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In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, and material. Enjoy…

I’ve just returned from presenting at the California Charter Schools Conference in Sacramento. With so many topics and such diverse backgrounds it was quite enlightening. The interest in Web 2.0 technologies was intense. It seems to be one of the hottest topics and everyone is scrambling to learn how it can improve education.
As with any [...]

Shmoop is an online resource that provides learning guides and academic resources to help teachers make learning relevant. Shmoop provides free learning guides in seven subjects: literature, poetry, bestsellers, US History, civics, biography, and music. The learning guides are written by experts and contain analysis, interesting insight, questions, and multimedia for each topic. Check out [...]

This past week I finally had a chance to mess around with the curriculum sharing platform BetterLesson, and I thought I’d share my thoughts.
The new social networking site is designed to help teachers create, organize and share lesson plans. Unlike traditional curriculum sharing websites, BetterLesson incorporates a unique curriculum organizing and filing system that enables [...]

Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus.  In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns [...]