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 [...]

British Model of the Classroom of the Future

I was looking over my pictures from NECC and I came across this picture (click the picture to read the actual poster) of a poster presentation I saw that was interesting called “The British Model of the Elementary Classroom of the Future” by Erik Byker of Michigan State University.  Hopefully someone publishes his research. Often in educational [...]

Top Ten Ways to Predict the Future

Educational leaders often wonder how to prepare students for the 21st century.  The reality is that the 21st century is literally today.  Here are some ideas to help you ‘predict the future’: 1.  Advocate for Bandwidth and Hardware If there weren’t enough textbooks for a class of students how mad would you be or how much hot [...]

NECC 2009; We all win

I recently attended the NECC 2009 conference and here is what I thought: Best Session LOL@NECC – If you were there, you know why, if you weren’t there, I can’t tell you. Like Vegas, it’s better to experience it, than to share that experience. Best Moment Talking to a young student (from Georgia I believe) [...]

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 [...]