Watching Cindy Gallop’s “Make Love, Not P0rn” TED Talk (see bottom of post), I winced at some jackasses in the audience laughing at the speaker’s message. She wasn’t trying to be funny, and for good reason: that our youths are learning about sexuality from bad online p0rn is no laughing matter. Gallop uses the 5-minute [...]
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New Tech Teaching Habits
Thursday, 31 December 2009
I think this question would make either a good meme or a good open thread: What new routines have worked their way into your teaching-and-learning life as a result of the digital revolution? I’ll share a couple of mine. I think history teachers will find the first one valuable, but teachers of any discipline can [...]
Barbarians with Laptops: An Unreasonable Fear?
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
I expect to be soundly whipped for this post, but in this age of “failure being free,” I don’t mind. I hope to learn from teachers who can offer specific examples, or research, that give evidence that digital learning is superior to traditional. (Or who can contest my framing of the issue, and improve on [...]
Videos: Mental Poverty, Collaboration, “Recession Skills 101″
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Watch the two videos below — I even took notes of highlights to prod the attention-deficient — and then show them to your students. 1. Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, on Collaboration and what I’ve been calling Social Intelligence in the Workplace. Key concepts: Making co-workers look good, not bad; “plussing” your partners; wanting [...]
Resource: Teaching Students How NOT to Comment
Sunday, 27 December 2009
I was going to delete this spam, but upon reading it realized it could have been written by so many students new to commenting on blogs. So students, if your comments sound like this, consider them an epic fail: Easily, this article is really the most informative on this deserving topic. I agree with your [...]
On Using Technology Without Understanding It
Friday, 25 December 2009
This editorial from our high school student newspaper is a must-read for its criticism of the school-wide technology integration initiative. It’s a must-read for other reasons too — and other readers — but read it first, and we’ll get to that very different party afterward. The first thing I did when I read this was [...]
A New Diigo Vision and Call for Advice: On Students Teaching China to the West
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Beyond Technorati to Tweet-Link-Love, and More
Friday, 13 March 2009
I haven’t been playing with tech a lot at all these days, so maybe this is not news. But it was for me, and Holy Search Engines, Batman: From Social Media Today, 3/10/09, some fantastic toys for Twitter types who wonder how many times their blog posts have been URL-shortened, tweeted, re-tweeted, hokey-pokeyed, and tweedlededummed: [...]
Please Visit My Second Blog at Change.Org. It’s Up!
Sunday, 4 January 2009
How to “Smart Mob” against Creationism in Textbooks (video)
Monday, 8 December 2008
Picture this: enterprising students in cities in Texas, particularly, and other cities nationwide – along with counterparts in Romania, which just mandated a Creationism-only science curriculum (I kid you not), and maybe Turkey, for good measure – organize Smart Mobs to strike, peacefully and simultaneously, out of the blue to demand only 21st century science [...]






