State report shows many students are not ready for college - Boston.com
From today’s ASCD SmartBrief, a report that while some 80% of Massachusetts high school grads go on to college, 37% of them are ill prepared and require remediation.  The article quotes a higher ed official and a NJ department of ed official about the […]

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A colleague posted a link to the TED 2008 video about the Worldwide Telescope. What a fabulous project!
Her video led me to the TED website. What an amazing collection of videos of smart people thinking about the issues of our world. I chose the technology topic and found this video of Peter Gabriel […]

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So, here’s one of those weird conjunctions of old and new technologies. The website is called Flashcard Friends and allows users to create, tag, and share sets of flashcards. The cards can include audio, video, and images. I did a quick browse and found everything from Spanish to medicine. As someone […]

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This is a perfect example of leadership skills in the 21st century. These students know how to take advantage of the media that is available to them. The video below is just terrific!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS4HjWGVZB4&rel=1]
There are also two websites set up:
http://www.tribeunited.com
http://www.wrengateblog.com

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Marc Fisher - College Got What It Signed Up For - washingtonpost.com
This is a bit off topic from educational technology and media, but I think this editorial does a good job of summing up what happened to Gene Nichol.  I am very disappointed in my college right now.  But, I am very proud of Nichol […]

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Today I am doing a workshop for principals about integrating technology. This is the third workshop with this group: they’ve had the big picture (globalization, 21st century skills), been introduced to some Web 2.0 tools, and now the job is to put all that together and figure out what it looks like in the […]

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I haven’t signed the pledge but the video is very compelling. And, I certainly agree that I would like to hear A LOT more about education from the candidates.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ914OsW2-4&rel=1]

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No Limits
An excellent article from my colleague, Sheryl Nussbaum Beach.  I’m am becoming increasingly convinced that getting technology into schools in powerful ways in going to happen one classroom, one teacher, and one school at a time.  And, the best way for that to happen is the way Sheryl is doing it and the way […]

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I was poking around the web and found Bartleby’s amazing collection of The Harvard Classics.  The cornerstone of the collection is Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography.  The introductory note linked below outlines Franklin’s many accomplishments from printer to writer to farmer to researcher.  He demonstrated lots of 21st century skills!  But he did it in the 18th […]

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