Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I’m writing this morning from the Blogger’s Cafe at ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. I’m looking forward to three days of learning and thinking and conversation with lots of smart folks from all over doing interesting work to improve teaching and learning with technology. But I’d be lying to myself if I didn’t remember that […]
Read More Crap Detection: #ISTE11I had the chance to write this morning with friends and colleagues from the . They were kind enough to let me come speak with them about some of the things I’m wondering about when it comes to writing and technology lately. Our prompt, at one point, was taken from a comment Claudia left here the […]
Read More Wondering Vulnerably in PublicRichard Elmore: I wonder, finally, what would happen if we simply opened the doors and let the students go; if we let them walk out of the dim light of the overhead projector into the sunlight; if we let them decide how, or whether, to engage this monolith? Would it be so terrible? Could it […]
Read More Letting (Them) GoRediscovered these lines from Angelo Patri while in a conversation today. Good to see them again: What we needed as children was someone to show the way. Someone who knew us and valued us. Someone who would live with us and for us. What we needed as children, children still need. The teachers and I, […]
Read More Patri: What we needed as children, children still need.Saw this at Dean’s place: It doesn’t take much to take down IT workers, the uphill battle is keeping them motivated and fighting the good fight. Bill’s comment was a good reminder. It’s easy to cast the Others, especially the ones you don’t know and haven’t met, be they IT or Administration or Parents or […]
Read More IT People Are People, Too.Dear Friends ((I’m emailing this to pretty much everyone I’ve ever known. I’m posting it here and everywhere else I can because I don’t yet have everyone’s email address. It’s a big world. Feel free to share this with whomever you’d like. I’d consider it a favor if you would.)): I’m doing something that I […]
Read More A #blog4nwp in Which I Ask for Your Assistance. Urgently.Dear Representative Gardner: We’ve not yet met, although I’ve attempted to introduce myself to you several times via Twitter. My name’s Bud Hunt, and you represent me in the House of Representatives. I live in Fort Collins and am proud to share the state of Colorado with you. While I didn’t vote for you, I […]
Read More An Open Letter to Congressman Cory Gardner – Restore Funding for the National Writing ProjectBecause American schools are places of democracy, where we model for our children the best of what we can be. And when we disagree, we sit at the table together and work through the issues. That’s what grownups do. That’s why. I do not belong to my association, as I am not eligible for membership. […]
Read More Why Teachers Like Me Support UnionsIt’s funny. ((Or kind of sad.)) I’ve been working with some folks to write about the centennial of English Journal, which is this year. One hundred years of writing about teaching and learning language arts. We’ve been focusing on the way that technology has been addressed in past issues of EJ, looking back at articles […]
Read More Still Nothing New Under the Sun. We Pretend Otherwise.Chad Sansing suggested that this weekend would be a good weekend to #blog4nwp, to tell the stories of the work of the and its 200 plus network sites. Okay. Here’s one of mine. You can read others in my . I never had the fortune to meet Jim Gray. But his fingers are all over […]
Read More There's No One Coming. That's Okay. A #blog4nwp