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One of the great promises of the digital age is the paperless workplace. The only problem is, people like paper (and books and printers and scantrons) and have often tended to keep both digital and paper copies of important information. While some businesses have moved in the direction of a paperless workplace, few educational institutions [...]

Sometimes in education, we are moving so fast, we fail to see that the playing field has changed beneath us. I believe now is one of those times where things are rapidly changing under our feet, but at times we fail to notice. Online security is rapidly changing, and I’m not sure education in general [...]

Meetings are a cornerstone of the shared decision making process in education. And yet, it has been my experience that meetings are often thrown together at the last minute. I am of the belief that EVERY meeting of any importance should have one or more goals, and a written agenda. With that in mind, here [...]

While visiting the Education World website, I happened upon this great School Culture Triage survey. The idea behind this survey is to quickly and accurately evaluate a school’s culture. According to the article containing the survey: “In every case, the higher the school culture score, the better the school was ranked. The lower the survey [...]

The term MBWA is a “strategic management” term dating back decades. Apparently, it originated with the Hewlett Packard company, where HP Managers would seldom be at their desks. Instead, they would be found out with their employees, walking around the company. This idea of MBWA is having a revival of sorts in education, where managers [...]

One of the great worries I have regarding my computer science students is that they spend way too much time sitting at their computers indoors.  I always joke to them that their lack of tans and muscle tone is an obvious sign that they are computer geeks.  It turns out that studies have been done [...]

For a long time, a $100 laptop has been discussed as a possible solution to the Global Digital Divide. Basically, the “digital divide” refers to the fact that under-devleoped countries don’t have ready access to technology. This is especially true in areas like Africa, where Internet access is rare. Well, the XO-1 Computer is finally [...]

“A train is heading toward five workers standing on the tracks. They will die if the train is not diverted. Their only hope is for you to throw a switch that will divert the train. The only problem is, by diverting the train, one person will die on the alternate track.” According to an interesting [...]

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