Warning

Cartoons keep speaking to me

Monday, October 12th, 2009

These are not the voices you want reminding you of where education is headed. Centralized pacing guides, centrally created lesson plans and myriad of other choices are moving teachers into the role of trained chickens with little choice and less say about what happens in their classrooms. Standardization is great for planning and scaling but [...]

Signs of the 2Pac-alypse

Friday, September 4th, 2009

These are real song lyrics. And I always thought “Feelin On Your Booty” was as low as lyrics could go. If 2Pac were dead, and not hiding out on an island in the Caribbean, he’d be rolling in his grave. Shorty just text me, say she wanna sex me LOL smiley face, LOL smiley face [...]

Forced Obsolescence

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

1 Phone- in use but hidden. Laptop- closed and visible. Filter . . . . . useless. 1 This was an unposed shot. I’m easily forgotten and happen to have a camera.

Edtech Survivalist

Friday, September 26th, 2008

In my ever greater efforts to make a fool of myself in the name of educational technology I agreed to do an “interview” for Jim “Edupunk1” Groom’s Edtech Survivalist blog. We filmed this on the fly2 in a creek by my house. Some of the kids wandering around aren’t even ours. The swamp comment towards [...]

Google Zeitgeist as a Writing Prompt

Monday, January 21st, 2008

So the folks over at Google Blogoscoped had a great idea. Use Google trends as a writing prompt. For instance, if the top queries are … 1. subaru impreza 2. priyanka chopra 3. build a bear … and so on … … then your narrative may go like this, to quote from Simon’s try: I [...]

Nightmare (guard your passwords)

Friday, January 5th, 2007

An educational technology blog I followed out of Georgia (SEGA Tech) seems to have been abducted by a porn site. It’s possible the author has turned to the porn business but I kind of doubt it. A not so nice reminder to keep your passwords secure and your software/apps updated. That’d be quite a nightmare. [...]