A confluence of events over the past few months have lead me to the above. ONE Last spring, I supervised a student teacher in an urban school whom I am …

  Lately, I have decided that I will continue on a tack that I began in earnest last year to do even less “teaching about teaching” in my “New Media …

In response to the “naked hatred” sometimes expressed in anonymous commentary in internet forums — people calling each other “douchebag,” “gay,” and “u shitstain” (you’ve seen it) — Mike Wesch, …

Chris Lehman is the principal of of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA, a school built upon “the ethic of care” and five core principles:  1. Inquiry, 2. Research, 3. …

Daniel Pink’s address about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as it affects business has direct application to schools:

Check out the PSAs produced by students in my ENG 307: New Media Literacies and the ELA Classroom course this semester. They were asked to create PSAs that promote the integration of social media into schools, and this is the impressive set of ads that they came up with: Interconnectivity Between Classrooms Caitlin Higgins, Carlie ...

Here is a an email that I sent in response to the Obama campaign’s appeal to get behind President Obama’s (ultimately unsatisfactory) proposed response to the Republican budget: Eliminate tax loopholes for corporations. Global capitalism is a reality.  Things are changing and shifting in the world’s economy, and the proposed budgets (Republican’sand President Obama’s) allow ...