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Why are we STILL Wasting Money on Whiteboards?

If you’ve spent any time reading the Radical, you know that I hate Interactive Whiteboards—and the companies that sell them as instructional silver bullets—with an unhealthy passion.  read more

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Google's Reading Level Search Feature

In a comment on my recent post about teaching students to search for reliable information on the web, Debryc wrote:I want to teach my students these skills of information curation but I don't know how....

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What I Would Do with an iPad in My Classroom

An interesting email landed in my inbox this week from a good friend who has really been trying to integrate technology into her language arts class. For confidentiality sake, we'll call her Mary.Turns...

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How Are You Vetting Ideas in Your School or District?

I stumbled across an interesting service called Vetter this week.  In its simplest form, Vetter is a digital suggestion box designed to get ideas from employees. What makes Vetter unique, however, is...

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Tool Review: Posterous Spaces

Our school has always required that teachers maintain websites as a tool for communicating with both parents and students.  For most teachers, "maintaining websites" means housing updates and classroom...

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Materials for My #scichat Homies [Handouts]

Bad news, all y'all:  I don't have a ton of time to write tonight.  My 2.5 year old daughter -- who is completely beautiful, by the way -- is sick as can be, which means my wife and I are juggling work...

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Quick Guide to Web 2.0 Services [Handout]

Not sure if you've figured it out or not, but I've been writing a ton about teaching and learning with technology this month! That's because I'm spending my three-week vacation on the road presenting...

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What Will You Click On Next? [Handout]

Poking through my feed reader this weekend, I stumbled on this GREAT bit on the Mindshift blog featuring the thinking of Howard Rheingold -- a leader in defining the kinds of changing skills needed in...

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Why Kids Need Goodreads

One of the core beliefs of my interdisciplinary team is that our sixth grade students need to see ALL of their teachers -- not just the language arts teacher -- as readers.  As a result, we've decided...

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Technology Professional Development Scenarios

Let's start with a simple truth:  Schools have limited budgets and every time that we make careless spending choices, we tie our own hands behind our backs.As a result, I've worked HARD over the past...

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