So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an amazing journey. I don’t think I ...
(Warning: Elitist, preachy, liberal, rantish stuff ahead.) Lately, I can’t seem to get out from under the feeling that a) this country has pretty much lost its way and that b) at the end of the...
So it’s been about five years now since I wrote this to my kids: Dear Tess and Tucker, For most of your young lives, you’ve heard your mom and I occasionally talk about your futures by saying t...
This quote from Robert Krulwich of NPR caught my eye yesterday: But there are some people, who don’t wait. I don’t know exactly what going on inside them; but they have this… hunger. It’s almost like...
So this morning it’s David Weinberger that’s got me thinking. No doubt, David has been one of my favorite Web philosophers for a long time, someone who almost always seems to open the win...
(Cross posted to Huffington Post) The last couple of days I’ve been soaking in a new white paper “Right to Learn: Identifying Precedents for Sustainable Change,” a document that I t...
Tim Stahmer’s post “There’s No Normal to Return To” has me thinking this morning. He writes: At the same time we in education are also doubling down on the “back to basics” an...
So, the biggest learning news coming from the Richardson household last week has, as is more often the case than not, little to do with the classroom and everything to do with doing. Two quick storie...
(Cross-posted at Huffington Post) First, let me say that I’m not specifically picking on the teachers and kids at Emerson Elementary in Pennsylvania, who put together this 12-plus minute video ...
From the Shameless Self-Promotion Dept. comes my TEDxNYEd Talk that I gave a few weeks ago. It was a real honor to be asked to do this talk, and I hope I did it justice. I found it incredibly difficu...
I get the great pleasure of spending an hour “teaching” in a classroom next Thursday with some 5th Year students at a school just outside of Sydney, and I thought I’d write a quick ...
The past couple of weeks have reminded me how hard it is for teachers to consider change when they don’t have a context for it and, most importantly, when they don’t value it. Case in poi...
(Cross posted on the Powerful Learning Practice blog as a part of an ongoing conversation with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.) Dear Sheryl, (Note: I’m grumpy and tired after being sick for a week so I apolog...
(Cross posted at the ASCD Whole Child Blog, here is a snip from my new book, co-authored with Rob Manabelli, which comes out in May.) Seventh/eighth grade teacher Clarence Fisher has an interesting w...
Meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get time. I think the headlines tell the tale around education right now. MICHIGAN NEW JERSEY WISCONSIN CONNECTICUT These are some crazy days, and I fea...
(Cross posted to the Powerful Learning Practice blog.) So what does the following list suggest to you about the value of “online learning”: 1. I can work ahead if I’m able to 2. I g...
I feel like I should do some fun tool blogging or great classroom blogging or something before heading down the depressing road of writing more about change in schools, but I guess I can’t help...
So first I just want to thank all of you who stuck around during the last session at Educon last week to extend this conversation, and to those of you who have signed on to see if we can make this ha...
If there is one thing you can count on upon leaving Educon it’s that you want to change things, most likely in a pretty big way. It’s not just the vibe at SLA with the kids and the teache...
So, yesterday I tried to articulate what I think might be a new story to tell around education, one that acknowledges that schools will soon no longer be seen as the only path to learning though they...
(Offered for discussion, not as complete thinking…) A few months from now, I’ll be marking my 10 year anniversary as a blogger. It’s been an amazing ride, and it’s been a surp...
Maybe I’m a little too fascinated by discussions of how all this networking online might play out in the next decade or so; guess I’m trying to act in the moment in ways that might better...
Ever since The Social Life of Information came out in 2000, John Seely Brown has been one of my favorite thinkers and authors around how learning and schools are changed by social media. I loved Pull...
So what did I glean in my almost month-long hiatus from my social online world? Not much that I didn’t already know. The world didn’t end. My family will always be more important than Twi...
Almost ten years into this, I still find it hard to articulate the appreciation I feel for the people I’ve connected to through this blog, their friendship, their generosity and energy, and mos...
Google just opened up it’s e-bookstore today. And while the required app doesn’t seem to be available in the US yet (even though it says it is), I already know what book will be my first ...
Just a quick observation in the midst of my blogging hiatus… I think it’s official. We’ve got the rhetoric for change down. We’re telling the new story…self-directed, mu...
I’m hoping I can get some ideas from math teacher types (and others) around an idea I’ve been kicking around for my son Tucker, who, as you might guess by the title of this post, loves ba...
From the “Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.” I just wanted to share this 40-minute or so “interview” that my local superintendent Lisa Brady did with me last month and is now air...
I really enjoyed Stephen Downes’ first offering at the Huffington Post this week. I think it captures the friction between the growing availability of options for a more “open” educ...
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