We Lost Another Great Artist – Snooky Young R.I.P
Eugene “Snooky” Young was one of the baddest jazz and studio trumpet players who ever lived. He passed away last week at the age of …
Google Science Fair Video of CMK 2011 Speaker
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2011 (July 11-14, 2011) guest speaker and MIT Media Lab reception host, Dr. Mitchel Resnick, was recently interviewed for the Google Science …
New Keynote & Workshop Topics for 2011-2012
In addition to the keynote addresses, presentation topics and workshops offered here (including the three popular keynotes listed below), I have created new hands-on minds-on …
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Cynthia Solomon, EdTech Heroine
There’s chatter from time-to-time within the edtech community about the lack of women in prominent roles. Yet, some of the most important pioneers in the …
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Supersize CMK
I created Constructing Modern Knowledge (CMK) four years ago as a labor of love. I was growing increasingly concerned that educators lacked the time necessary …
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Apparently, I’m the Conservative
I’m in the Sierra Mountains skiing where the altitude has replaced sleeping with hallucinating. So, unable to sleep, I read Will Richardson’s latest blog post …
Books for EDLT Cadre – Summer 2011
Required texts The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer by Seymour Papert The Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Educational Reader by …
Books for Summer 2011 OMLT Course
Required texts Digital Habitats; stewarding technology for communities by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, John D Smith The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of …
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Things May Not Get Better!
I’m an optimist by nature. That’s why I awake each day thinking I can make the world a better place for children despite overwhelming evidence …
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Humble Suggestions for Summer Reading
Chris Lehmann’s blog post today, Enough Already, provides further evidence of how public education is being hijacked by corporate assassins, political demagogues, merry pranksters and …