September 20, 2007 – 1:13 pm
(a conversation about how pedagogy intersects with technology and why you should avoid computers in the classroom).
Dating Advice
The more I teach, the more I am concerned with my students’ choices in life and the one that seems to get in their way is that special time called dating. I’m not trying to rain on their [...]
September 20, 2007 – 12:42 pm
(Quo vadimus? or Where are we going?)
My main attitude toward using technology in the classroom is a not so much a mixed-blessing, but sometimes a necessary evil–something that once we desired, that now we’re really not sure of. In the past 10 years, “Educational Software” sales have boomed–from the electronic worksheet stacks to the cooler [...]
September 18, 2007 – 11:39 pm
When starting a business or a new venture, the common practice calls for interested and invested parties to articulate what will happen in the business. In days of old, one might have an idea, sketch out an outline, and then start doing the business. Today, though, we’ve come a long ways: today, we subject all [...]
September 16, 2007 – 10:02 pm
For those who don’t know about Twitter, lots of stuff has been written about the Web 2.0 app that asks the question “What are you doing?” The cool thing is that you get a max. of 140 characters for each response or “tweet.” Most school networks block access to the site because it is considered [...]
September 16, 2007 – 6:44 pm
My initial goal for this running season was a 3:30 time; I figured I should give it a whirl and try harder at improving my time…just to try it. Then, around the time of the Elkhart Co. 4-H fair 5K, I decided that my pace was fast enough to try to qualify for Boston: 3:20. [...]
September 12, 2007 – 12:18 am
Tonight, to make true to my promise after skimming the plan and writing about it and then making a few comments about businesses teaching education, I’m finding that most of my gut impressions were true…I’m just seeing the detail of how much economics has to play in this plan. It is, in a sense, about [...]
September 8, 2007 – 6:17 pm
I’m taking a look at my original post regarding the current technology plan for Indiana and I’m rereading the original ,pdf report. I’m beginning first of all with the occasion of the report and it looks like much of the Indiana plan comes from an organization called Partnership for 21st Century Skills (and guess how [...]
September 7, 2007 – 12:31 am
And really not sure if I need to.
