One of the reasons why we feel very lucky these days is because we actually get some chances to get outside of the US and see firsthand what others are doing. This is our third trip to the UK this year and we get more and more impressed each time we come by what they are trying to do.

We’ve been growing more frustrated lately and we’re feeling more pessimistic about the prospects for any serious change in how we as an education system see teaching and learning, and we think we’ve figured out why.

So we had the distinct pleasure of getting a chance to chat on and off with Marco Torres the last few days and to…

Announcing the first annual "K12 Online 2006" convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools…

The whole integrating technology discussion that many have been chronicling of late has been sticking in our craw for a couple of reasons. It’s becoming exceedingly clear that we have an outdated perception of what teachers need to be and that perhaps we should be hiring learners first, not just traditional “teachers.”

Dave Cormier just Skyped us with a link to this article that details the patents on learning management systems that were just awarded to…

So the dopey House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed DOPA, and we’ve got to get our acts together to make sure Senators have more of…

Mathcasts.org is a wiki collecting student-produced screencasts on math topics, offering teachers imaginative curriculum options and giving students a chance to teach instead of just being tested.

From the “Throw it Up and See if it Sticks Deptartment” we just put together a Digg-type site over at CrispyNews specifically for those…

Konrad Glogowski has an amazing post today about his grade 8 students’ blogging experiences, and it’s one that should be trumpeted far and wide…