Category: schoolreform
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Podcast239: 21st Century Learning: Embedding New Skills and Assessments by Dr. Richard Hersh (COSN 2008 Keynote)
This podcast features a recording of Dr. Richard Hersh’s comments on March 10, 2008, at the COSN Conference in Washington D.C. in the opening keynote panel discussion. Dr. Hersh currently serves as the Co-Director of the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) the College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA.) He is focused on encouraging educators (as well…
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Paying teachers for high student test scores is BAD policy
The Oklahoma Creativity Project is: A chance to change our state of mind. A way for Oklahomans, and Oklahoma, to say look at me, look what I can create. Forget what you think you know about me. Dust off your dust bowl perception and look at what I’ve done for you lately. I am a…
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Podcast237: Unleashing the Transformational Power of One-to-One Computing in K-12 (COSN Panel)
This podcast is a recording of a session at the COSN 2008 conference in Washington D.C. on March 10, 2008, titled “Unleashing the Transformational Power of One-to-One Computing in K-12.” Members of the panel included the moderator: Leslie Wilson, President, One-to-One Institute; Chris Lehman, Principal, Science Leadership Academy, School District of Philadelphia; Dr. Rae Niles,…
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Podcast236: Let’s Invent the Future – A Presentation for Oklahoma Superintendents
This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared with Oklahoma superintendents on March 5, 2008, in Oklahoma City at an Apple Leadership Institute. If the world is flat for those with connectivity, what are we going to do to change our learning environments in schools to support the development of 21st century skills…
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Oklahoma on the verge of further eroding teacher professional development opportunities
I am amazed how out-of-touch many of our state leaders in Oklahoma appear to be when it comes to the needs of 21st century learners in our public schools. According to school officials (from various districts) with whom I visited this evening, the Oklahoma legislature is poised to pass a bill which would ELIMINATE three…
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XO Laptops coming to Birmingham, Alabama
As a vocal advocate for 1:1 computing I’ve been following the development of the XO Laptop, or “$100 laptop” from MIT, fairly closely the past few years. I had read about the possibility of XO Laptops being sold to school districts or even states in the United States, but until last week hadn’t realized (thanks…
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Podcast234: Lead Differently – Digitally Informed School Leadership for the 21st Century
This podcast is a recording of my final presentation at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. We were fortunate to have Dr. Scott Mcleod join us over Skype for the first ten minutes of this session from Mubai, India! The program description of my session was: Amazing new voice technologies…
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Podcast233: Building Bridges for Conversation Between IT and Instructional Leaders in Washington Schools
This podcast is a recorded interview with Julia Fallon at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 27, 2008. Instead of sponsoring separate technology leadership summits for IT and instructional administrators this year, NCCE conveners (including Julia) coordinated a joint leadership summit. This provided an excellent opportunity, through panel discussion and small group…
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Podcast232: Compelling Reasons to Involve Students in Technical and Instructional Technology Support with GenYES and TechYES
This podcast is a recorded interview with Megan and Emily of GenYES at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. GenYES offers several programs to involve students meaningfully in the ongoing provision of technical and instructional technology support in schools, as well as involve students in decisionmaking processes which concern educational…
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“What is Schooliness?” – Discursus and Open Thread (Clay Burell guest-post 2)
I Love Learning. I Hate Schooliness. –this is my motto. It’s one of the reasons I wrote (in a post, “On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher,” with about 70 comments now), I’m not sure how much longer I want to work for schools. I’d so much rather teach. So what is “schooliness”? I have…