A very wise colleague of mine and I have been working towards creating an Information Technology/Literacy curriculum for our school that can stand the test of time. The funny thing is we don’t talk about technology. The conversation always seems shifts elsewhere. In one of the recent versions of our ever developing vision statements he [...]

Another one!!! This is getting silly. The International Educator, a wildly circulated professional newspaper has made the editorial decision to put this article on it’s front page with the above title. If you read the article you will come across lines like: “The students were told at the beginning of the course that they could [...]

I just finished going through my feeds. I had over 300 unread posts to get to. Instead of methodically reading each one like I usually do, I skipped around. I read some and not others. I looked for ideas to jump out at me and rushed past them of they did not. I moved quickly, [...]

“Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops” – New York Times – May 4th, 2007 “After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting [...]