Gender Gaps

November 9, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany.

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Internet Safety

November 6, 2007 – 12:25 pm

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety
As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.

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NH’s Virtual Learning Academy

September 19, 2007 – 10:21 pm

The CEO of NH’s first online-only, distance education high school expects about 700 students to enroll in its first semester, to start in January. So says a report at NHPR.
high school, virtual learning academy, new hampshire, education, distance education, online education

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Dawn Of The Citizen Professor?

April 10, 2007 – 12:06 pm

It should be no surprise that journalists are talking about citizen journalism, but what of the disintermediation of other industries?
Man-on-the-street Mark Georgiev told Marketplace:
I didn’t want a certificate, I didn’t want any kind of accreditation, I really just wanted the knowledge. And I also wanted to work at my own pace.
Georgiev, the story explains, has [...]

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Cut And Paste Is A Skill Too

April 9, 2007 – 12:38 pm

[Update: Keith pointed out that my small disclaimer at the end isn't clear enough. This post is copied, stolen, cut and pasted in its entirety from Keith's blog, ISTP Dad. I was glad to learn of the story, and this was meant to be ironic and funny.]
An editorial in the Washington Post is explicit about [...]

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Our Responsibility: Teach Our Children How To Talk Like A Pirate Early For Future Success

September 19, 2006 – 12:03 am

There’s no question that the video mentioned this morning is valuable resource for all of us, but our responsibility to our nation’s future demands more. The good folks at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth NH are an example to us all with their series of instructional sessions in preparation for Talk Like A Pirate Day.
arrrr, [...]

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Education America

July 5, 2006 – 4:23 pm

Today I discovered (thank you Ryan) Kareem Elnahal’s speech as valedictorian of Mainland Regional High School and I discovered new hope, new faith in our country’s future. When high school students can step up and speak truth to power, as Elnahal did so well, I become a believer in the strength of human spirit. ?We [...]

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Higher Ed Blog Con (and other things I should have posted about last month)

May 2, 2006 – 10:41 pm

I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. It had sections on teaching, libraries, CRM, and web development. (Aside: why must we call it ?admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing? instead of the easier to swallow ?CRM??)
The ?events? are over, but everything is online, and most [...]

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NMC’s 2006 Horizon Report

February 12, 2006 – 3:02 pm

I’d never heard of the New Media Consortium before, but they claim a mission to ?advocate and stimulate the use of new learning and creative technologies in higher education.? Anyway, their 2006 Horizon Report identifies the following trends among those shaping the role of technology in education:

Dynamic knowledge creation and social computing tools and processes [...]

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Teachers Get Paid Crap

September 28, 2005 – 6:43 am

From AlterNet: Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream. Tagline:
Many public school teachers today must work two jobs to survive, and can’t afford to buy homes or raise families. Why do we treat our teachers so poorly?

tags: america, education, impossible dream, jobs, low pay, poor salary, public education, public ignorance, public school, public school teachers, school [...]

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The Mystifying Aroma Of Rot

June 12, 2005 – 1:34 am

I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread):
That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books [...]

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