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Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, Textbooks: Evolving, but not Disappearing, on the site A Kick in the Head 1 week ago

Via ArsTechnica’s Future U series of articles:

Textbooks are a thing of the past, says the common wisdom. Well, the common wisdom of the Technorati maybe. The problem with that thinking is that the number one […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Acceptable Use Policy: a COETAIL Course 2 Final Project, on the site Yet Another Blog 1 week, 1 day ago

I hope you’ll keep us updated on how your 1:1 implementation goes!
Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, Be Acceptable., on the site A Kick in the Head 1 week, 1 day ago

Here’s the AUP. I collaborated with my colleagues Justin and Tara for it. Go ahead and read it – it’s only two pages! No legalese, no laundry list of “don’ts,” no ridiculously intricate stipulations about how […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, It’s because we’re a bunch of degenerates, on the site A Kick in the Head 1 week, 4 days ago

My ranting and raving made them pause, think, (occasionally scared my new Asian students), laugh, and once in a while even applaud.

I’m still building up the confidence to be able to do that, but I think I have […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Drawing the Line…Part Two, on the site five.one.five.zero.zero 2 weeks ago

What classes do you think should lead the discussion about digital etiquette – technology classes, homeroom, elsewhere? Kim Cofino did a digital citizenship week at YIS a while back – that’s another model I think […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Video from MacArthur Foundation, on the site Jen's Points to Ponder 2 weeks ago

I’ll give a cynics response to your question: Because in life, sometimes we get to do what we want to do, but most of the time we do what we have to do.

I’m not saying that learning shouldn’t be fun, nor am I […]
Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, Principals Behaving Badly, on the site A Kick in the Head 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Well, here’s another from the edition of “People Behaving Badly Online:”

Suzy Harriston wanted to be friends on Facebook.

The profile said she was from Clayton and had more than 300 friends, many of them from […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, One way to solve bullying, on the site A Kick in the Head 2 weeks, 1 day ago

It’s just ridiculous that we allow interpersonal conflicts to escalate to such a level – especially between CHILDREN. You’d think the parents of the bullies would feel some contrition or responsibility. How can we […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Think Before You Link, on the site A Kick in the Head 2 weeks, 1 day ago

I do think deeper reading is becoming less enticing and relevant to today’s students. In fact, it’s becoming all around less common. Reading for pleasure takes a backseat to videogames and TV; books are eschewed […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, It’s because we’re a bunch of degenerates, on the site A Kick in the Head 2 weeks, 1 day ago

I really can only use crime rates as a proxy for whether people are behaving ethically, and according to the US State Department, The crime rate in the Republic of Korea is low. But I’m not able to control for the […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, It’s because we’re a bunch of degenerates, on the site A Kick in the Head 2 weeks, 5 days ago

I like the idea of doing “whole child” development during a dedicated homeroom period, because you remove the influence of grades and can make it purely about the students. But I can easily see incorporating […]
Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, One way to solve bullying, on the site A Kick in the Head 3 weeks ago

Here’s one approach to the issue of digital citizenship and cyber bullying:

A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Where’s the warning label?, on the site Yet Another Blog 3 weeks, 2 days ago

I don’t think that the model for handling unacceptable online behavior should really be any different from that which we use to handle regular old unacceptable behavior! In both cases they can spill over into […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, It’s because we’re a bunch of degenerates, on the site A Kick in the Head 3 weeks, 2 days ago

It sounds like your school is grappling with the age-old dilemma of whether middle school should be developing students characters or their academics- not that training these is inherently mutually exclusive, but […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Copyright, Mashups, Plagiarism, and Information Management, on the site A Kick in the Head 4 weeks ago

I’m familiar with Evernote – which, along with Google Calendar, organizes my life – and have heard of Diigo, but only heard of Pinterest this week. Yes, I’m terribly behind on all the new Web 2.0 tools (I only […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Think Before You Link, on the site A Kick in the Head 4 weeks ago

I also find that finding nice images and hyperlinks for my blogs really disrupts my writing process. In the end it’s down to self control – with practice, organizing the sequence of writing – linking – adding […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, To Copy or Not To Copy, on the site The TechKnowledgy Room 4 weeks ago

“Is it therefore a question of copying…or a question of what is the ethically acceptable thing to do?”

I think it’s a question of degrees. And for the sake of simplicity, let’s keep the argument to ethics and […]
Matt Kelsey commented on the post, Privacy: the slippery slope, on the site Thinking is the best way to travel 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Here’s the issue with RateMyTeacher.com. Say I’ve been a teacher for 2 years (which I have been). So I’ve taught… 260 students. Now, RateMyTeacher.com is totally voluntary. So say… 5% of students will actually […]
Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, Think Before You Link, on the site A Kick in the Head 1 month ago

There’s a clip from the Pixar movie “Up” that really describes modern reading habits.

When applied to reading, this clip represents how hard it is for today’s students to get through dense texts, or even […]
Matt Kelsey wrote a new post, It’s because we’re a bunch of degenerates, on the site A Kick in the Head 1 month ago

In sixth grade, I was the victim of bullying. Looking back, I can kind of see why: I was unassuming, not terribly self-aware, I wore chunky black wraparound glasses that reflected my parents’ values of function […]
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