Category: Comment

Research: Can Teachers Identify AI Writing?

An article came across my timeline this afternoon titled "Do teachers spot AI? Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student ess... Read more

Firefox After a Month

Earlier this year, I switched to Firefox as my main browser on any machine which supports it. My workstation at school as well as my phone are my p... Read more

I Hope The Expanse Returns

I just finished watching the final series of The Expanse on Amazon Prime last night and I'm really hoping they continue the story. If you're not fa... Read more

Delightful New Feeds

I took some time this morning to go through ooh.directory and add some personal blogs to my feed reader. Nothing in particular, just things that we... Read more

Not Being on EduTwitter

I jumped off of Twitter several months ago and haven't really participated in anything specifically education-related on social media. Maybe this i... Read more

How Many? How Long?

School Shootings Another week in the US has another school shooting. As of writing, that is 13 fatal incidents on school grounds since January 1, 2... Read more

Mastodon is Not a Twitter Replacement

The great Twitter Migration is causing all sorts of hype around Mastodon, but, in my opinion, for the wrong reasons. People disillusioned with Twit... Read more

Dealing with Bad Questions

...not all questions are created equal and some questions inhibit learning. Source: Yes, There is Such a Thing as a Bad Question — Teachers Going G... Read more

New law will require Indiana high schoolers to take US citizenship test - FOX59

The new law in Indiana doesn’t say that students have to pass the test, but it does require them to take it to be able to graduate. Source: New law... Read more

KQED on Active Engagement, Not Compliance

More than that, the characteristics should be observable to anyone who walks into the room. We work hard with our teachers to make sure they're cha... Read more

The role of the faculty in the post-LMS world (opinion)

However, working outside the LMS, well-trained instructors will be able to do far more than meet the minimal requirements for moving college course... Read more

Glaringly “For-Profit”

Audrey Watters shared a Bloomberg article this morning on Silicon Valley-based AltSchool which is closing locations to focus on “strategy” and a “p... Read more

Indiana Education Paired Texts

March 2017 – Indiana to lose $56 million in public school funding under Trump budget September 2017 – Indiana receives $59 million grant to expand ... Read more

Teach Like a Teacher

Teaching is being overrun by impostors. Perhaps I’m reading into something, but the explosion of “Teach Like a [thing]” culture scares me. Cultural... Read more

Losing Stories

Startup culture ate one of my stories this year and I just found out about it this week. I check for broken links on my blog. It’s mainly because I... Read more

Natural Consequences

This is the hardest part of teaching, if you ask me. What are the natural consequences of not completing a task in the given amount of time? It sta... Read more

Funny Money

How much money do we spend to go to conferences? A few hundred, easily. How much money do we spend on tools, apps, programs, and resources to use i... Read more

The New Education Economy of “Free”

Have you ever been leading a session and been faced with the statement, “That’s great, but what does it cost?” The new economics of education rely ... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: You May Be One

My previous three posts looked at ideas from John Spencer’s book Sages and Lunatics. I could go deeper because it is full of great discussion point... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Blogs as the New EduText

This is the third post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics. Most of the books are practical manuals on how to run a classro... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Danger in the Classroom

This is the second post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics The machete was dangerous that day. There is power that comes w... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Teacher as Identity

This is the first post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics. A report came out in early May with data showing college studen... Read more

Talk, talk, talk

Twitter mailase has set in big time. Twitter is dying! No, it’s just beginning! *I’m not sure I can really explain my own confusion or mixed feelin... Read more

Khan Academy and the Missed Opportunity

I went to CUE 2014 this year in Palm Springs, Cali. If you’re not familiar with the conference, it’s the largest regional education conference on t... Read more

The SAT is Changing! (But Not Really)

The edtech land is losing their minds of the second major revision to the SAT in nine years’ time. In case you missed it. Horray! The SAT is finall... Read more

Listening Past the TED Talk

I watched a TEDxBeaconStreet talk the other evening entitled “Reimagining Learning.” It started off well enough, with some good points about the ch... Read more

Mental Barriers to Change

I was at EdCampBLC this morning in a session talking about “transformative change,” whatever that means. A lot of the discussion focused on how we ... Read more

The Unanticipated Problem with Testing

If you live in Indiana, and if you have children (or have friends with children), you may have noticed some headlines yesterday: ISTEP computer gli... Read more

What Headlines Missed

You may have missed this story out of California last week. A student brought a shotgun to school with the intent of killing some other students wh... Read more

Let’s Forget EdTech in 2013

I want to propose something crazy: I think we talk too much about education technology. I’m guilty of it, and it’s been weighing on me over Christm... Read more

Twitter, We’re on a Break

` `__I’m going to take a hiatus from Twitter. I love sharing learning with my network. Lately... Read more

The Point of Learning

I don’t mean the “point” of learning in why we need to learn. I mean the actual cognitive place we must find in order to learn. This year has been ... Read more

Moving the Flipped Class

I have not written for almost two weeks now. Half of the reason is because of writer’s block, another half because school is crazy, and a third hal... Read more

Ugly Learning

Unfortunately, we are entrenched in an age of education that wants to be “pretty.” Students are all reaching “mastery” in every subject and they al... Read more

Supporting Students in a #Flipclass

I saw a tweet come through the feed this morning from Brad Campbell and Vanessa Alander regarding the practice of “implementing” a flipped classroo... Read more

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