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Who Needs RFID Tracking If You Have A 1:1 iPad Program? 24 Jun 2013 | 10:55 pm
While not widespread, a fair number of school districts have used RFID tracking devices to track the location of school kids. From the perspective of a school or district, using RFID to track kids ca...
If A Test Falls In A Classroom 20 Jun 2013 | 11:17 pm
It is difficult to keep up with the amount of misinformation spewed on a regular basis about the Common Core standards. The conversation is complicated because, depending on who is talking, the words ...
Manufactured Crisis: Education Schools and the National Council on Teacher Quality 18 Jun 2013 | 11:27 pm
Update: Bruce Baker, over at School Finance 101, has a more detailed breakdown of the NCTQ report. End Update The National Council on Teacher Quality put out a report that is it describing as "an unp...
Bullying: One Kid Talking To Another About Not Taking A Test 17 Jun 2013 | 04:43 am
While collecting up my thoughts after the Portland Public Schools Common Core event last week, I came across this set of talking points written by the district "as a support to principals and teachers...
How Common Core Should Be Rolled Out 14 Jun 2013 | 12:36 am
After attending the Portland Public Schools Common Core parent event, I've been thinking about the event, the people tasked to staff it, and the split between the Common Core standards, what our kids ...
Parent Information Night On The Common Core 13 Jun 2013 | 08:57 pm
Last night, on Tuesday, June 12th, I attended what was called a "Parent's Academy" on the in-progress Common Core rollout. The event was put on by Portland Public Schools. The goal of the event was st...
Hiding Behind Metadata 9 Jun 2013 | 08:20 pm
In reading through the coverage of the ongoing data collection by the government, one of the ways that people obfuscate the depth of the privacy intrusion is by hiding behind the term "metadata." Dav...
How Are Schools Using Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook Explaining Surveillance? 8 Jun 2013 | 08:28 am
At the risk of stating the obvious, I've been following the news of widespread data collection by the NSA with some interest. After watching things continue to unfold today - including President Obam...
How Can We Teach Privacy? 7 Jun 2013 | 06:32 pm
Based on recent reports, it sounds like the NSA is regularly collecting data from major phone companies, nine major tech companies, and from credit card companies and ISPs (although it's not clear whe...
Re-usable content, back to the basics, and knowing your tools 5 Jun 2013 | 06:17 pm
I've been on this kick lately of looking at the original architects of the web and what people were doing at that time. This picked up steam in January, 2013, right after our Open Content Authoring Da...
