I found this embedded on Karl Fischs’ wonderful blog “The Fischbowl” and it pertains to side conversations we’re having in our district.
What’s interesting is that our conversations have focused more on the question of “who owns the content”? That is, who owns, who can copyright, content developed by teachers and used with [...]
Copyright laws hinder scholarship…actually, the article gets a bit more pointed and says it’s “destructive”.
Will Science and Engineering be a Good Career?…an incredibly fascinating article that points out that – contrary to public perception – the US has NOT been declining in the number of students who perform well in [...]
Neither snow nor rain…nor tonsils…skyping into your class while staying home with a sick child.
College for $99 a month…yet another article that thinks universities are in for some MAJOR changes in the future.
Google Wave…a report on a Wave that discusses the use of Wave for students…I still don’t [...]
Web Technology is about to change education…in which Russel Moench argues why technology is the giant that will finally change education.
Online degrees viewed more favorably…it’s not just shopping for a piece of paper!
The Whitehouse expects 250,ooo education jobs will be saved or created with the stimulus…some might say it’s socialism, [...]
I’m not a parent (yet), but friends tell me about the wonderful world of YouTube for their children. Want that “rubber ducky” song from Bert and Ernie? Find it on YouTube. You’re child has a fascination with raccoons? Find some interesting clips about them in nature. In short, you have more control over what you [...]
Cog Dog Blog’s very appropriate question: Why the heck are we using terrible paper forms?
I’m proud that our district finaly has gone to using EMA form online.
Zephyr Teachout argues that private colleges will drastically shrink in the next 10 years because of the proliferation and ease of online education. He predicts they will follow a similar trajectory of the newspaper business. It is a fascinating read (as are the comments).
As I write this a radio advertisment appears in my [...]
We’ll get to the point – eventually – when we’ll simply tell our students to bring their own wireless devices (laptop, iPod touch, etc.) and hop on the school network. I would guess that many students (not to mention teachers) would leap at the opportunity to use their own machines.
Of course, there are security [...]
Dan Myer opines that stock photo + quote = tacky lameness. I suppose from a purely intellectual stance he might have a point.
But sometimes we teachers love tackiness.
Scott Mcleod, technoedu evangalist supreme apostle, puts one up every week. Monday’s feature:
I’ve fiddled with the software called Freemind from year to year and, while being impressed with its abilities, never got around to using it with any kind of regularity.
That changed at the end of last year. I created a mindmap of everything needed in 8th grade social studies (check out the fun [...]
Stanly Fish writes and interesting post on What Should Colleges Teach (short answer, “writing courses that teach writing…not everything else”).
In a follow up post, he mentions this quote from his comments section:
“Young people who can’t write can’t think.”
Where I to be teaching students, I would love to present this quote and [...]
Daniel Pink gave an interesting TED talk on the science of motivation, particularly motivation in a world that places high value on right brain conceptual abilities.
To lift the main idea:
As long as the task involved mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance. [...]
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