cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by a_whisper_of_unremitting_demand I grew up in Huntsville, AL. So my dad still sends me news from the area. It turns out Huntsville City Schools1 are going 1:1 with HP laptops in 4-12th grades and tablets in lower grades. I don’t know details beyond this article2, but based […]
Come Join The Party
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Thomas Hawk We’re looking to hire a new Director of Operational Technology1. The job description is below in block quotes. It’s fairly boring. I think that’s a legal requirement. Stuff I think you should know is above that. These are interesting times. You are joining […]
ITRT Aggregation Site Reflection
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by bionicteaching Back in November of 2010,1 I posted about building an ITRT “mother blog”2 to share things I thought might be useful for Henrico ITRTs. It seems like it’s working on my end. There are currently 1912 posts from at least 261 different sources3 and […]
A Few English Parlor Tricks
Despite all evidence to the contrary I haven’t given up coming up with decent WCYDWT examples for English. In the meantime, here are a few English pieces that don’t make that bar but interest me nonetheless. They aren’t much more than parlor tricks but they might interest someone. “My Hands Smell Like Colon” Colon vs […]
Free Range Foie Gras and Heroin
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by bionicteaching These two articles have no direct links to education but have some connections in my head. Foie Gras It helps if you understand gavage and how people make foie gras right now. “They’ll eat anything if they think that they’re wild. But that’s the […]
The textbook as unreliable narrator
NBCLearn Safe and trustworthy – each resource is selected to be K-12 appropriate, and held to the highest NBC News Standards and Practices. Washington Post NBC told this blog today that it would investigate its handling of a piece on the “Today” show that ham-handedly abridged the conversation between George Zimmerman and a dispatcher in […]
Is it a lie?
So I actually taught a 55 minute class Monday. I’d give myself a C- but I think the underlying concept and the examples are decent and worth sharing. Here’s the idea. Essentially it’s easier and easier to tell convincing lies in a digital environment. I’m stealing from Dan Meyer here. I asked the kids to […]
Random Thoughts and Examples of Student Dashboards
This collection of dashboards1 was brought on by a tweet2 from Dan Meyer but precipitated by the fact that I am struggling to figure out what matters in terms of a future LMS and how the data we present (or don’t present) to students and teachers impacts education as a whole.3 While we4 often say […]
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Guest Post
Hello Ms. Rivas, I would be interested in a post that details why allowing random people who solicit you via email to guest post on your blog is a terrible idea. Seriously, Tom On Feb 24, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Katheryn Rivas wrote: Hi Tom, I hope this email finds you well. I only recently […]
4 Bad Reasons to Switch to Digital Content
There are good reasons to use digital content. They don’t seem to come up that often in the articles and posts I’ve been reading lately. Below, with some degree of hyperbole, I mock them. I’m not saying these arguments ought to be negated in their entirety but there are certainly better reasons out there. Granted, […]