How Do You Manage Your Classroom?

Children Are Not Born Bad

Teachers Inspire Me

Why Educators Should Read Seth Godin

Why should a teacher or any other educational leader read Seth Godin? There are two compelling reasons as far as I’m concerned:
1- He talks (writes) common sense.
2- He insists on evidence as a driving force for decision making and change.
Nearly every blog post he writes and every paragraph in his [...]

How To Talk About Global Warming

Growing Up Online

Teens, Identity and Growing Up Online

A hot topic of this blog is the way students learn today. And the way they play. Increasingly, it is digital. Social relationships can and do start online. Homework can be completed online, etc. Tonight (coming January 22, 2008), FRONTLINE examines a generation of children “Growing Up Online”.
MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Nearly [...]

DON’T TELL ME, E-MAIL ME!

It’s funny. Some conversations are better off being had online. And yet, so many who haven’t yet adopted new paradigms of communication insist that content-rich information be shared offline.
Much information in the workplace can and should be shared via e-mail. This information would contain detailed, thought-out directives and instructions. This information [...]

Schools 2.0: Collaboration, Learning, Pedagogy

Free Markets and Education Change