21st Century Collaborative

I had the opportunity recently to facilitate a group of business, education, political and community leaders in a discussion about developing a workforce ready group of graduates in the 21st Century. I was given the task of relaying the experience. I have decided to share with you to see if you agree or disagree with [...]

So I am on Twitter and looking at various posts. I see one about ScreenFlow and decide to Google it. I see a YouTube tutorial and decide to watch it. It is a Mac tool, but I like speaking both languages. So I click on the video above and like wow. Here is one of [...]

My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the [...]

This post may be premature as I have only seen 2/3s of the PLP Independent Schools’ team presentations of their impact journey through PLP and team projects- but I must say, Will and I were more than impressed. It was more on the level of WOW. From extensive summer institutes with a Web 2.0 registration [...]

In this day and age of school reform, many are looking to how we train teachers as the key to educational improvement. Research shows that on average school districts spend the equivalent of $200 per pupil on professional development and these learning experiences add both time and effort demands on a teachers already impossible day [...]

Crossposted over at TechLearning. Drop by and add to the conversation. Think all the buzz about school soon becoming irrelevant is just hype? Meet George Hotz, (geohot) a 17 year-old from New Jersey who blogs. What makes George significant?  He has just “unlocked” the iPhone, finding a way to get around the device’s restrictions and [...]

When conversations turn to digital literacy or netgenrs I never have to look far for examples. I have several who live in my house. Noah is my soon to be 21 year old son. He is the only boy in a family of four young adult children. He has many passions: snowboarding, fishing, gaming, reading, [...]

This podcast is the second in a series of podcasts with highly creative people. I am interested to see if there is anything to learn from creative people in terms of reforming education, especially as it relates to digital and media literacy. Amber Nussbaum is a  24 year old graphic designer for a Fortune 500 [...]

Watching my kids play Guitar Hero and was reminded of the the Pink Floyd song  ‘Another Brick in the Wall’. The   lyrics of this song contain the words “We   don’t need no education”, sung in a dirge-like tone.  Then shouting the lyrics… “Teachers,   leave those kids alone.”   This song is a [...]