Yesterday, Miguel Guhlin wrote a post about Bloglines’ new “Image Wall.” His main contention is that the images aren’t filtered, and so anyone using the service may be exposed to offensive material. (Bloglines does require you to accept a disclaimer before passing you on to the Image Wall.)
Because of the Image Wall, Miguel [...]

When I first heard about the Julie Amero case, I couldn’t believe that it wasn’t summarily dismissed. When I learned that the jury had convicted Amero, my reactions swung from outrage to depression. That verdict is almost enough, on my bad days, to make me want to throw out every computer in my [...]

From the CNN article “Commission urges tracking of teacher progress,” notes about a “special commission” involved in the revision of NCLB:
Teachers should be evaluated annually based on progress in the test scores of their students, the panel said. Reviews by colleagues or school principals also would be part of the equation for determining teacher quality.
My [...]

Recently, Scott McLeod called attention to Mike Wesch’s post about “anti-teaching,” which stirred up some discussion. The objections in the discussion centered around the term itself: “anti-teaching.” Most seemed to agree with Wesch’s basic ideas, but didn’t like the implications of that label.
Wesch makes his distinction clear, stating:
Teaching is about providing good information. [...]

I’ve just started reading Roger Scruton’s An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy, so this isn’t a review. However, I was struck by this passage from the preface:
Philosophy is not the only subject that has been ’scientized’ by the modern university: literature has been shrunk to ‘literary theory,’ music has been colonized by set theory, [...]

I’m saying: we should teach to the test, as long as it’s an appropriate test, and to discover what an appropriate test is for each discipline and each course, we have to work carefully backwards.
I’ve thought this for a while, but the last two posts over at Friends of Dave gave me a way to [...]

A few days ago, Kevin tagged me for the “layout of your working space” meme. This comes at a good time because I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of aesthetics and the affective domain in terms of the education.
My basic working thesis is this: students’ brains are housed in bodies, and both brains [...]

I don’t even have a beginner’s grasp on what School 2.0 might mean (and maybe that’s OK), but I have been playing with a question that seems to be moving in that direction.
What if teachers worked as facilitators and translators, instead of gatekeepers and repositories of knowledge? Bear with me through some thinking-aloud …
Context [...]

A few quotes from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research about teacher pay are listed below, and I’m annoyed enough to want to list some clarifications from a personal perspective. I don’t really want this to be just a rant, though … I also hope it will be informative to people who don’t [...]

I think all schools should be closed tomorrow, the day after the Super Bowl, but not to honor the sporting event. Instead, it might bring some tiny level of awareness to how seriously we, as a nation, take entertainment as opposed to how seriously we, as a nation, fail to take education. (This [...]