But they don’t

I read this post by Scott McLeod called “We trust you with the children but not the Internet”. it’s easy to embrace it, but schools don’t trust us with their children rather they hire us (the membership in the club of us being held by each state in the form of certification) to instruct their children [...]

The Voice from the Wilderness

I begin each year asking what do I want my students to know and be able to do, not merely asking what I will teach and how. Hopefully, that decision about what to teach will be the by-product of all my thoughts and experiences as a professional, not merely referencing the many educational standards that [...]

Collaboration and Standards

I attended a session at NECC 2009 called Review of the NAEP Assessment Framework for Technological Literacy. One of my questions coming out of this session was why was the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) not at the table for this assessment framework when so many other associations are participating (ISTE, ITEA, P21, etc). [...]

‘Defining’ National Standards

A draft of the new national standards has been released (or been leaked). The general reaction is underwhelming. These national standards are everyone’s panacea for American education, but just like a balanced budget, everyone agrees on the idea but the devil is in the details. These draft standards are difficult to critique effectively because of the [...]

2012 is Coming

I attended this session at NECC 2009; Review of the NAEP Assessment Framework for Technological Literacy and I discussed some of my thoughts at my birds of a feather session yesterday on the eighth grade technology proficiency requirement. The web site for the NAEP Assessment Framework is here What I found interesting is that the current technology [...]

The Mirage of Standards

As another school year closes for many of us, ask yourself a question: How much time was spent aligning to standards and was that time well spent?  Did you align to the state standards, how about your national curricular association’s standards, don’t forget about the 21st century learning standards, and then there are the many [...]