thinking about education
I taught in a small, rural school division where students still called me “ma’am” as a sign of respect. Each year, the community hosted a huge weekend festival that, over the years, had begun to attract thousands of people from all over the region. I never attended but from the stories I heard, it was [...]
Here’s why I love Twitter: I came upon this great conversation about using technology in education. Two very smart, thoughtful practitioners are exploring the role of tech, but also thinking about education in general. I’ll do a quick summary but you really should read the full posts:
Here’s the post I read first [...]
I think Tom and Jim, who blog at Bionic Teaching, are two of the freshest voices in educational blogging. I’m a little late on commenting on this post about Battledecks, a very funny and challenging powerpoint karaoke game played at the SXSW festival. What makes Tom’s post particularly helpful is he includes ideas [...]
I don’t want to push my politics on anyone, but I thought this video was a great example of a wonderful, committed, teacher at work with students that others might write off:
I rushed back to WM campus from meetings in Richmond to hear Andrew Rotherham, aka Eduwonk. I’ve told several people that his blog was directly responsible for my passing the first day of my doctoral comprehensive exams so didn’t want to miss a chance to hear him LIVE! So, here I am, a [...]
This post was supposed to discuss Chester Finn’s editorial about No Child Left Behind, which appeared in The Washington Post on Sunday. He outlines five myths about the law, taking both Republicans and Democrats to task for the way they mischaracterize the law, while providing some insight into the history of national educational reform.
I [...]