It’s from the folks at Education Week and Teacher magazine: Teaching Now.
You may want to see the entry a couple of days ago about a school who issued cell phones to fifth grade students, and why.
Or note this story that Broward County, Florida, is hacking away at salaries for librarians and teachers of art, music and physical education.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Good teachers constantly search for good ideas and effective ways to make learning fun, efficient and thorough. So the search for new material and new ideas is constant.
Same on the web. Where are the good blogs? Where are the useful blogs? (Many days readers here ask those questions repeatedly.)
You’re a teacher, parent, or administrator? Take a look at this open thread at Clay Burrell’s Beyond Teaching (“I hate schooliness. I love learning.”) Clay asked for recommendations on favorite blogs about 21st century teaching.
Isn’t it astounding how many new, good teacher blogs show up every year? I found a dozen new sources in a few minutes.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
1. Through some glitch in the screening process, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub sneaked onto the list. The bubbles in the Bathtub seem deeper and warmer as we just think about it. We’re flattered to be listed, even with an asterisk.
2. There are 49 very good blogs on that list, a few of which I’ve not heard of before, some of my old favorites, and all of them very interesting that I’ve checked out so far. Go check them out. They deserve the traffic. You deserve the information.
In fact, just to give them all a link boost, I’ll copy McLeod’s list below the fold.
School’s out for me, with just a little cleanup and an amazing training burden left for the summer. This last semester has been a doozy. I’ve not blogged nearly so much as I should have. There are a lot of issues left on the table. It’s nice to be on the list; I wish there were more comments. I find the feedback useful, fun, and instructive, like older son Kenny’s chastisement this morning subtly slipped into comments on the Mencken typewriter post.
Where should education bloggers be going, Dear Readers? Where should this blog be going?
McLeod’s list below the fold; comments are open for the whole summer.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Some kind soul nominated this blog for “best education blog” in some award process last year, but that was as far as this blog got. Several good education blogs were nominated, but I wasn’t impressed with the final standings. My candidates didn’t rank 1, 2, or 3.
So, should we swear off blog award? Heck, no! As Roger Beynon would say, everything someone says has potential value. And really, there is a lot of good stuff in a lot of these blogs.
So get on over to the 2007 Weblog Awards page on education, and check out the blogs in the running (do it now — you can vote tonight and tomorrow).
One blog excited me a lot — not because it covers education particularly well, but because it’s done by high school students. It’s solid, and it should give your students an idea of just what they can do. Even if you don’t check out the nominatees, go see the James Logan Courier.
Meanwhile, here are the ten finalists — only one of which I link to on this blogroll, which is a clue that I need to get out more, and a clue that there are a lot of high quality blogs out there:
Finalist Links
The Jose Vilson
Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs
Frumteacher
Hobo Teacher
NYC Educator
Education Week
Matthew K. Tabor, Education for the Aughts
James Logan Courier
The Miss Rumphius Effect
IvyGate
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 