The President is calling: I'm calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entre...

I've had a lot of fun guest blogging over at The Des Moines Register this week. For those of you who would like to have a single link that you can forward to others, you can use this web address: http://snipurl.com/iowaseries Here are links to each of the five posts here at Dangerously Irrelevant: I...

[This is Post 5 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

[This is post 4 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

[This is Post 2 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

Christmas 2008 is right around the corner and that means it’s time to play… SPOT THAT HOLIDAY VIOLATION! Here are the rules: Only American public schools are eligible. [sorry, international readers] Identify a possible violation of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution in yo...

Alfie Kohn’s new article in The Nation comes out in print next week. You can read it early online and get his perspectives on the next U.S. Secretary of Education. Here’s a quote: Almost never questioned ... are the core elements of traditional schooling, such as lectures, worksheets, quizzes, g...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] The personalization movement, enabled significantly by communication and design technologies as well as global manufacturing supply chains, is well under way… If I want to, I can personalize – and often even custom design – my shoes, my clothes, my jewel...

Here are the rest of my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC… Discussions Wyatt Sledge, Forth Worth (TX) ISD, told me that the district just hired a dedicated technology trainer for its administrators . Awesome! Expert panel Lara Sujo de Montes, New Mexico State University Digi...

Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities Dr. Paul Resta, U. Texas-Austin Current estimate of world repository of pictures/words/movies = 7 exabytes (L...