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  • Waiting For Superman: A Good Film to Provoke Conversations We Need

    Since I was already in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex to teach my “Computers in Classroom” course at UNT today and had a free evening, I drove about 45 minutes to a wonderful independent movie theater in Plano, Texas, and watched the movie, “Waiting for Superman.” I’ve read quite a few articles and blog posts in…

  • Welcome to Crescent PS: Teaching in a 1:1 Laptop Environment #ok1to1

    These are my notes from the opening session at the Crescent Public Schools‘ 1:1 learning conference on 4 June 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. MY ASIDE: THE STORYCHASERS MOBILE LEARNING TEAM BLOG IS A PLACE FOR EDUCATORS IN 1:1 SETTINGS TO SHARE IDEAS. 14 of the 19 Oklahoma schools involved in…

  • Working hard to get the public excited about MINIMUM standards

    This evening my wife and I have been finalizing the “application packages” for our 6 and 9 year old daughters to transfer into another public elementary school next year, which is an arts integration school. In searching for my oldest daughter’s last standardized test score report, we ran across the following letter from last year…

  • “Nothing “Flat” World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education by Curt Bonk #heartlandconf10

    These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s opening keynote address, “Nothing ‘Flat’ World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education” at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference…

  • Book recommendations for teachers to be (pre-service teachers)

    I good friend of mine and classmate from college is considering entering the teaching profession as a second career after he retires from the Air Force in a couple years. He asked me for my recommendations of books to read about teaching and being a teacher, and I thought I’d share my list here so…

  • Notes from the RTNDF Multimedia Workshop (Oklahoma)

    This morning I shared a presentation titled “Multimedia and Social Web School Publishing Exemplars” with educators gathered at the University of Oklahoma for the Oklahoma RTNDF Multimedia Workshop. Many thanks to Tammy Parks of Howe, Oklahoma, for getting me involved with this GREAT summer learning opportunity for teachers. After my presentation, Dr. Syb (“The Multimedia…

  • Share your ideas and stories with our next U.S. President: Barack Obama

    Thanks to a tweeted encouragement from Lisa Linn, I learned about this request from Barack Obama for policy ideas and suggestions as he continues to form his leadership team: MYPOLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK? The best, most comprehensive plan for change in our country will include your ideas and your feedback. America needs a president…

  • Our next U.S. Secretary of Education

    The following is not exactly the letter Dr. Scott McLeod asked for awhile back in his post, “Edublogger letters to the next President,” but it hits near the mark for me. This is my comment to the USNWR blog post today by Eddy Ramírez, “Who Should Be the Nation’s Next Education Chief?” Of the options…

  • Are teachers in your building parallel players?

    In her June 21, 2007, article “Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession” for WorldChanging, Suzie Boss discussed how many teachers seem to be stuck in professional learning and interaction behaviors which resemble “parallel play” for young children. She wrote: Roland Barth, founding director of the Principals’ Center at Harvard University suggested in Educational Leadership last year…

  • Learning should be an invitation, not a mandate

    Marc Prensky, in his recent article in the Feb/Mar issue of EduTopia, “Programming: The New Literacy,” makes a persuasive case for helping learners of ALL ages master a key element of the new literacies of the 21st century: Programming. The following paragraph near the end of his piece really caught my attention: Our machines are…