I have been invited to speak to the Board of Directors of the National Education Association (NEA), our nation's largest teacher union, about disruptive innovation. I'm scheduled for the morning of Saturday, December 12. I only have 20 minutes, plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion. If' [...]
I’ve been nominated for a few Edublog Awards this year, including Best Individual Blog, Lifetime Achievement, and Best Leadership Blog (a nonexistent category!). I’m flattered that some folks think I’m worthy of nomination and am appreciative of their support of my writing.
I should be WAY [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager continues to make his move.
I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
FYI, if [...]
Here are four tales out of school, as relayed by parents:
Hatshepsut and Thutmose
Four questions from a study packet for a middle school World Civilizations class:
A. Nubia developed trade routes over land because:
there was not enough wood to build boats the Egyptians controlled the Nile the cataracts prevented river travel in Nubia Nubians only [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager continues to climb the charts.
I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, and other school organizations across the country. One of the discussion activities that we’ve [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager is climbing the charts.
At the beginning of this project round, I said:
The bottom line is that we all can have a voice now. It seems to me [...]
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?
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Today there was what I thought was an engaging Twitter conversation about the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Here is the general idea in 17 Tweets…
First, I posted about the latest standings and some backchannel grumblings I’ve been hearing:
Then I heard from John Larkin [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeff Piontek has widened his lead a bit more over Chris Lehmann. Alan November has claimed the lead in a category and Karl Fisch is pulling away from Michael Wesch.
Does it matter if a nominee nominated himself? Does [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeffrey Piontek has widened his lead slightly over Chris Lehmann. Alan November also is moving quickly up the charts.
FYI, if you count totals across ALL categories, Chris Lehmann would be in the lead with 462 votes. [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. As you can see, there’s been a shakeup at the top. Jeffrey Piontek is now slightly ahead of Chris Lehmann (if you don't count Chris' votes in the Universal Design for Learning category). Other folks who have [...]
A recent article from The Economist, The Cult of the Faceless Boss, caught my attention. Here’s an excerpt:
In general, the corporate world needs its flamboyant visionaries and raging egomaniacs rather more than its humble leaders and corporate civil servants. Think of the people who have shaped the modern business [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
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Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
[...]The Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series has been featured twice on The Huffington Post in the past few days. One of the stories currently is the lead for HuffPo’s technology section.
Anatomy (and meaning) of the “Did You Know?” video series “Did You Know?” tracks [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
[...]I’d like to thank everyone who participated in my 3–minute survey, Why isn’t your school organization making more progress? We had a total of 561 participants. Some charts and tables are below (click on images for larger versions). Also, here are some downloadable files:
Complete data packet Excel spreadsheet [...]The next phase of ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote crowdsourcing project is now live. Go vote!
The top 5 topics were as follows (in order):
Effective school leadership for the digital, global era Trends, tools, and tactics for 21st century learning Personal learning with 21st century tools Universal design for [...]I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn’t bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn’t sufficiently account for the needs and understandings of my audience. Let me explain…
I’m in Anaheim, California for the annual conference of the University Council for [...]
Back in July I said that
I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners.
I also noted that
In many job sectors, employees are expected to keep up with relevant technologies or risk job loss. When do we require that of K-12 and postsecondary educators? At [...]
Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular order):
Lack of adequate funding Unsupportive state / federal legislators Teacher / union resistance Lack of professional development Ineffective leadership Lack of time / space within [...]There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post itself, there are some excellent thoughts elsewhere as well:
Flat World Library Corporation Dangerously irrelevant libraries Ten hard questions [...]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' [...]
WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected?, on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja, Professor and Director of Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.
I have interacted with Michael a couple of times. [...]
October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference. I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators [...]
[cross-posted at CASTLE's 1-to-1 Schools blog]
While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference, I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop programs. Marge Beatty, chief administrator for the ESU, was willing to let me ask her a few' [...]
Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion. Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic suggestion is leading, but that lead is far from safe. If you haven’t yet voted, would you kindly [...]
A conversation I had with a superintendent at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference…
Superintendent: I’m new to my district. I spent the first year getting the lay of the land. I’m now ready to start making things happen when it comes to technology and our students but our technology [...]
I spent yesterday with technology integrationists from the various Educational Service Units in Nebraska. In my experience, technology integrationists usually are wonderful people who know a lot about digital societal shifts and effective technology usage in the classroom. What they don’t necessarily know, however, is how to foster system-level [...]
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[...]Some of you have noticed that I’ve got a new blog! I’m using Posterous to capture those online items that interest me but for which I don’t have time (or inclination) to blog about on Dangerously Irrelevant. For example, recent items include:
‘But I don’t want to teach [...]
Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha’s Homework Day. The company is inviting students to submit their homework problems to see if/how Wolfram Alpha can solve them. Should be interesting…
Will you or your students be participating?
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Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair amount of interest in its ‘choose your conference keynote’ project.
After just a few [...]
As budget cuts loom again in many states, employee termination, seniority, and ‘bumping rights’ are in the news. The essential issue is whether organizational leaders should be able to retain the employees they think are the most highly-skilled or whether seniority (or some other factor) should be employed instead. ‘Highly skilled’ in [...]
ISTE is asking us to help select one of its next conference keynotes. I am asking you to please vote for my suggestion:
As of this moment, the top three vote-getters all have to do with technology tools. Technology learning tools are important, but helping principals, superintendents, school [...]
Russ Goerend posted a couple of short video snippets from our small Tweetup at ITEC 2009 (for some reason a host of Flip cameras suddenly emerged…). In addition to a number of us Iowa tweeps, David Warlick and Steve Dembo kindly joined in the conversation.
Here’s [...]
David Warlick is a wonderful speaker and an even more wonderful person. I was very fortunate to spend some time with him last night and this morning. I have very much enjoyed being a learner in his presence...
My notes from David’s second presentation at ITEC 2009:
Blogging is about listening [...]Group notes from David Warlick's keynote at ITEC 2009.
<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b94b3ef7cd" >ITEC David Warlick Keynote</a>Keywords: redefine literacy Warlick
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
[I]n American education, policy making is not guided by what is best for children or the larger public. It is a political process driven by power. And the most powerful groups in that process are special interests, led by the teachers unions, with a stake [...]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the traditional “technology” of education - teachers and classrooms - unless that world changes fundamentally. (p. 77)
Scores of technology-based instructional programs are being used in [...]
The Ron Clark Academy looks like a wonderful school. But is it realistic to expect a significant number of our teachers to teach like this?
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
A. “The average technology score [from Education Week’s Technology Counts 2008] drops as union membership grows. . . . technology seems to be advancing more quickly in states where the unions are weakest” (p. 107). [chart is from p. 108]
B. “The percentage [...]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and its potential fully realized. Technological change will run into the same political roadblocks that all major reforms have run into, and for exactly [...]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
The American education system faces much more than a performance problem. It also faces a political problem that, in the grander scheme of things, is more fundamental than the performance problem itself - because it prevents the performance problem from being seriously addressed and resolved. [...]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
Even today, with educational technology in its earliest stages:
Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students. Education can be freed from geographic constraint. Students can have more interaction with . . . teachers and students who may be thousands of [...]First, I'd like to thank Scott for hosting me as part of my virtual tour to support The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology. You can follow the entire tour at Ed Tech Jen. To thank you for taking the time to find out a little about me' [...]
dr.scott.mcleod@gmail.com (Scott McLeod), Scott McLeod
