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Back on the soapbox.



I don't know how many times I've heard over the years "I don't have time to learn how to do this. Why can't it be part of in-service? We should have time put into our schedules to learn [insert whatever here]."



Professionals learn on their own. They don't wait for their company, business, school, etc. to hand them the information they need to get better at what they do. They make a personal commitment, sacrifice some of their valuable time, and make… Continue

This is my rant to all the educators out there clamoring, "I need a Smartboard! I need a Smartboard!"



PROVE IT.



Show me how you have far exceeded your teaching capabilities and can no longer continue without one. Show me the in-depth multimedia presentations that engage your students but are missing the chance to go up and poke the screen. Show me how your students' educations are suffering because you don't have one hanging on your wall to use as a big movie projector.… Continue

I'm running a survey right now on what should and should not be in an educational (social) network. Take five minutes and make your opinion heard. I'll share the results once the survey is complete after EduCon.

Take the survey on educational social networks.

Dave Warlick writes:

Here’s the point of my sharing this. My daughter, like most (if not all) of her friends have been using computers as their principal information tool for much of their lives. Although their high school

experience was relatively technology-poor, nearly all of their writing

was on computer, and a significant, if not majority, of their research

was networked and…

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Scott McLeod voices this observation:

“…can anyone else think of an employment sector other than K-12 and postsecondary education where employees have the right to refuse to use technology?

For example, a grocery store checker doesn’t get to say ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use a register.’ A stockbroker doesn’t get to say, ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use a computer.’ An architect doesn’t

get to say, ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use AutoCAD.’ But…

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