What’s in a Book?
I wrote a post this week for my Tech & Learning blog entry about books. If you haven’t read it, I would love to get your thoughts on the topic. The more I’ve thought about it, the more I wonder if the question simply doesn’t matter. Bud Hunt responded to the post on Twitter by […]
What’s the Goal?
There exists a philosophy of technology that states we should be dedicating specific time in our school day to teach students finite skills of operating computing technology. That in order to prepare our students properly for the world, we must teach them how to word process and how to operate Power Point and how to […]
A Polarized People
I was eating breakfast with my dad last weekend, just sitting enjoying the beautiful Sunday morning meandering through the topics of our lives, when half way through my plate of banana nut pancakes the conversation turned to politics. My father, never one to hold back an opinion, began to passionately engage the conversation. He worked […]
Practice Makes…
The average American student will take American history at least four times in the span of his or her education. How many of those people can now recall why the Battle of Quebec, fought in 1759, was an important event in American history? I was talking about this concept with a teacher this week, and […]
Viva la Revolution
I know that I should, and I think that I do, but I’m actually not entirely sure what the title of this post means. It sounds cool when you say it, and part of it is partly the title of a new project I played 1/3 of a part in starting. A few months ago […]