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Thanks to Lillie Marshall for this great Picture! Yesterday I was privileged to help organize, along with Dan Callahan , Laura D'elia , Tracy Sokalosky and Karen Janowski , the second annual edCamp Boston . It was a great day! We had a record attendance Read More...
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As we continue to explore the possibility of becoming a 1:1 iPad school, I am starting to put together my arguments in favor of this adoption. Here are some of my thoughts so far. I would welcome your feedback on this document! Why 1 to 1? In a digital Read More...
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EdcampIS Organizers Introduction I just returned from Seattle where I helped to run edcampIS , an unconference for independent school educators following the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference . If you read my blog or know me, Read More...
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if the snow doesn't stop me. This would be the one storm of the entire winter, on the day I am flying to Seattle for two great conferences, the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference (NAISAC12) and the first Independent School edcamp Read More...
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I attended an interesting workshop about digital ethics, given by Katie Davis , a youth and digital media scholar based at Harvard Project Zero . I am always searching for digital citizenship resources that acknowledge the positives of student use of Read More...
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Lisa & Liz Presenting at Educon 2.4 There is always so much to think about on the way home from Educon. And this year was no different. As I sit home unraveling my experience, I am feeling a mix of emotions. As always it was wonderful to see my old Educon Read More...
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At my first Educon 2008 This will be my fifth Educon, and over time, my relationship with this conference has changed, from the freshman excitement of meeting everyone for the first time at Educon 2.0 , to the highly anticipated sophomore year, when I Read More...
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First semester has just ended and I am finally taking a breath and a moment to blog. I know it has been forever. I've been in the thick of teaching 7th grade English and setting up an iPad pilot for our school. Both have been extremely time consuming. Read More...
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I was ready to love it. I put my name on the list the day it was announced. I waited and waited. When it finally shipped, I tracked that shipment like a hawk. Then it arrived. My school has recently decided to do an iPad pilot. We are deploying 30 iPads Read More...
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“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/derbaum/14504516/ - The Media is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects . McLuhan & Fiore. p74 Everything we look at is shaped by our experiences. Read More...
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The front page of today's New York Times boasted an article about the "failure" of technology in the classroom. Titled, In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores , the article describes a school in Arizona where, despite a huge investment in technology, Read More...
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This summer my entire faculty read the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. The book lays out some clear ideas for how to make change in an organization. The authors use a metaphor of an elephant, suggesting there Read More...
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On Monday, July 25th Lisa Thumann and I are facilitating our 4th Edubloggercon Unconference. It will be held at the Park Plaza Hotel, thanks to the generosity of Alan November, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Come all day or just for part of it. (If you want to Read More...
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A student at my school was diagnosed with cancer last year. He has just started a blog and wrote to me a few weeks ago to ask if I could give him advice on how to get more readers. I suggested that one of the ways would be for me to share a link to his Read More...
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I just finished reading The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore . Published in 1967, it is a prescient work, predicting with amazing accuracy the effects of technology on our lives. Here are a few quotes Read More...
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