This video has been on the web for awhile (so I'm a little late to the party), but I just had the chance to listen to the talk in the car yesterday while taking my boys to the zoo. I really liked the speaker's explanation of how education needs to...

I thought long and hard about what to call my new professional blog. I brainstormed a huge list of possible titles, everything from ???Digital Dispatch??? to ???Techknowledgy??? to ???The Change Up???--a reference to my days as a baseball pitcher. I wanted so...

Here's an interesting article by anti assessment and grades in school crusader Alfie Kohn. He refutes the claims by many (I know that I have thought it many times) who seem to think that today's kids are too coddled by their parents. I know that e...