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2012

2011

November, 2011	Is the iPad a Game Changer?
September, 2011	Escaping the Filter Bubble Where is the off switch?
Summer, 2011	Stumbling toward Insight
May, 2011	Learning to trust the amateurs somewhat
March, 2011	Knowtation Alone Together — A Review Laptop Writing and Thinking
January, 2011	Combatting Mental Brownout in the Classroom Digital Pedagody 101

2010

November, 2010	Wordless is Clueless Addressing Tech A.D.D.
September, 2010	Over-Equipped?
May, 2010	Studying Complex Concepts such as Beauty, Truth and Courage in Depth A Focus on History, Literacies and ICT: Bringing the Australian National History Curriculum to Life
March, 2010	Why we still need libraries and librarians Beauty and the Beast: Using Digital Riches to Enhance Learning
January, 2010	A 21st Century Skills Bookmark Building Challenging Lessons Quickly with Digital Resources

2009

November, 2009	Flickring Heights: Using Digital Photography to Spark Student Invention
September, 2009	Placemats: They're Not Just For Dining Review: Media Literacy Resources from New Mexico Play, Experimentation and Improvisation
Summer, 2009	Making Sense of Images from History: Will the Real Joan of Arc Stand Up?
May, 2009	A Taxonomy of Synthetic Thought and Production VocabGrabber: A Review
March, 2009	Reading Across a Dozen Literacies Reading Between Digital Lines
January, 2009	A True Original

2008

November, 2008	Getting Attention in the Laptop Classroom
September, 2008	Beyond Cut-and-Paste: Engaging Students in Wrestling with Questions of Import
Summer, 2008	Beyond Mere Gathering: Converting Social Networking into Collaboration and Synergy
May	Making Sense? A Review of Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind What Digital Age? After NCLB: Back to the Basics of Inquiry and Comprehension
March	Breaking the YouTube Blockade Searching for the Grail The New Reality: Making Sense of the World in an Age of Distortion
January	Beyond Powerpoint The Brave New Citizen

2007

November	Digital Nativism, Digital Delusions and Digital Deprivation Learning authentically in the language arts classroom
September	Teaching social studies authentically A review of The Cult of the Amateur
April	What's wrong with a cheap computer?
February	Putting an End to Topical Research

2006

December	Photoshopping Reality: Journalistic Ethics in a Time of Virtual Truth
October	Managing the Poverty of Abundance Feeling Lucky? The Image Blockade
Summer	Nothing but Net - The NoTime Slam Dunk Lesson
June	One Liners, Bloggery and Tomfoolery The Online Professor Takes an Online Course The Technology Treadmill The Java Blockade
April	The NAEP, Comprehesion, Literacy, Technology NEXUS Creating to Learn: Has technology fulfilled its promise in your classroom? A Review . . . Internet Based Student Research: Creating to Learn with a Step-By-Step Approach
February	Finding the Deep Internet When You Need It

2005

December	Inspired Writing and Inquiry
October	Wondering with and about Images
Summer	Power Reading and the School Library
June	Questions of Import: Introducing Biography Maker 2.0 Singular Displeasure: Technology, Literacy and Semantic Power Plays
April	When the Real Thing Just Isn't Good Enough Smushing: A Low Grade Synthesis
February	Big Brother Comes to School Telling Teachers What to Read and What to Believe Legal and Constitutional Issues

2004

Summer	Five Types of Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
June	Stuffing Technology into the Curriculum The Sudden Unwelcome Death of E-mail
April	The Techno-Savvy, Book-Rich Media Center The Technology Fix: The Promise and Reality of Computers in Our Schools
February	A Road Map for Change The Great Question Press: Squeezing Import from Content
January	Hitting the Books: Back to the Library Two Photo Galleries: 1. Wonder Boxes and Wonderful Books 2. Was Bowie a Hero? How Teachers Learn

2003

December	One Flew Over the High School What is Smart Tech?
November	The Churn Artist Cometh The New Homework (Revised)
October	Images Can Make Powerful Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
September	The Slam Dunk Digital Lesson The Internet-only Research Approach: Does the Web really have all there Is to say? Assessing the Impact of the Maine Laptop Program School by School
Summer	Leading by Example: The High Touch High Tech Principal
June	Evidence, Intelligence and Presumption Writing in the Right Way
May	The Technology Presumption: Could Integrating Technology Sometimes be Wrong-Minded? Focus on the Locus
April	Beyond Bamboozlement Questioning as Technology
March	The True Cost of Ownership
February	Practicing What We Preach Simple truth is NOT always truth at all
January	Inspired Investigations Just in Time Technology

2002

December	Haphazardous Planning: Trusting (Foolishly) to Chance and Happenstance Other Worldly Learning
November	Matters of Movement Register Your Copyright!
October	Market Penetration is Not Integration The New Operating Systems - Must Have? or Must Miss? Busted Flat in Battery Land
September	The Slam Dunk Digital Lesson The Internet-only Research Approach: Does the Web really have all there Is to say?
Summer	Leading by Example: The High Touch High Tech Principal
June	The Internet and the Upper Elementary Classroom: Making a Difference? The Medium is Not the Literacy Review: Bringing the Internet to School Review: The Invisible Computer Review: Teaching with Technology: Creating Student-Centered Classrooms
May	Tech Smart: Making Discerning Technology Choices Review: Learning by Heart
April	Beware the Visionary After Laptop Is Sharing Out of the Question? Review: Leading in a Culture of Change
March	Prospecting for Digital Resources Look before You Leap Review: The Connected School
February	Avoiding Secondhand Thinking Teaching Inference, Interpretation and Analysis with New (and Old) Technologies Review: The First Computer Mouse Review: Oversold and Underused
January	Traits of an Effective Tech Coach and EdTech Program The Overly Equipped Classroom Off Road Thinking: Looking for Great Surprises

2001

November December	The Post Installation Action Plan Paper Works Still Creating Curriculum Rich Technology Plans with Site-Based Teams
October	Power Learning at NECC 2001: Wireless and Engaged Learning to Go Unplugged Coaching as Professional Development
September	Building Good Ideas - Part Two Toolishness is Foolishness An End to Surfing? Online Education: Eldorado or Fool's Gold?
June	Building Good Ideas Mixing Media and Metaphors
May	Verity: The Search for Truth Technology in its Place: A Review I am my office. I am everywhere?
April	E-mail Opens Up a World of Possibilities The Great Turning Point Payola on the Information Highway? Beware the Grey Flannel Trojan Horse
March	Guilty Until Proven Innocent: State DOE Filters From Now On How Teachers Learn Technology Best (Revisited) Is Virtual Schooling a Virtual Reality?
February	Weeding the Garden Horse before Cart Skirting the Education Dot Bomb From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning
January	The Unwired Classroom: Wireless Computing Comes of Age

2000

November- December	First Things First: Networking for Student Learning Pacing Change
October	The New Vertical File: Delivering Great Images and Data to the Desktop Speaking of Fool's Gold The Research Gap
September	Scoring PowerPoints: Finding Your Way through Data Smog Beyond Edutainment and Infotainment
Summer 2000	The Ties that Bind and the Links that Set Us Free Winning with Information Literacy
June	Making Good Change Happen What's the Story here?
May	Beyond Information Power Review: The Social Life of Information
April	The New Lesson Plan Thinking about a Child's Need for Reflection The New New School Thing
March	When the Book? When the Net? The Software Trap
February	Network Starvation What's Next?
January	The New Library in the Wired School No Free Lunch on the Internet

1999

December	Scaffolding for Success Research Cycle 2000
November	Questions and Questioning: The Greatest Technologies of All Teaching to the Standards Book Review - Silicon Venom: Clifford Stoll's New Book Argues against Computers in Schools
October	Students in Resonance: Provoking Fresh Thought and Deep Reasoning with Dissonance, Contrast and Juxtaposition Respecting Heritage and the Classics while Mining the Millennium The Devoted Visitor and the Visit without Walls
September	Beyond IT: The Failure of IT to Transform Schools Why Choice Matters in Professional Development
Summer	Reaching the Reluctant Teacher
June	Teaching Media Literacy Beyond ClipArt The Dangers of Ignoring History and the Research on Change in Schools
May	Strategic Deployment of Hardware to Maximize Readiness Staff Use and Student Achievement Since when is Adult a Dirty Word?
April	Scoring High with New Technologies Beware of CEOs Bearing Gifts TemplateArt, TemplateThinking, MultiMediocracy and Other TomFoolery
February	A Brave New World of Padlocked Libraries and Unstaffed Schools? Networking for Daily Research Bookshelf Attacks Museums
January	Waste Not - Want Not

1998

December	Strategic Teaching in Concert with New Technologies
November	Digital Learning
October	Look Before You Leap! Information Literacy: A Clarification The World Wide Web: Cyber Chaos or Learning Journey? The CyberPilot's License
September	Forming an Information Literate School Community The Laptop Fallacy The Remedy: First the Purpose, Then the Design The Missing Piece: Strategic Teaching
June	The Mind Candy Kafe: Replacing Truth with Placebo
May	The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
April	Networking Schools: Managing Quandaries, Dilemmas and Conundrums
March	The WIRED Classroom: Creating Technology Enhanced Student-Centered Learning Environments
February	Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools
January	Searching for the Grail: Power Searching with Digital Logic Web Based Staff Development: Creating Commitment with Online Learning

1997

November December	A Questioning Toolkit Of Chickens and Projects Using Your WITs With Writing Assignments
October	The Question is the Answer: Research Programs for An Age of Information A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Graphical Organizers as Thinking Technology The Research Cycle Reach Out and Touch Something: Virtual Reality Transforms Virtual Museums, Online Exhibits and Exploratoriums
September	Making the Net Work for School: Online Research Modules Telling Questions and the Search for INSIGHT Technology's Promise: Responding to the LA Times
June	Why Network Schools? Evaluating Web Info
May	In Defense of the Textbook Digital Photography
April	The Internet (Information) Ready School
March	Deep Reading and Deep Thinking Why in the World Wide Web? Reasons for Schools to Launch Web Sites
February	The New Homework
January	The Web as Curriculum

1996

November/December

The Disneyfication of History
and Why We Still Need Libraries, Books and Librarians

October

The Post Modem School

September

The Internet Bandwagon?

June

Keeping it Legal - Issues Arising Out Of Web Site Management

May

Info-Glut, Info-Garbage and Info-Treasure

April/March

Filtering the Web: A Tale of Fishnet Stockings and Swiss Cheese

January/February

Virtual Galleries vs. Virtual Museums
Going Home: A Journey to the Heart of the Learning Process
Evaluating the Impact of Technology:
The Less Simple Answer

1995

December '95 - "Did anybody learn anything?"
Assessing Technology Programs and the Learning Accomplished

November '95 - Mucking about the Web:
A Fine Performance Art

October '95 - The Breaking Edge of Change:
Strategies to Manage
Rampant and Chaotic Innovation

September '95 - Crossing the Great Divide:
Adult Learning for Integrative and Innovative
Use of Technologies with Students

Septenber '95 - Cutting to the Chase:
Leading Teachers and Students to the "Right Stuff"
with WWW Curriculum Pages

June, 1995----Protecting Our Children from the Internet (and the World).

May, 1995----Creating Board Policies for Student Use of the Internet

February/March, 1995----When the Book? When the Internet?

January, 1995----Virtual Museums / Microsoft Bookshelf / Chunky Software

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1994

January, 1994-----More is less . . . sometimes : Comparing Electronic Encyclopedias

February, 1994-----Creating Tech Plans for Individual Sites: Key Elements & Key Questions----- Site-Based Management for Technology Planning:: Group Think, Gridlock and the Grail-----Shifting the Comfort Zone: Staff Development to Counter Technology Refusal

March, 1994-----Culling the Net: A Lesson on the Dark Side & Dancing Past Obsolescence

April, 1994-----Rubber Rooms, User-Friendly Gateways and Robust Learning

May, 1994----Technology Refusal: A Reprise

June, 1994 -----Pearling: Internet or CD-ROM &. Magic WANs: The Future is Now

September, 1994----Bandwidth Hogs & Other Culprits----Firewalls or Censorship?----Virtual Truth

October, 1994----Virtual Truth

November/December, 1994----Teflon Learning

1993

January, 1993-----Open-Minded School Decision-Making

February, 1993 -----Creating Flexible District Technology Plans

March, 1993-----Technology Literacy and Recruitment & A Rather Unique Long Range Technology Plan

April, 1993 -----Her Story, Their Story and His Story: Technologies and Equitable History

May, 1993-----Assessing Staff Technology Competence

June, 1993-----Newtonian Possibilities: Frontier Technologies and Schools

September, 1993-----Barriers to New Technologies - Part One: Staff Balkanization

October, 1993----- Barriers to New Technologies, Part Two: Skill Fixation in Staff Development

November, 1993-----Libraries of the Future

December, 1993-----Grazing the Net

1992

April, 1992 -----Taming the Minotaur Tales of Heroism, Wizardry, and Courage in the Life of Paradigm Shifters

May, 1992 ----- Restructuring and the New Technologies: Conflict or Compatibility?

June, 1992 ----- Essential Election Questions---Social Studies Education in the Information Age

September, 1992 ----- Judging the Success of New Technologies

October, 1992 ----- Sense from Non-Sense: Making Meaning with Statistics---Creating Effective District Technology Plans

November, 1992 ----- The Fine Art of Paradigm Busting and Flexadigm Breeding

December, 1992-----Open-Minded School Decision-Making

1991

April, 1991 ----- Designing Staff Development for the Information Age

May, 1991 ----- Engendering a Change Ethic in the Next Generation---Measuring Attitudes toward Change in Teaching Staff: The Davis/McKenzie Teacher Adaptability Quotient Scale and Scoring Sheet

June, 1991 ----- Measuring Results: What happens to student writing with the word processor?"--- District Technology Assessment Form

September, 1991 -----The Art of the Deal - No Trump: Grant-Writing and Educational Foundations for Difficult Times--- Disarming the Cyclops: Using Channel One to Teach Visual Literacy

October, 1991 -----1.Innovation vs. Stability in Organizations: What Price Change?--- 2.Breakfast of Champions: Using Metaphor to Create a Change Ethic--- 3.May the Force Go with You: Improving Education In the Age of the Smart Machine--- 4.Project Firsthand: A Crash Course in Workplace Basics--- 5.Supervising for Thinking: White Water Rafting, Victory Banquets and other Mixed Metaphors

November, 1991 ----- The Saga of Amy and Susan: A "Future Perfect" ILS --- The Great Debate: Are CAI and ILS worth the investment?

December, 1991-----The Art of Persuasion: Marketing New Technologies to Key Constituents

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From Now On Index Page

November/December	The Disneyfication of History and Why We Still Need Libraries, Books and Librarians
October	The Post Modem School
September	The Internet Bandwagon?
June	Keeping it Legal - Issues Arising Out Of Web Site Management
May	Info-Glut, Info-Garbage and Info-Treasure
April/March	Filtering the Web: A Tale of Fishnet Stockings and Swiss Cheese
January/February	Virtual Galleries vs. Virtual Museums Going Home: A Journey to the Heart of the Learning Process Evaluating the Impact of Technology: The Less Simple Answer