Create a single place that students and parents can go for all of their school-related messages. When they think school, they can go there and be sure to find school-related messages.
graduation is nearly upon us this year, and I just found this speech by David Foster Wallace. Worth a listen. THIS IS WATER – By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo.
The best programs draw people who majored as undergraduates in the subjects they wanted to teach; focus on extensive clinical practice rather than on classroom theory; are selective in choosing their applicants rather than treating students as a revenue stream; and use data about how their students fare as teachers to assess and revise their […]
Revolution Hits the Universities – NYTimes.com: “My opening discussion of C. Wright Mills’s classic 1959 book, ‘The Sociological Imagination,’ was a close reading of the text, in which I reviewed a key chapter line by line. I asked students to follow along in their own copies, as I do in the lecture hall. When I […]
I finally had a chance to see Jeff Utecht at the ISACS conference recently. I’ve been a long-time reader of his blog but I still love to hear people present in person. Really? It’s My Job To Teach Technology? “We are not teaching technology, we are teaching skills that every student needs to have and […]
the world of education is a slow moving beast, but watching the internet devour the newspaper might provide an interesting parallel to what could happen to “education” should we ever really unleash the internet on schools “School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. […]
Now we’re trying the same trick with collaborative social technology, applying digital socialism to a growing list of wishes—and occasionally to problems that the free market couldnt solve—to see if it works. So far, the results have been startling. At nearly every turn, the power of sharing, cooperation, collaboration, openness, free pricing, and transparency has […]
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