two have done worse(?)! Now I admit the final is tough, but still shouldn’t all the students gain some … Continue reading 
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So, as always at the end of the school year, I begin to consider what I did this year that worked, and what I did that didn’t work. I think about what I will do next year that will be revolutionary… Revolutionary.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last week we launched #teachtheweb, a Mozilla Open Online Collaboration (MOOC – more commonly “Massive Open Online Course”). The first week was all about Making as Learning, and today, I’m going to write a reflection. Not an update about Webmaker stuff, not a plug for the MOOC (which is awesome, and you should totally join it), but a reflection on the idea Making as Learning and whether or not that’s always true.…
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hand up by flickr user L.Bo via CC
Raise your hand if any of the following applies to you:
a) you hear people talking about using Skype or blogging in their classrooms, but really aren’t sure what they’re talking about or why they might want to do that;
b) you would LOVE to do some connecting with other classrooms around the world, but just aren’t sure how to take the first steps;
c) you have your class blogging, but would like to find some ways to take it “up a notch”, and find an authentic audience for your class;
d) you sometimes have an urge to pound your head against the wall, as you try to explain to people that meaningful, real tech integration is possible in their classrooms – even primary classrooms?…
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