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What a difference a day makes

August 26th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Change, Web 2.0

This week our school began our first 1:1 iPad deployment to all juniors and seniors. (Teachers had received their iPads during the summer.) It’s been so energizing to watch the transformation sweeping through the campus and watching changes that perhaps it was hard for us to really envision until we saw it happening. Suddenly, we [...]

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Time to change the “narrative”?

September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Change

In my previous post, I was lamenting the ‘pre-packaged” approach of NBC’s Education Nation programming, due to the bias that seemed clearly present in the selection of summit leaders, and descriptions of the teachers who are presenting. Teacher Anthony Cody(of Oakland, Ca) has written an impassioned piece regarding this whole “packaged narrative” that many of [...]

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What will happen in the “blur”

August 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Change, Web 2.0

In Mexico there is an area known as the ”blur”– the rare area where the water from caves underground mingle with water from the ocean. A recent post by Jon Becker, “Who are the Thought Leaders in Educational Leadership?” reminds me of that rarified space where two entities mingle and create something new. In his post, Jon challenged education [...]

Stepping out of the bubble

July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Change, Leadership

Chip and Dan Heath point out in their influential book Made to Stick that we suffer from the “Curse of Knowledge”—“Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.” This is a key dilemma facing educational leaders, from Arne Duncan to campus level principals. How do [...]

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No heads in the sand here

May 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Change, libraries, Web 2.0

Whither are libraries going? Just this week a colleague suggested to me that librarians might be a dying profession. However, I don’t believe that, nor do I think that librarians have their heads in the sand about the evolving nature of their profession, clients, or facilities or materials. Not only are we hearing this message from [...]

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And the children shall lead them?

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Future students, Learning, Web 2.0

How often do students not want an assignment to end? In the blogosphere, we often talk about the transformative power of assignments that ignite student passions and connect them to a global audience, and the importance a tool like blogging can play in that. In this case, Christian Long’s Alice Project wasn’t just about blogging [...]

NetGen Teachers?

July 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Change, Net Gen

” . . . These employers know that for Net Geners, work should be fun. Net Geners see no clear dividing line between the two . . . .” Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital “Our research suggests that they expect to choose where and when they work; they use technology to escape traditional office space [...]

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Which way do we go?

April 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Change, libraries

This morning I saw a new website twittered– BooksFree.com –which allows you to “rent” books like you do Netflix videos. Demise of library services as we know them? Will people still want to go to a place if they can get the item via their mailbox? (of course, it’s not free, you have a monthly [...]

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What will the future of print look like?

March 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Change

I just finished an interesting article in Fortune Magazine(the print version, I might add) about the e-reader technologies for magazines. There are several ventures considering various types of e-readers that would download magazines onto tablets or paper-thin devices. The article raises several questions, with which I concur, such as whether or not readers would want [...]

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