Should Teenagers Expect Privacy on the Internet?
When it comes to social media, teenagers look at privacy in very different ways than the adults around them. Read Full Post >
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March 12, 2013
Fire Teachers...Give Kids iPads?
Education and learning is so much more than firing teachers and replacing them with iPads. Read Full Post >
March 03, 2013
Are Your Students Learning Ready?
If students are learning ready, it means they are prepared for every challenge that comes their way. Read Full Post >
October 10, 2012
Not Good At Math? There's a Museum For That!
Recently I read an article based on the book Faster Isn't Always Smarter (2009) by Cathy Seeley. Seeley stated, "Certainly as part of a complete and balanced mathematics program it is useful to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly, and it is important to know basic addition and mul... Read Full Post >
October 10, 2012
Resisting Technology Is Soooo 20th Century
If you believe that technology is a distraction and not a way to enhance educational practices, you're probably not using it correctly. • Why do we have to talk about technology so much? • I'm too busy to use it. • Isn't Twitter for Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift? • Can't we j... Read Full Post >
October 01, 2012
Does Your School Culture Encourage Risk-Taking or Rule Following?
If principals build a school culture where their teachers can take risks, teachers will be more apt to have classrooms where risk taking is encouraged. Yesterday, most of the staff and students in our school district wore blue to Stomp Out Bullying. Students entered school with their homemade shirt... Read Full Post >
September 20, 2012
In BYOT It's the Y and O That Matters
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear...It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson A few years ago, I stood in front of all of ou... Read Full Post >
September 11, 2012
Flipping Parent Communication?
"Too often we leave our communication to monthly newsletters or school wide e-mails. There are many changes happening in education, so flipping the communication I have with parents offered me an opportunity to let them know what is going on." The flipped classroom model has been all the rage in s... Read Full Post >
September 01, 2012
The Flipped Faculty Meeting
Principals set the tone every day and the flipped model could represent a symbolic way of telling adults that we still have to be innovative, and it's really hard for a principal to preach innovation if they aren't using it in the venues they lead. Faculty meetings are as good or as bad as we want... Read Full Post >
August 13, 2012
Are Schools Prepared to Let Students BYOD?
"Districts wading into the "bring-your-own-technology," or BYOT, waters are wrangling with which issues should be tackled through districtwide policy, and which should fall under school-level procedural codes. In the process, they're trying to leave room to solve unanswered legal questions about Int... Read Full Post >
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