Sustainably Digital

This makes me ill. I realize that school boards are often made up of individuals who don’t personally use tools such as Facebook, instant messaging, Skype, etc. I also realize that the disconnect between personal understanding of these tools by those that determine school district policy is quite often responsible for schools to be behind [...]

Chris Lehmann recently gave a presentation titled “School 2.0: Creating the schools we need” at an IgnitePhilly event. It’s probably the best 5 minutes video clip I’ve seen online¹. I’ve never heard someone explain things I’ve grown to believe so right on. Watch it. Love it. Do it! Mr. Lehmann gives his take on the [...]

I’m going to attempt to post interesting bits I’ve found recently, both as a way to share with the community things I’ve found, and as a way to reflect upon items I’ve found. I won’t go as far to guarantee I’ll do this weekly (I’d like to), but whenever I get together 5-10 interesting items, [...]

For the last several weeks I’ve been following the story of a student teacher who has been blogging his triumphs, failures, and frustrations of his credential program and of teaching in the classroom. Recently a teacher from within his department confronted him on it with the ominous: “We, the department, know you’re blogging.¹” The blog [...]