“You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read…You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.” Cesar Chavez It jumped right out at me as I opened the front page of today’s Sac Bee – E is for Empowerment. As he did in life, on what would have been his 80th birthday, the legacy [...]

For the last few days, a very sad story about educator Kathy Sierra has been moving across the blogosphere. A heinous story about threats made on her life, scary enough to cause her to cancel a keynote speech at a tech conference in California. In support and response, Andy Carvin has requested that today, March [...]

I started reading Karl Fisch’s blog last summer. I think it was through Will Richardson’s blog that I discovered Karl’s Fischbowl. Or maybe it was through David Warlick’s or Bud the Teacher’s posts. But as I read through Karl’s post this morning, I was able to travel back with him to August, when he very [...]

I don’t know why it was not obvious to me that writing to be heard is different from writing to be read. Miguel Guhlin‘s recent post Podcasting as Writing was a huge “ah-ha” for me. I’ve already tagged and printed out the article he references by Nancy Updike. I was barely past Nancy’s statement “I [...]

“What’s the use of having a machine capable of working at lightning speed if the information it needs trickles in like molasses in January?” (from “The Most Crucial Computing Skill” by Erik Sandberg-Diment/ Science Digest/ January/ 1984) I learned to type in high school – on a typewriter, not a computer. Touch typing is still [...]

I think it’s important that students understand that blogging is different then IMing or text messages – two genres associated with fast, spontaneous dialog. To justify blogging within the school day, I believe our students should gain a sense of audience, which, depending on the blog project, may extend across geographic, socio-economic, and generational boundaries. [...]

In a recent phone conversation (via Skype) with Paul Allison, Paul mentioned he had been asked by the NWP to think about ways to continue supporting and providing teachers with professional development opportunities for integrating technology into their teaching practice. His concern is for the teacher who already has a start in that direction, and [...]

Alice Mercer, 5th grade teacher at Nicholas Elementary School in the Sacramento City Unified School District is experimenting with a number of Web 2.0 tools to support and engage her students in learning. Through a visit to her Ms. Mercer’s Class Website, I discovered very cool FREE – and “not-yet-blocked” tool that Alice is using [...]

Kevin Hodgson‘s Electric Pen classroom weblog site provides teachers with a window into Web 2.0 possibilities at the elementary level. It is also Tech Learning‘s site of the week. What a well-deserved recognition! Kevin is my friend, mentor, and also a fellow NWP Tech Liaison. I’ve had the good fortune to join him in the [...]