Blog Juice for Educational Technology

A while back, I subscribed to the RSS feed for the comments on 2¢ Worth so that I could be notified when people had added conversation to any of my blog entries.  When it happens, I just click from the aggregator into the blog so that I can follow the thread from the original entry.
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I’m on my way out the door, but this just popped into my aggregator.  It may have been there for a while, just hiding.  But the latest findings from the PEW Internet & American Life Project are interesting.
Pew Internet: Parent and Teen Internet Use:
Parents today are less likely to say that the internet has been […]

Yesterday, I described how residents of San Diego County, who utilized the North County Times’ online discussion tools to call for and deliver needed news about conditions in their neighborhoods.  It was a different kind of journalism that emerged out of a traditional journalism.  It was resourceful and ruthless learning.
Another example occurs to me.  I’ve […]

Several days ago, I received a voice mail from a newspaper reporter who wanted to talk about social networking.  I was working a conference at the time, and with sessions, meetings, and evening banquets, I was not able to return his call until I reached the airport, two days later.  His name was Gary Warth, […]

I’m currently planning (in my head so far) a presentation and extended workshop on personal learning networks. There are a couple of questions that are rolling around in my head right now, that I’d like to cast out into this cauldron of perspectives.
The questions are:
In what ways are personal learning networks like […]

I have a general rule about my public speaking.  Don’t follow kids — and never follow a school board member who’s just read The World is Flat.  After my experiences at the New York State School Board’s Association conference in NYC this week, I have a new one.  Don’t follow The Fonz!
Henry Winkler (actor, director, […]

A Flickr Group that I belong to, the offices of edubloggers.  We love what we do.  We probably love where we do it.

As I said in an earlier blog entry (Bring you Heart with You), I spoke at a business conference earlier this week.  The topic was mostly about the millennial generation as your employees […]

A lovely picture I took early that morning outside my hotel room…

I’ve not been able to write the last few days for a couple of reasons, not the least of which was getting seriously lagged out from too many days on the west coast.  It’s a terrible feeling, when I plant myself on the sofa […]

Perhaps one of the most contentious aspects of my country’s No Child Left Behind legislation is how it measures the success of education reform — high-stakes, standardized tests, developed by state departments of education, based on state standards.  There is nothing inherently  wrong with wanting to assure that every child is mastering basic literacy and […]

I’ve not been looking forward to this weekend as much as I guess I should.  Yesterday, I was at the Cybercitizenship  Summit at Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, and on Tuesday, I’ll be in San Diego.  So rather than spend more than half a day on planes and in airports flying home, I’m just camped out in […]

I had a great day, yesterday, at Kent Denver School, on the edge of the rolling plains of Denver, Colorado.  It was a beautiful campus that blended perfectly into the rural landscape.  The first thing I did was to moderate a conversation with parents about schooling, the future, video games, cyber safety, etc.  “Maybe I […]

Short blog — hopefully lots of conversation…
I’m on my way out again for a number of gigs due west of here (Raleigh).  Among them with be an information ethcis summit I’ll be working with in San Francisco, sponsored by CTAP and Yahoo.
When I am talking about contemporary literacy to audiences, nothing causes so many heads […]

Lately, I have had a number of opportunities to speak to education leaders: superintendents, school board members, and yesterday, to district curriculum and technology leaders, mostly from Long Island, New York.  It was the 2020 Vision Now Summit, held in Melville, NY.  The audience was predominantly district superintendents, assistant superintendents, and some directors of technology. […]