Here is the latest edition of the Edtech Posse podcast. The tone of the conversation was to focus on the positive nature of particularly higher education. The theme of the discussion was to focus on positive gains in education, particularly in higher education. Since it begins with celebrating the succsess of our alma mater’s football team, it seemed fitting I...

Like much of the western part of North America, we got hit with a pretty nasty blizzard. For my Australian readers, a blizzard is defined as “severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow.” But what does that really mean? Rob posts some photos from outside his school, like the one to the left. While...

Thanks to Pete Reilly for digging into the stats to confirm what most of us have been saying for quite some time in regards to online safety. We know it’s important but it’s over hyped….way over hyped. When we slice the “less than five percent pie” into these smaller pieces, the risk gets much, much smaller. Of course, statistics aren’t going...

One of my goals for the year is to do a better job promoting new stories of learning. While I hope to focus mostly on students, I work with administrators quite a bit and am encouraged by the move many are making to embrace and consider more effective ways of teaching and learning. Scott McLeod has been doing a great job of supporting principals and administrators in...

I picked up a copy of the local paper to see my son on the cover…Full name, clearly identified. Did he give permission to have the photograph published? No. Newspapers have a policy that they must print full names of anyone photographed. They’ve been doing it for years. Our schools meanwhile try desperately to protect students from any chance of...