Uncategorized Stress Less 18 Oct 2021 When we got word that we weren't going back to school, I made a pot of coffee. I went to the basement with my laptop and notebook, and I jumped…
Uncategorized Nostalgic Optimism 13 Oct 20218 Oct 2021 I'm pretty old. I was thinking about my first job interview. It was 1993. I was asked what I thought about Microsoft Windows. I told them it wasn't a real…
Uncategorized Friction 7 Oct 2021 For years, I used the same company to buy most of my technology supplies. If I needed printers or cables or memory or consumables, I would always go there. The…
Uncategorized Effect Size 19 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 John Hattie wanted to answer a very simple question. We've been studying school improvement for decades. We've tried all kinds of new initiatives, programs, philosophies, and approaches to improve student…
Uncategorized Because We Want To 12 Sep 2021 Years ago, I put together some professional development workshops for teachers centered around using "web 2.0" technologies in the classroom. At the time, the idea of the World Wide Web…
Uncategorized Worksheets and Flash Cards 6 Sep 2021 The first time I used a computer was in 1981. I think it was an Apple IIe, but it might have been a Radio Shack TRS-80. My middle school had…
Uncategorized Freedom 27 Aug 2021 "This is America. It's a free country. You can do anything you want to do." My football coach was explaining how life works. "But," he continued, "you have to be…
Uncategorized Who Asked You? 20 Aug 202120 Aug 2021 Mom and Dad were away for the weekend. It wasn't really a party, per se. It was just a couple friends coming over for the evening. A little get together.…
Uncategorized Blended Hybrid 17 Aug 2021 Remember 21st Century Skills? Back at the turn of the century, we were all abuzz about the needs of our students as we moved into the new millennium. We knew…
Uncategorized Ready for Anything 8 Aug 2021 I've been thinking about Y2K lately. Back in the late 1990s, the technology industry faced a serious problem with how computers stored dates. The societal norm was to use two…
Uncategorized The Starting Point 24 Jul 2021 "I saw student choice. The kids were writing their own songs. It was definitely DOK-4." We were debriefing an instructional rounds experience after observing a fourth grade music class. The…
Uncategorized Evolving History 16 Jul 202116 Jul 2021 In 1607, the first permanent English colony in America was established in Jamestown, Virginia. There are actually two Jamestown colonies, a couple miles apart, and my wife and I visited…
