"What Apps Should I Buy?"
It sure seems like, whenever I tell someone what it is I do, that somebody wants to tell me about the tablet they just bought. Then I’m immediately asked this question: # “What apps should I buy?” #...
View ArticleOn Coaching and Choice
We’re reading Unmistakable Impact by Jim Knight together as a large team at work. This is the third post in my series on that reading and reflection. # This month’s chapter is on coaching, both the...
View ArticleTalking iPads and Intention
A little while back, I had the opportunity to discuss our iPad 1:1 work with my friend and colleague, Antero Garcia. He wrote up the conversation and posted the video. Take a peek. # # Be sure to...
View ArticleLearning is Complicated
“Thinking about software as the primary way of solving problems (in any field) forces us to frame problems in terms that software is capable of addressing.” – Paul Franz at _The Atlantic_. # Software...
View Article“Don’t Use the iPad Just to Use the iPad”
Tonight, we held our first in a series of informal meet ups intended to help build collegiality and shared expertise around being a 1:1 school district. Michelle named these events iPad Geekouts, or,...
View ArticleWhen Programming Becomes Persuasion
It’s probably a month or two ago now that I was talking with my friend Ben about programming and some of the work that he’s exploring and that I’m involved in. # There’s a project in my school...
View ArticleMaking a Maker Space. Again.
At the library, I’m working with a team of really smart folks who want to offer the best opportunities for our patrons1. # One of the reasons I wanted to work with the Clearview Library District was...
View ArticleMe, #nwpleads, and 2 Metaphors for NWP Leadership
I’m working this week from Austin, Texas, where I’m at the Building New Pathways event with the National Writing Project. One of my more interesting consulting projects right now is working on this...
View ArticleBadges. #nwpleads Badges.
I’m writing this morning from the last morning of the Building New Pathways Working Meeting, which stopped being a Listening Retreat and became the Working Meeting at around 10:30am yesterday, as the...
View ArticleOn Not Solving Problems
I’m writing today at the tail end of a National Writing Project Building New Pathways for teacher Leadership Convening in New Orleans. For the last year, I’ve been working with a smart team of NWPeeps...
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