Blogging meeting at the Vatican today
Oh, to have been a fly upon the wall! There was a large meeting of bloggers that took place at the Vatican this week. The twitter feed (hashtag #vbm11) helps a little, as does a variety of individual...
View ArticleTeens and the “culture of celebritization”
danah boyd has another excellent and thought-provoking essay up about the intersection of adolescence and the attention economy: Teens’ desire for attention is not new. Teens have always looked for...
View ArticleDoes Sunday School have a future?
My answer to this question has been “no,” or at least, “not much of one” for some time now. I like Sheldon Good’s essay, and would quote this excerpt in particular: School? In an age of accessible...
View ArticleThinking about the future of higher education
George Siemens is one of the people whose work I’ve followed for years, and his current reflection on value in higher education bears deep thought on the part of those of us who are in the tiny corner...
View ArticleTweets of the week
The Power Of A President's Words, Ctd http://t.co/r1KhtZYV via @DishFeed #fb 2012-06-03 Pop Music Getting Sadder and Sadder -: http://t.co/SsupwPcE #fb 2012-06-03 On Reasonable Pluralism and Being...
View ArticleFinding useful information in a crisis
Yesterday was an interesting exercise for me in finding useful information in a crisis. I lived for years in the neighborhood where the Boston marathon suspect manhunt was taking place, so I was...
View ArticleHow do we create learning community?
Powerful essay in the Atlantic this month pondering “building better teachers.” I was not a fan of the title of the piece, and almost didn’t read it, given my preconception of that rhetoric. But there...
View ArticleTweets of the week
Vitae’s list of teaching resources: https://t.co/bg75p8qtCO 2014-10-27 What it really means to ‘live our mission’ — a gorgeous essay: http://t.co/cM1JRlpUzP 2014-10-27 Modest gain in blended learning,...
View ArticleChoosing our religion
To be honest, I receive a lot of books from colleagues – and even more from publishers – who are interested in my feedback or review of a specific text. Most of the time I glance at a book, get a basic...
View ArticleIn it for the long haul…
I am worried about the ways in which people are hyper ventilating over every tidbit of information that comes out of the White House these past few days. Trump at the CIA, Trump’s press secretary, etc....
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