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Tech Insurgents: Do your teachers need a computing IEP?
At the recent Consortium for School Networking conference [2005*] educational computing pioneer Seymour Papert was asked to explain why there has been so little [school] …
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Learning Adventures: Transforming Real and Virtual Learning Environments
Fueled by adrenaline from the early-morning keynote debate, I got the enormous NECC stage to myself to make a presentation called, “Learning Adventures: Transforming Real …
A Critically Important Issue for Education – Certainty (even if the science is far from certain)
Originally published in 2009 Last night, students in one of my pre-service methods courses presented a curricular lesson they designed and a paper exploring a …
Last Year’s Trailer for the Year’s Constructing Modern Knowledge
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2009 begins on Sunday, June 12th. In anticipation of this fantastic event, here is a video documenting last year’s institute, created by …
Our Gettysburg Address?
On our nation’s Independence Day, I humbly offer this text for historians interested in understanding early 21st Century America (because I surely can’t). Paul Begala …
Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote
Should I be concerned that I got to keynote NECC the very year that they are killing off the brand? Was it something I said? …
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Must-read Classic for All Conference Attendees
Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly …
Be Careful What You Tweet For!
The strangest thing happened today (6/25/09). I was invited to be part of the keynote debate and dialogue at the National Educational Computing Conference in …
The Best Kept Secret this Side of Italy
This is a 2002 interview I conducted with experts about the Reggio Emilia approach to education.