Saturday, February 21, 2015

Reflections on China Tour II- When the Stakes are High

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Here in the US we often talk about High Stakes tests and their impact for example the work by Berliner and colleagues. In China the conver...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Generation D- the impulse to re-engineer

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I was playing a quiet game of Candy Crush yesterday and my 8 (soon to be 9) year old son Itai came and sat next to me. For me, casual games...
Monday, February 2, 2015

First Reflcetions on our China Tour- Common Ground

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Photo Op in a First Grade Classroom Linzi, Shandong, China We came back from our China Tour two weeks ago. It was a whirlwind tour focus...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Losing Faith in Journalism- a response to "Can Students Have too Much Tech?"

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My dean directed me toward an opinion article in the prestigious New York Times by Susan Pinker . The title was "can students have too ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Aurora 1:1 or what I learned this morning

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Today we had our 13th TechEDGE conference. We spent the whole day with brave teachers in Aurora Public Schools who are integrating technolog...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Top Ten most watched videos on the Tech EDGE Channel

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A quick look at our most popular videos for 2014 shows that the topics of Apps for English learners is consistently at the top of the list ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

I'm No Bo: On Striving, Humility, and Democracy

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By now Bo Pelini and his rants are public knowledge. The thing that struck me the most about his complaints was the idea that he did not kno...