If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been up all night catching up on my reading, which these days means feed-reading, more than anything. Two that struck a chord: 1. That LearnerBlogosphere Idea Sylvia Martinez on the red-hot GenYES blog writes several posts about getting teens [...]

“For Zeus the Helmsman laid it down as law,that we must suffer,suffer,suffer,into Truth. –Aeschylus, The Oresteia “Imprisonment of the Mind” by ccr_358 on Flickr. The first half of this post is written in the (very real) voice of an angry student wanting to “quit school.” The second half is a preview of an upcoming podcast [...]

Update on Apress. Predictable: Apress marketers of some sort came to my post giving their book (Beginning PHP and MySQL 5, 2d Ed., by W. Jason Gilmore), forum, customer service, and company a D-. [Update: I assume this because the referral was a search on Tecnhorati for "Apress book" tags, and because the next paragraph [...]

[This post is a watershed for me, stuffy as that may sound. Many loose threads needed weaving. I apologize for the tone, which I fear is typically more self-important and more harsh than I would like. I also apologize for the length. I hope you'll read it through, and thank you if you do. Update [...]

Gatto was New York Teacher of the Year in the not-so-distant past. I love his fierce, no-holds-barred diagnosis of the sickness of modern American education and educators. I discovered his writings when I started this blog in January, and quoted him on my third-ever post. I’m re-visiting him now, because his vision offers many a [...]

Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and others are discussing how to include student voices at NECC. While I admire Karl immensely, I find the scope of the idea inadequately ambitious. NECC means less (next to nothing, I would guess) to students compared to their daily school experience, and their participation in the larger world generally. They [...]