Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The week’s Time cover story is an extension of our discussion about updating our schools. The writer of How To Bring Our Schools Out Of The 20th Century makes many of the same points about our American educational system and the critical nature of some of the problems we face in the 21st century. Definitely worth a read.

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Friday, December 08, 2006

During Ed Barlow’s presentation at LCTI, he mentioned the need for us and our students to have a “virtual desktop”—a place where we go to learn keep up-to date on things in our field. The idea resonated with me because I consider my Bloglines account to be one aspect of my own “virtual desktop.” Related to that, the EduBlog nominations came out today. If you are looking for some good educational blogs, you might want to check out their list of nominations. Awards will be announced on Sunday, December 17.

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Monday, December 04, 2006

It will be interesting following the comments to this post on David Warlick’s blog. I like Vicki Davis’s suggestion for us to all set up Bloglines accounts. I must say, I have read about more thought provoking ideas on blogs than in many books. Books are great, but blogs are so much more immediate for me. We’ll get more into this at our December 19 goals meeting.

What books do you think are ”must reads” for administrators that will help us negotiate the changing landscape of education?

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Sunday, December 03, 2006

More and more, I read about how technology can help transform what we need to do in education. This article, Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0, reports on a talk by John Seely Brown at a recent conference at MIT.

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