My Wish for 2012

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis year both my mother and my brother died. It has made me stop and think very seriously about how I live my life. My niece posted this article on Facebook in December and I’ve adapted it for myself. It … Continue reading

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesAmerican public education is like WAL-MART. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic. Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model — long hours of exhaustive cramming and rote memorization … Continue reading

Future Work Skills 2020 ~ repost from Stephen’s Web

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report.   Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

Instructional Media

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a continuation of the conversation started earlier. This link looks like a good starting point – it lists a lot of important considerations related to the evaluation and selection of media. Sadly, much of it is out of … Continue reading

LA Times: Michael Hiltzik: Looking for a reason to love the iPad – latimes.com

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a link to my blog posting in the LA Times. Cool. Apparently I am one of a “sizable cadre of bloggers”… – does that count as a citation, I wonder? Michael Hiltzik: Looking for a reason to love the … Continue reading

If you fly, you can’t use their dictionary….

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesAnyone know a a good dictionary/thesaurus app I can install on my PC? I used to use the offline version of Websters, which I loved, but it is old and won’t install on my 64bit machine. Lately I’ve been using … Continue reading

How Do You Evaluate and Assess Media for Instruction?

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis question was asked on one of the LinkedIn groups (AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology) I belong to. It got me thinking…. I decided to move my part of the conversation here because the notion interests me. Here’s … Continue reading

What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? – Slashdot

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? – Slashdot. Something to think about: “By now most people have heard the news and seen the picture of the boy who was killed over the new Nike sneakers. There … Continue reading