Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Twitter (And Other Social Media): Our Ego-Inflation and Self-Promotion Device

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Have you really thought about the nature of social media? Most of us use it. I've even praised it, but lately I have begun to really exa...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Time for a Little Heretical Thought in the Ed Tech World

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If anyone has noticed, I have subtly changed the byline of this blog, for it once stated: "Technology, Teaching, and Public School Ad...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

False Promise of Social Media: Confessions of a Former SM Evangelist

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In some of my past blog posts, I’ve often talked about how social media fostered conversations and connections. I now confess: I’ve been wr...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Reading the Book "The Sun Does Shine": What Educational Leaders and Educators Can Learn from a Former Death Row Inmate

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"You don't have to be locked up to occupy your mind and your days trying to rewrite a painful past or undo a terrible tragedy or m...
Friday, April 20, 2018

NC Legislator Suggests Arming Educators: Gun Worship Continues in the Tarheel State

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In February, in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas, I posted my opinion about the idea of arming educators. ( Arming Educators: A Bad, S...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

How 21st Century School Leaders Can Tell If They Are Infected with "Metric Fixation"

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"Metric fixation is the seemingly irresistible pressure to measure performance, to publicize it, and to reward it, often in the face o...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Liberal Arts & Humanities vs Science,Math and STEM: What If Educational Leaders Are On Wrong Side of History?

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What if we as education leaders are wrong about all this hype about the supremacy of math and science as being the keys to our future and th...