Now that I’ve defended and have at least a rough draft of my lit review, I can think about next semester when I will be teaching a two-credit “technology” course for pre-service teachers.  I have taught the course in various iterations over the past four years, starting with a pretty traditional course and eventually moving […]

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Read this after I posted this morning: Rescue reading - The Boston Globe
Here’s the NEA report that started all the discussion.
Then, I remembered the street banner I saw when I was in Scranton recently about the Scranton Reads! program.
Mostly, I’m even more confused about the definition of words “reading” and “books” and “literacy”.  Text, albeit […]

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21st Century Collaborative: The Future of Reading
Sheryl’s thoughtful posts always provide an interesting read.  Her essay on reading, in response to Amazon’s much heralded debut of the Kindle, took on a topic I’ve also been thinking about.  As she did, I’ll give you my “reading” biography: I LOVE to read anything, analog or digital, but […]

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Eduwonk.com: Performance Pay…The New Vouchers!
So, the rise in discussions of performance pay is not just my imagination.  Be sure to read the comments that try to distinguish between performance pay and merit pay.  Seems that the former is more acceptable to teacher unions.

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For just a mere $3 million dollars, the feds are going to do what decades of researchers have not been able to: tell us the best way to use technology in the classroom.  Indiana University gets the money, and by April 2009, they’re planning to tell us just how it should be done, according to […]

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I’ve been arguing in my writing–both candidacy paper and literature review–that we (researchers, administrators, policy makers, etc.) need to adopt a new view of teachers as professionals, people who actually know what they are doing, people who work in incredibly complex environments.  This is not really th kind of job that would seem to be […]

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I’m defending my candidacy paper next week.  I don’t think it’s terrible, but I just now had the flash about what I really wanted to say: the big picture.  Ideas about teacher planning are changing in ways that may relate to the way ideas about planning are changing in the business world.  But I don’t […]

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Found a link to this video in my delicious account: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=40c570a322f1b0b65909
I don’t really disagree with any of the sentiments expressed. After all, it simply asks questions, encouraging educators to think about their practice. But I do think there is an implied criticism, perhaps. One question asks, “What do your students create?” […]

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Thanks to Tim at Assorted Stuff for introducing me to Gary Stager.  He’s been saying everything I always wanted to about the techno-evangelists:
I’ve long been concerned by the educational technology pundits, Web 2.0pians as I like to call them, who herald every new web app as not only an earth-shaking revelation, but the end of […]

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