Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingAlthough this book by Robert Hooke was written in 1983, it is still applicable today. It can help you avoid being persuaded against your will if you only look at the numbers spouted by the data pushers with a critical eye. This book and my summary were written for people who don’t especially like numbers, […]
Read entire post...How to Tell Liars From Statisticians Robert Hooke
July 27th, 2010Readicide – How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
June 8th, 2010
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher (©2009, Stenhouse Publishers: Portland, ME) explains how most schools teach reading in a way that kills most students love or reading. It also gives advice on how to fix the problem. Educators at the middle school and elementary levels along with parents should read this.
Read entire post...What the Internet does to your brain – Nicholas Carr
June 4th, 2010The June 2010 Issue of Wired Magazine brings us a review of a new book by Nicholas Carr titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. It should be out some time in June 2010 from W. W. Norton and Company. The message I get is that we should balance the time […]
Read entire post...Do Districts Need a Tech Director?
May 28th, 2010I am now a guest blogger at Dangerously Irrelevant, which is a popular blog devoted to technology, leadership, and the future of schools. The author is Scott McLeod, L. D., Ph. D. who is a professor at Iowa State University. The post is an article that I did on the idea that districts should think […]
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