What’s New?

November 2009

“Point/Counterpoint: Do Schools Still Need Bricks and Mortar Libraries?” Leading & Learning, November 2009.

“Format Bigotry” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, November/December 2009.

When it comes to technology use in schools, every responsible educator’s first concern should be student safety. Therefore, we should immediately ban one of the most potentially harmful technologies now within our walls: the pencil. We must erase them from schools because:

    • A student might use a pencil to poke out the eye of another student.
    • A student might write a dirty word, a threatening note to another student, or test cheat sheet, with a pencil.
    • One student might have a mechanical pencil, making those with wooden ones feel bad.
    • The pencil might get stolen.
    • Pencils break and need constant repair.
    • Kids just use pencils to doodle instead of working on assignments or listening to the teacher.

I propose that congress take up legislation to protect our children right away. We could call the bill, “Just What’s the Point?”

These kind of questions drive me bonkers:

    • Should we ban games from our library?
    • Should we block social networking sites in our building?
    • Should kids be allowed to access to video/audio streaming sites in our district?

Questions like that make about as much sense as asking:

    • Should we be ban books from our libraries?
    • Should we allow kids to have pencils and paper in our building?
    • Should kids be allowed to watch DVDs in our district?

Why, when thinking about which resources schools give or ban student access, do adults so often start with format as opposed to the content of that format when determining appropriateness? Continued in LMC Magazine

October 2009

“Things that keep us up at night” (with Joyce Valenza) School Library Journal, October 2009.

“Leadership or Management?,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, October 2009.

September 2009

“800 Words,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, August/September 2009.

 

Summer 2009

Libraries for a Post-Literate Society Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, July/August 2009

Four articles republished in The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology: Selections from Volumes 31-35, ISTE, 2009.

2008-09 Head for the Edge Columns from LMC online

SayWire White Paper: Connections for Learning, 2009.

May 2009

“Make a Copyright U-Turn and 5 Other Audacious Statements about Copyright and Educational Fair Use,” Learning & Media (Pennsylvania School Library Association), Spring 2009.

“Creative Commons and Why It Should Be More Commonly Undersood,” Library Media Connection, May/June 2009.

“Starting Off on the Right Foot,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, May/June 2009.

Who is “they?” TechProof column, Education World, May 2009

April 2009

Life in the Cloud, TechProof column, Education World, April 2009

March 2009

Not All Who Twitter are Twits TechProof column, Education World, March 2009

“Constructive Criticism,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, March/April 2009.

February 2009

Seven Brilliant Uses Teachers Make of Technology TechProof column, Education World, February 2009

January 2009


“Seven Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make with Technology” TechProof column, Education World, January, 2009

“Building Capacity for Empathy,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, January/February 2009.

November 2008


“Netbooks and computing in the clouds” TechProof column, Education World, November, 2008

“The Other Shoe Redux,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, November/December 2008.

October 2008

‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad (c)?” School Library Journal, October 2008.

“The importance of an aggregator,” TechProof column, Education World, October, 2008

“From Cop to Counselor on Copyright,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, October 2008.

September 2008

“Dangers and Opportunities: Challenges for Libraries in the Digital Age” Educational Technology Solutions (Australia), Issue 25, Fall 2008.

“Continuing Education,” Head for the Edge column, Library Media Connection, August/September 2008.

“Five for Fun: Image Generators,” TechProof column, Education World, September 2008