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What Makes a Great Teacher
Monday, February 1st, 2010“For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels [...]
Block all the Blogs!
Friday, March 6th, 2009This is a true story of a teacher in a highly regarded southern N.H. H.S. which is also a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools.
Student: “Hey, Dave, we can’t get to our Wellness blog. We were going to post our plyometric training routine but the server is timing out. It was working yesterday.”
Dave: “Let [...]
Academic Affairs Technology Plan at Keene State College
Thursday, December 18th, 2008After laboring over the academic affairs technology plan for over a year, through many iterations, we’re finally done. Or at least done until its annual review.
Have a peek. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not about technology. Really, it’s not. It’s about learning, teaching, and work.
Go on, have a look.
Keene State College Academic [...]
Reno POD conference
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I returned from the 2008 POD conference in Reno, Nevada on Sunday night and am pretty wiped today (Professional and Organizational Development Network – http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/2008/index.htm). POD was crawling with academic ‘rock-stars’ such as Dee Fink, Milt Cox, and Terry Doyle; it was not quite like a celebrity sighting but it was pretty cool to rub [...]
Annual reports on my mind
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Wow, it’s July….JULY…already! It’s time for reflection and annual reports.
So much has happened at KSC that it’s hard to take a fair inventory of the changes that have happened over the year. Listing them hardly seems interesting. Singling out one, two, or even five events subtly means that something left out is somehow less significant. [...]
411 on academic technology
Friday, April 11th, 2008So today was the day that the ATSC (academic technology steering committee) held an information forum on the college’s Academic Technology Vision that Mike Caulfield (http://mikecaulfield.com), Irene Herold, and I drafted last fall. The idea is that the document will help inform requests, initiatives, and plans involving academic technology so that they align [...]
Is Technology Integration What We Really Want?
Monday, October 1st, 2007So I’ve been doing this for a number of years now (doing = working with technology in higher education and earning a Masters in Teaching with Technology) – and have come to the conclusion that I’ve been championing the wrong approach. I’ve been patient with the slow pace of technology adoption but frustrated that the [...]
Can a Question About Blogs Really Be That Controversial?
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007I just finished reading an interesting blog post by David Warlick (check out 2 Cents Worth) who has taken a hit by some in the blogosphere for lauding the use of blogs in education. The comments against Warlick are revealing and an example of the road blocks that prevent meaningful integration of technology [...]
Skills Gap for the Digital Natives….Really?
Thursday, September 6th, 2007There is a lot of buzz around campus these days about digital natives getting technology. We witnessed students texting, taking pictures with their cells, IM’ing, asking about online access to….X, the list goes on. If “getting it” means using it then it’s true. Natives see technology as a transparent means of communicating, finding information and [...]