Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingIt’s a Technological World, Are Your Teachers Up to Par? by Ken Myers is aimed at helping education leaders with their vision in regard to modern technology and its use by teachers. Since just about any decent job today requires technical skills, we can no longer abide teachers who aren’t interested in making the most of their school’s technical resources.
Read entire post...Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel
January 25th, 2014Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel (© 2013, Riverside Books: NY, NY) explains how they use Google’s repository of 30 million digitized books to investigate human culture. Their analytical tool lets them see how words and phrases have come and gone over the years and what these trends can tell us about ourselves. As more data becomes available they see many positive and negative possibilities.
Read entire post...Humor, Music, & Cool Stuff Greatest Hits 2014
December 31st, 2013In addition to the education and leadership resources I post daily, I always end with this grab bag category so you can have some fun, and maybe still learn something. So read through the list and have some fun. The greatest hits of my other categories were posted on previous days along with my best […]
Read entire post...My Best Eleven Book Summaries from 2013
December 30th, 2013Since starting my blog in 2009, I have summarized 97 books. I do this to help you with purchase decisions, and to help people review the key concepts after they have read the book. Today I am posting links to my favorite summaries from 2013. My focus is education, but I find that there are […]
Read entire post...Learning’s Greatest Hits from 2013
December 29th, 2013Thanks to the Internet, teachers and students have access to an unprecedented number of high quality learning resources. Each day I post the best that I find thanks to the people I follow in Twitter. Some of the best from this year are available as part of this post. By far, my best source for […]
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