GOOD has an interesting infographic out about teachers’ views of technologies. Many are optimitstic about educational technology, but the survey shows that many aren’t ready to give up their textbooks, yet. My reaction to this is because a textbook is an easy on-hand resource while in every school that I have been educational technology is [...]
“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible” –Javier Salecedo I have a friend who teaches 9th Grade English. He is a gifted poetry teacher and made a fantastic poetry wiki for his students to use for his poetry unit in class that seriously makes my poetry unit from last year look like too [...]
I don’t frequent the Huffington Post often, but this Tom Vander Ark piece on revising NCLB is good reading and goes well with my series on fixing No Child Left Behind. He rightly notes that NCLB exists because “school boards (and state boards) allowed generations of chronic failure.” This is correct, and education reformers that [...]
