Jul 8th, 2008
Well, other than “technology,” if I had to choose five tags to describe myself, sports, education and law would be in the top 5. So, imagine my surprise when I was pointed to this video of a Malcolm Gladwell speech/presentation (what is it that he does exactly?) covering those three areas. The main topic of [...]
Jun 28th, 2008
Just sat through most of the “discussion” on filtering policies. Good/interesting discussion. My take: “Policies” vary across districts. Some have very stringent AUPs that go well beyond CIPA (for example). One participant spoke about a “mature” AUP that trusts kids and teachers to do the right thing. They treat “bad” sites like bad books or [...]
May 8th, 2008
On occasion, I find myself itching to compose a post for this blog relating to some aspect of my work. Often, I end up stopping myself because…well…umm…because I’m scared. You see, I’m an untenured professor in a world (academia) that largely doesn’t get this whole blogging thing. It is (I’m afraid to say) still a [...]
Apr 23rd, 2008
Having just taught a class last night on tort liability in education, I thought it’d be fun to construct a hypothetical argument for a class-action case of educational malpractice [NOTE: I am fully aware that educational malpractice has been argued successfully in an actual court of law once, maybe twice, over the course of American [...]
Apr 2nd, 2008
I teach a research design course to a group of doctoral students in a local middle school. I wanted to demonstrate Google Docs to them and encourage them to use it since they’re working in small groups on a research project. 4 people, 1 report; perfect situation for Google Docs. But, sure enough, when I went to [...]