Category Archives: school reform

The Most Important Edu Website I Know: Education for Well-Being Strikes Again

May 13, 2008 – 1:59 pm

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Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as […]

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A Sunday Science Sermon

May 4, 2008 – 11:48 am

[Before I launch into the statistics, I want to urge you to watch the YouTube video at the bottom of this post. It’s a beautiful testament to the scientific method. In it, a scientist proves Darwin right on a hypothesis that, when Darwin was alive, earned him ridicule. The proof took 150 years to come […]

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For the Roses: My Latest Position on Classroom Blogging

May 1, 2008 – 5:29 am

Carolyn Foote wrote this week about the new Pew study on the effects of technology on teen writing. An article about the study in eSchool News (free subscription - well worth it - required) pulls out a few details that for me, at least, suggest some weird thinking. The “news” that
[t]eens who […]

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Diigo “Jury” Needed on 74-Comment Assessment Post Debate

April 28, 2008 – 10:41 pm

First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century:

Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo […]

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Unschooly Students on Teachers Teaching Teachers

April 28, 2008 – 6:34 am

I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen.
There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who […]

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