21st Century Scholar

21st Century Scholar will be on hiatus for the winter break. Check back in 2010 for new posts, including pod-casting and tweets (http://twitter.com/21stScholar) from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Until then, let it snow…

by Bill Tierney Since this is my last blog of the year and the holidays are right around the corner, I thought it might be useful to help Santa figure out who’s been naughty and who’s been nice in order to determine who gets coal in his/her stocking, and who gets a present: Citizens of [...]

by June Ahn (website) A tremendous amount of excitement and energy is being diverted into technology-based reforms in education these days. Just yesterday the Obama administration, partnering with Sony, and the MacArthur Foundation released their 2010 Digital Media and Learning competition. Does anyone want to create a Little Big Planet level with me that teaches [...]

by Zoe Corwin In my first blog entry on the 21st Century Scholar, I wrote about how I love to use paper and pencil – and since then have expressed my anxiety over balancing all that technology offers us.  So you can imagine my interest when I heard Pat Morrison (of KPFK public radio) interviewing [...]

by Randy Clemens This time two years ago I taught English to tenth and twelfth graders. The tenth graders read Of Mice and Men, which most did not like. The twelfth graders read Dante’s Inferno, which most did like. While all the students counted the days until holiday break, I waited to hear from the nine universities to [...]

by Yvonna Lincoln At the request of the Website’s creator, I agreed to comment a bit on what it has meant to write a book which seemingly has had so much impact, which has been translated into multiple languages (Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese), and which still has some power to draw both commentary and also fire [...]

by Randy Clemens In his classic text, The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Elliot Eisner proposes that qualitative research is a mix of art and science. He begins the book with a telling confession: “The title of this book, The Enlightened Eye, is intimately related to my life as a painter, and my life as [...]

by Bill Tierney Although tenure reviews take a great deal of time and I mentioned that I put them at the top of my list, I also review a fair number of articles for a variety of journals.  There are times when I’ll simply say no.  When I’m on leave, or during the summer, I’ll [...]

by Randy Clemens In the coming months and years, we will increasingly talk about innovation in education. Words like creativity, innovation, transformation, and entrepreneurship will become part of our daily vocabularies. All are catchwords for reform. Larry Cuban, an excellent  scholar, writes about the history of reform (see references). He reliably returns to the same [...]

This post originally appears on my blog: http://bit.ly/5UPRhU As we increasingly utilize social media to interact with others and learn, there are many individuals who return to questions of digital divides. Is there unequal access and participation in these new technologies based on certain indicators such as race, SES, or education? You can find some [...]