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If anything, I think Minecraft is making kids smarter. But whenever I say that, the technophobes, the Waldorf parents, and a whole subset of very smart, compassionate, concerned parents and teachers get very curmudgeonly.

We need to stop blaming the video games and start trying to make kids as passionate about the life-world as they are about the game-world. The trouble is that our own egos are in the way.

fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.

A day to remind ourselves and our students that citizenship means asking questions, finding answers and standing up for what you believe in... and that education must mean that too.

Perhaps the weakest area of the typical one-to-one computing plan is the complete absence of leadership development for the administrative team—that is, learning how to manage the transition from a learning ecology where paper is the dominant technology for storing and retrieving information, to a world that is all digital, all the time. Leaders must be given the training to: Craft a clear vision of connecting all students to the world’s learning resources. Model the actions and behaviors they wish to see in their schools. Support the design of an ongoing and embedded staff development program that focuses on pedagogy as much as technology. Move in to the role of systems analyst to ensure that digital literacy is aligned with standards. Ensure that technology is seen not as another initiative, but as integral to curriculum.