Summer transitions
Two transitions are on my mind today. First, a short drive in the last hour was probably the last time this summer I will sit by my son as he drives to his volunteer hours at the local animal shelter. Assuming he passes his road test in the very near future, he’ll have a driver’s […]
Public protests are not policy workshops
I’m not at the Save our Schools march today in D.C. but I am reading coverage (including the Twitter feed for #sosmarch). I think a number of observers such as John Merrow and Patrick Riccards are both right and wrong in arguing that the march organizers don’t have specifics to carry an argument. It is true […]
Notes on tech-based teaching-tinkering
With considerable hyperbole floating around about the “transformative” or “disruptive” technologies possible in education, I’m going to record a few of the experiments I have tried in the past few years in my classes. ((I have not yet read Rick Hess’s paper, Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning, and this is about my experiences teaching […]