Tools Retrograde
For the 12th year in a row, Jane Hart is once again asking professionals to vote on their own top tools for learning. I always look forward to Jane’s call for votes…as it provides an opportunity for me to reflect on my own use. Last year’s compilation can be found here. My post last year […]
My Facebook Scandal Podcast
I was honored to be asked by Vicki Davis – a.k.a. CoolCatTeacher – to join her in one of her 10-Minute Teacher Podcasts. We talked about the recent Facebook scandal and lessons we should take from it as educators. Social media is a daily presence in the lives of our students, our colleagues, and our […]
Hard and Necessary
I have not seen the report yet (it is a bit pricey for us adjuncts), but there was an interesting post in the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning on a new report on the future of learning and the potential impact this will have on college classrooms. Beckie Supiano interviewed Beth McMurtrie on this […]
A Little b Blogger
Jeff Nugent, now Director of Learning and Applied Innovation at Colgate University, used to talk to Bud Deihl and I over coffee about synchronicity, noting that themes…particularly on the web…seemed to surface at the same time. The one for me this week was “little b blogging.” Cogdog started it off for me, noting that “…after […]
CFT’s and a Bias for Action
I have been posting about Centers For Teaching (CFT’s) as Centers for Excellence, inspired by my current reading of Tom Peters’ new book The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last. I discussed Chapters 1-4 here and Chapters 5-8 here. This post deals with Chapters 9-12, which cover […]
CFT’s and Lifelong Learning
Last week, I posted about Centers For Teaching (CFT’s) as Centers for Excellence, inspired by my current reading of Tom Peters’ new book The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last. As I noted, I have been reading Peters since his original 1982 bestseller that he co-wrote with […]
CFT’s as Centers for Excellence
I am currently reading Tom Peters’ new book The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last. I have been reading Peters since his original 1982 bestseller that he co-wrote with Robert Waterman, In Search of Excellence. In many ways, Peters’ search for “excellence” mirrored the national movement in […]
My Cracked Rose Colored Glasses
I am … and have always been… an optimist. I am a glass half full kind of person. So I tend to see the opportunities more than the perils. Alas, now there is Facebook…. Over the past few weeks, a firestorm has erupted over news that Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on […]
It May Be Coincidence But
… Pi Day. Einstein’s birthday. Stephen Hawking’s death. 3.14 does seem mystical! One of Hawking’s quotes that seems appropriate today: “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.” […]
Connecting Some Dots
Sometimes you just don’t get to your Feedly in a timely manner…so this morning, I looked back at about 8 days worth of blogs. Some great posts, but what interested me was some of the connections my mind began to make in this week-plus dive into the blogosphere. First, Lisa Lane wrote a provocative piece […]
