When I was completing the Edublog Awards, I realized how few “new” bloggers I promote or read regularly. (In fact, one of the things that appeals to me about the awards is that it brings so many new blogs to my attention). Recently, this blog from the “new school librarian” Melissa Corey cut through the [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2010
Edublog Awards addendum
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0
As many of you know from participating, the Global Education conference online was an amazing undertaking by the intrepid Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon. After participating in some excellent sessions at the conference, I feel compelled to honor them in the Edublogs awards because their work was an amazing example of the ability to harness [...]
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21st Century Education is the Real reform
November 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
For National Day of Blogging for Real Reform day, I’m re-sharing my HuffingtonPost article from a couple of weeks ago, 21st Century Education is the Real Reform. We need to honor and listen to the stories of innovative educators like the ones mentioned in my post above (and their students) around the globe–and instead of [...]
Reflective practitioners need not apply
November 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Web 2.0
In a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute signaling national educational belt-tightening, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan signaled a grim era of budget cutting for schools, while offering some insightful and not so insightful recommendations for schools to address nationwide budget shortfalls. Once again, it feels like the recent ed reform love affair with [...]
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What do libraries provide? The human value.
November 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
In his grimly realistic post, “Do You Provide a Student’s Worth of Value?“ Doug Johnson asks us to consider seriously the value we provide to our schools in the light of looming budget shortfalls: “So here is my question: Do teachers see you adding a student’s worth of value in their classrooms? Does your presence [...]
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iPad trials summary
November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0
If you are popping onto my blog from our district’s tech newsletter, check out this summary of our iPad project. Or check out this link for more information! eanes ipad trial preliminaries See more presentations by technolibrary | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations
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Edublog awards–Time for some kudos
November 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
The Edublog Awards are here again! I know people always say it, but there are so very many excellent blogs to choose from that it makes it difficult (and somewhat arbitrary) to decide. All I know is that I find the more I know, the more I don’t know. So to all of you who [...]
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The nitty gritty details–Implementing iPads
November 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Web 2.0
After meeting with my district librarians this week, I realized that perhaps it would be helpful to spell out some details of our iPad implementation (my previous posts about the results of our pilot study and teacher responses are here and here) for both our own staff, but perhaps it will be of interest to [...]
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To Raise Student Achievement, Invest in Libraries
November 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Web 2.0
Sometimes we overlook the simplest things. Much of the talk of school reform has focused on merit pay, charter schools. and achievement tests. But actually, there is one obvious thing we can do to improve our students’ education, especially in the most impoverished schools. We can support well-staffed, well-stocked school libraries. It seems like a [...]
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Preliminary results — iPads in classroom and libraries
November 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ipads, Web 2.0
Our recent iPad study has included teachers, individual students and class use. This slideshow summarizes our preliminary results, comments from teachers, and benefits and issues of concern. (Our slideshow seems to be malfunctioning, so I will correct it shortly)(postscript: It is now corrected, see at the end of this post). Recently at Tech Forum Austin, [...]
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