Not So Distant Future

Tonight I lay in bed beside my six year old nephew, listening to him read and giggle his way through a new book.   Driving home afterwards, I thought of Tyler Clementi,  the Rutgers student who committed suicide this week after fellow students livestreamed his personal life onto the internet.  I imagined  him at six, like [...]

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When people wonder why some of us(like myself) have been insistently tweeting, Facebooking, and blogging about NBC’s upcoming Education Nation programming–it is because I fear that the voice of many educators who do not agree with this national story of education are going to be completely squelched and that the damage done by a one-sided [...]

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I recently contacted NBC regarding their Education Nation summit next week, and shared a concern that a few of us had blogged about that didn’t appear to be any building level teacher or principal representation at the summit, but rather a plethora of business leaders and political leaders.  I was also concerned that the only [...]

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We’re starting a second phase of our mini-pilot with iPads by looking at how students use the iPads academically, and of course my specific  interest lies in how they can be utilized throughout the research process. We’ll be doing some before and after surveys with students and testing out some apps but as a teaser, [...]

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