Dear Will,
In less than two weeks you’ll be here in Iowa. We’re excited to have you visit. We’ve got an eager bunch of state leaders awaiting your insights.
Just to let you know, this probably isn’t your typical group of school leaders. This session with you is invitation-only and we [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann has retaken the lead over Jeff Piontek.
I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. I've taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate partners, and written book chapters and white papers.
I collected some of the highlights of that work on my new' [...]
Some brilliance from Sue King over at LeaderTalk:
I have said, "We must be explicit about what we want students to know, understand and be able to do."
What some heard was, "You are not doing a good job."
I have said, "We will be more effective [if] we collaborate and work" [...]
I received this message recently from a school administrator:
Our district is looking at building a new high school or middle school in the near future. I would appreciate your opinion on what technology should be in place in order to create classrooms suitable for teaching 21st century skills. For example, I [...]
I’ve had a lot of fun these past ten days posting quotes from Robert Fried’s The Game of School. I think Fried does a fabulous job of highlighting how schools as institutions have largely moved away from many of our desired ends for students and their learning. Not always, not for [...]
I’m excited to be in Norman, Oklahoma for the University of Oklahoma K20 Center’s annual Winter Institute. I really like the folks at the K20 Center and am looking forward to spending more time with them today and tomorrow. I’ll also get to see [...]
I voted today (22nd in line!).
I voted for future-oriented leadership instead of compliance. I voted for anticipatory, not reactionary.
I voted for engagement with the world, not bellicosity. I voted for the view that education is a societal investment rather than a private good.
I voted for caring over self-interest. I voted [...]
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has been on an unbelievable tear this year. Back in February it released its annual Trends Report on NCLB Title II, Part D (Enhancing Education Through Technology, or E2T2). Previous national reports are available at the SETDA [...]
Thank you for being a loyal reader of At the Schoolhouse Gate. Effective immediately, "The Gate" is being replaced by The Edjurist. Mosey on over and see why!
[...]I just finished Dr. Paul Collier's award-winning book, The Bottom Billion. An economics professor at Oxford University, Collier notes that traditionally we have thought of the world's population as being made up of '€˜a rich world of one billion people facing a poor world of five billion people'€™ [...]
Here are my notes from the NETS-A Refresh session…
Dr. Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, asked me to stand up and describe the innovative work that CASTLE and I have done regarding the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A). That was very kind of him [...]
Here are my notes from Monday morning’s CTO Leadership Forum, sponsored by CoSN. The focus was on digital content and the role of the CTO (chief technology officer)…
Ann McMullan, Executive Director of Instruction, Klein ISD, Texas
Clearly, if the superintendent isn’t involved in these conversations (about digital learning], it [...]
Yesterday was a fun day here at NECC. Other than the SIGTC Forum, I had nothing scheduled. Of course I hung out in the Blogger’s Cafe!
When I showed up at the Cafe, Jeff Utecht and Brian Crosby were busy hacking the monitor that ISTE had [...]
I ran across an interesting article, From Literacy to Digiracy, in The Economist (hat tip to Angela Maiers). Here’s the money quote:
For anyone under the age of 20, the world being experienced is one where the internet has always existed, and where everyone who matters is only [...]
When I moved to Iowa from Minnesota, the Iowa Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) didn’t test me before it issued me a driver’s license. It took into account my long history of driving and my clean record and determined that I did not need to take either a written or driving test. [...]
An idea so brilliant that I’m ashamed I didn’t think of it earlier: edublogger fantasy baseball! 12 edubloggers. An online fantasy baseball league. Winner gets online bragging rights and an actual, physical trophy courtesy of CASTLE. Hey, if we’re a virtual community, let’s do it right!
Here are the [...]
The Esmerelda County (NV) School District has prohibited students from speaking Spanish on the school bus. Personally, not only do I think this is a loser in court, but I'm saddened by the failure to realize that multilingual individuals are going to be important assets in a global [...]
