Homeschooling
Homeschooling on one income: the practical economics
The math of homeschooling on one income is more workable than people assume and harder than the social-media version suggests. The honest line items, in order.
Homeschooling
Chromebooks vs. iPads in K-12: where each one actually wins
The K-12 device wars settled into a partial truce. Chromebooks dominate by unit count; iPads still win in specific contexts. A guide to mixed deployments.
Udemy vs. Skillshare vs. LinkedIn Learning: where each one wins
Three online course marketplaces serve different audiences and use cases. A practical comparison for picking the right platform for what you actually want to learn.
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EdTech & Classroom Tools
Honest reviews of the apps, platforms, AI tools, and devices teachers are asked to adopt. We assess what genuinely helps students think, what just keeps them busy, and what's heavily marketed without earning its place.
“Chromebooks vs. iPads in K-12: where each one actually wins”
25 posts
Digital Literacy & Media
Reading, writing, and thinking in a media environment that wasn't built in students' interest. We cover information literacy, source evaluation, attention, and what it means to be a careful reader and a credible writer online.
“Teaching media literacy in an algorithm-shaped attention environment”
25 posts
Schools & Policy
What happens to teaching when policy meets practice. We write about school systems, assessment regimes, district decisions, and the quiet politics that shape what's possible inside the classroom.
“The UnCommon Core”
20 posts
Teaching & Pedagogy
How real classrooms work, lesson by lesson. We write about instructional design, classroom practice, and the small craft decisions that shape what students actually learn, separating durable pedagogy from passing fashion.
“The first ten days: what new teachers should actually focus on”
18 posts
Professional Development
Notes on how teachers actually grow. We cover conferences worth attending, PD that doesn't waste a Saturday, and the case for treating educators as career-long learners rather than topped-off skill sets.
“ISTE 2010: Easy…Not Free”
16 posts
Online Learning
MOOCs, course platforms, bootcamps, and the rest of the open-web learning economy. We cover where online courses deliver, where they don't, and how adults are actually picking up new skills outside traditional classrooms.
“Udemy vs. Skillshare vs. LinkedIn Learning: where each one wins”
9 posts
Recent writing
EdTech & Classroom Tools
Reason #84 to Teach Blogs and Wikis: National Security
Great article in the New York Times magzine today on the burgeoning use of blogs and wikis by government intelligence agencies to capture and connect information and turn it into knowledge.
EdTech & Classroom Tools
Using Pageflakes as Student Portal
We share how we’ve been using Pageflakes in RSS workshops to create topic-specific student portals, and why these dynamic, customizable pages can be powerful tools for teaching content management, RSS, and global awareness.
Schools & Policy
No Child Left Without a Portfolio
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.
Teaching & Pedagogy
Owning the Teaching…and the Learning
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.
Professional Development
Marco Torres–“Quit, Complain, or Innovate”
So we had the distinct pleasure of getting a chance to chat on and off with Marco Torres the last few days and to…
Professional Development
K12 Online 2006 Conference…
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…
Professional Development
Teachers as Learners Part 27
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.”
EdTech & Classroom Tools
Blackboard Patents the LMS…The End of Moodle and Elgg?
Dave Cormier just Skyped us with a link to this article that details the patents on learning management systems that were just awarded to…