Author Archive: clouducation
The highest paid public employee is…
Hat tip to Scott McLeod (@mcleod) and Brett Hoffman (@hoffmanteambret) for sharing this!
My Little Global School – Thomas L. Friedman
OP-ED COLUMNIST My Little (Global) School By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: April 2, 2013 49 Comments There was a time when middle-class parents in America could be — and were — content to know that their kids’ public schools were better than those in the next neighborhood over. As the world has shrunk, though, the next neighborhood …
Self-fulfilling prophesy in education technology
Self-fulfilling prophesy is very easy to see in the public school system. Players on the basketball team assume they can’t beat team x, don’t work as hard in practice all week, and then go out on game night and lose. They will say “Seeee!” Pat decides early on that the test is going to be …
Why Schoology is the key to transformational teaching, maybe.
Circa 2008ish, the word was Moodle. Everyone buzzed about the platform’s ability to transform education by creating the best connection between the classroom and the world. In other circles, it was Blackboard. Then, a few years ago, Edmodo hit the scene, with a Facebook-like look and feel, and again, educators raved about the way it …
Five things I learned from my student teacher
For the past 8 weeks, I have had the privilege of having a preservice teacher interning with me. I haven’t had an intern for almost 5 years, but the experience has been similar to others. I learn a lot from them. I learn about what new teachers know and don’t know, and I learned a …
Brief but necessary hiatus, BRB
As I am entering the last stage of my dissertation and work toward a defense in March, my cultivation of this blog will be minimal. I hope you can still find useful ideas on any of the previous posts or on the other pages. I will return triumphant at some point in late spring …
Education Horror Stories – Six Monsters Against Reform
It’s hard to pin down just what ails public education today. Perhaps it is the fact that there are very few major entities actually interested in real education reform, most just want an inexpensive tweak. Like so many horror movies, elements of our education system have become trouble, and like the unsuspecting bit characters in …
Teens shamed online for being racist. Karma or casualty of social media?
I have read a few articles (like this one) that delight in sharing stories of teens around the nation tweeting racist or just outright ignorant messages regarding the recent election. One teen’s foolishness became viral as she suggested she move to Australia to escape the U.S. (here). The question remains: do teens really understand that …
