Upcoming travel and events December 3-5 – International School of Amsterdam, The Netherlands February 3 – Virginia Is for Learners Innovation Network, TBD, VA February 25-26 – Missouri Educational Technology Leaders CTO Clinic, TBD, MO March 10-13 – Central & Eastern European Schools Association (CEESA) Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary June 8-9 – Roanoke County Public...
Category: George Couros
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1,133 educational leaders to kickstart your Twitter feed
Got an administrator in your school or district who’s interested in Twitter but doesn’t know whom to follow? Interested in connecting online with more administrators yourself? Get started with these 1,133 educational leaders on Twitter! [UPDATE: Now up to over 2,000 leaders!] I’ll keep adding to this collection. Special thanks to Patrick Larkin, George Couros, Lyn...
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The ups and downs of educational technology advocacy
Sometimes I read things like this post from George Couros and am uplifted that some educators are working hard to transition their schools into a digital, global era: Take a twenty minute period in my life as evidenced below. I read a blog post found in my Reader feed, which leads me to a link on YouTube,...
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Making judgments about technologies we haven’t used and don’t understand
George Couros says: “Kids don’t have enough balance.” “We are dumber because of technology.” “People are disconnected from one another because of how we use technology.” “Technology kills our face-to-face interactions.” In my travels, I have heard all of these arguments. … You will hear people say things like “Twitter is stupid.” Just to clarify,...
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Banned from the biggest library in the world
George Couros says: If we got rid of a library in a school, people would be outraged that [we were] taking away information away from students, yet kids often hold the biggest library in the world in their pocket[s] and schools ban them from using it in the classroom. via http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4278 They can use it at...
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Less submissiveness. More voice.
George Couros says: As a teacher, would you prefer to work in an environment where [your] principal (who is [your] boss) wants feedback on the things that are happening in the school and actively listens? This doesn’t mean [she] always agree[s], but that you know [she] genuinely takes feedback in the workplace and figures out...
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The roars of approval as we revert back to what we’ve always done
George Couros said: Sometimes when the statement is made, “it is not about technology, it is about pedagogy”, you then hear the roars of approval, and off we go on our merry way with nothing changing for many students. In reality sometimes it is about the technology, and the opportunities that it provides that were...