Preparing Students for Their Future, Not Our Past

    A new billboard along the A20 Freeway in Shanghai, China. Sign reads: “Welcome Texas Instruments to the Changzhou District”

Just recieved an invitatiion from an ex-student to join this site www.sms.ac By the looks of it you can sign up to send 5 free text messages to cell phones each day. The great part is you can send them to any phone in the world. So I’m here in China and a friend in the states can send me […]

IÂ’m pretty pumped today as a class of 5th graders uploaded their podcasts today. They recorded a journal entry they had to write as part of a webquest on space. It was the teacherÂ’s idea which makes it all the more cool. Phil Kittower came to me before Winter Break saying he really wanted to take advantage of the Blogs […]

Ok, this is for all you librarians out there. My librarian wrote me an e-mail today and said that IÂ’m becoming more like a librarian everyday. I wrote her back and said “No, youÂ’re becoming more of a techie!” Well we finally got our two worlds to combine this week and the library became a wireless hot spot with 8 […]

Read this article from eSchool News the other day. The most interesting part of the article for me was the following: High schools across the country were asked by the College Board’s world language initiative whether they’d consider adding Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese–and the organization was amazed at the results, said Tom Matts, initiative […]

IÂ’ve spend most of the day reading the amazing conversation going on about change. My head is literally spinning, giving me a headache. What do you take for an information overload headache? There is so much good stuff I donÂ’t even know where to begin. Or even what to say, I just know I need to write something. Marc Prensky […]

So itÂ’s grading time again and that means IÂ’m sitting here filling out 320 grade reports giving Kindergarten, First, and Fifth graders grades for technology. Why? Because itÂ’s on the report card. I just finished spending two years reworking the report card at my last school so that it did not include technology as a singular subject. Instead technology was […]

Just spent the last hour wondering around the edublog world via my bloglines account getting caught up on everything I missed while unwired for two weeks. I was actually planning on doing some commenting on great articles that inspired me, but didnÂ’t find any. ThatÂ’s not to say there are not great conversations going on, just none that were calling […]

On the plane from Perth to Singapore and had some random thoughts that I wanted to write down. So I’ve grabbed my portable keyboard and Palm T5 to do a little thinking. Just a bunch of random thoughts here so feel free to browse. Personal Content: I just stood up to have a stretch and looked around me at the […]

After a 14 hour non eventful flight (which is a good thing) home from Australia, I wake up this morning excited to upgrade to WordPress 2.0. But before doing so, I read a couple of my favorites including John Pederson. WOW, do I have a lot of work to do. The Thinking Stick is in perpetual beta mode, and hopefully […]