Archive for February, 2010

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Edge of Education Carnival, a collection of links to the most innovative teachers using and sharing tips and techniques on the cutting edge of teaching and learning. And now, before I get out of the way so you can click around, I’m going to make a shameless plea: If you are a real person . . .better yet, if you are a real teacher (or know one), gosh I’d be honored if you’d consider sharing some of the cool stuff that you do. Please consider submitting to next month’s Edge of Education Carnival.

If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.

People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I’m safe.”

When asked, resist.

Friedman, T. (2005).  The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century.  New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An Annotation This is […]

Goldman, D. (1995).  Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ.  New York, NY: Bantam. An Annotation Another outstanding book explaining the power of […]

Pink, D., Friedman, T. (2008).  Tom Friedman on education in the ‘flat world.’  The School Administrator.  February, 12-18. An Annotation This article is actually an […]

Zhao, Y. (2008).  What knowledge has the most worth?  The School Administrator.  February, 20-26. An Annotation An outstanding article relating how America can and should […]

Burke, J. (2007). Teaching English language arts in a “flat” world.  In Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (149-165). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. An Annotation A […]

Fox, M. (1993).  Notes from the battlefield: toward a theory of why people write. In Radical Reflections (pp 1-22).  New York, NY: Harcourt Publishing. An […]

The Biggest Ideas. Com: Changing How We See, Changing How We Act (2003).  You have three brains.  Retrieved July 11, 2008, from http://www.thebiggestideas.com/cgi-bin/viewps.cgi?you_have_three_brainsps.txt An Annotation […]

Saunders, J., Nelson S. (2004).  Closing gender gaps in science.  Educational Leadership 62 (3) 74-77. An Annotation This article related some very interesting data about […]