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Start with the idea and apply the tool. If you start with the tool first…you have a lesser chance of effecting learning. This happens to me quite often. A teacher will come to me and say "I want to blog." OK, that's great, but why? What are you thinking? Why do you want to blog? What do you know about a blog?

Sample letter for parent explanation and consent for classroom blogging

This blog post includes a link to great video called "Positively Autistic" that talks about turnign around our thinking - instead of thinking of our "deficits" can we start looking at our "assets" instead? And how does that change our parenting or teaching?

Bringing iPods into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. However, there are so many things to keep in mind to make the iPods work smoothly in the classroom.

A great, thoughtful post about blogging, how it's changing and the need to create new ways to describe/define it.

Here's a tool for embedding a tweet into a blog post. Sue Waters provides instructions for use here: http://theedublogger.com/2010/05/06/hot-to-easily-embed-your-favorite-tweets-into-blog-posts/

great idea for first day of the year activities to engage all learners.

Now if success in life were achieved with the help of others and some good luck, as Gladwell argues convincingly, would it not also make sense that failure follows a similar pattern? Can we really believe in the self-made failure when we can no longer believe in the simplistic explanation of the self-made success?

I'm still thinking about that UCLA research saying "technology in the classroom damages literacy and critical thinking." I'm still thinking it's behind the times, in its framing of technology as "video games and TV," and its complete omission of the Web and the social media/Web 2.0 explosion over the last five years or so.

Great first comment: Parents have the responsibility to monitor and guide children and teenagers. Of course kids will object. How many of us thought our parents were right when they tried to limit what we wanted to do? We must be wise enough as parents to know best and strong enough to stand up to the kids' anger. Bullies are not all the same, but their patterns of behavior, their tactics, are the same. That's why we can find ways to stop most of them. Sometimes, fighting is the key to success. If we don't stop bullies, they'll think we're easy prey. Like sharks, they'll just go after us more.

by Angela Maiers Includes Brave New World Wide Web video done by Dave Truss.