i had the great opportunity to see thomas friedman speak on friday in downtown mpls. a few of our students won an essay contest, giving them the opportunity to go, and i lucked out and got to go along for the ride. i figured that i had a pretty good angle in going, besides my [...]

At 71, Physics Professor is a Web Star
Professor Lewin’s videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have won him devotees across the country and beyond who stuff his e-mail in-box with praise.
If the rising tide lifts all boats, I hope that education around the world can be [...]

I gave the following speech at our school’s chapel on Tuesday in preparation for loosening the Internet filters a bit. I built it around a recent op-ed by Thomas Friedman entitled “The Whole World is Watching“.

It’s 1995, and I’m a skinnier, geekier version of myself. I’m holding a 3.5” floppy disk in my fingers, and [...]

I’m back home in Mpls after my trip out to San Diego for two conferences. My couch has never felt so comfortable!
The second conference I attended was the iSummit conference held by the Coalition of Lighthouse Schools. This was the second time I have attended iSummit, and it was again a great conference. Part of [...]

This being my first time at a large, education and technology conference, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Honestly, I expected a lot of superfluous crap on the vendor floor, and I got that. It was disheartening to see scores of people milling around presentations for little clicker devices, rigid software, and tablet PCs [...]

I am feeling the swell of information and excitement today after a series of great sessions.
The keynote speech today was given by Nicholas Negroponte, creator of the one laptop per child initiative. It was very exciting sitting in the audience and hearing him describe the transformative power of placing this tool to connect with the [...]

I’ve been working a lot lately on trying to articulate my message about what myspace is all about and what my response is when asked about it (or asked about filtering it).
Then, I came across this post at Ed-Tech Insider in my newsreader that sums it up nicely:
It isn’t just MySpace.com that we need to [...]