Congratulations to Dangerously Irrelevant for flipping everything upsidedown and proving that it is in fact HIGHLY RELEVANT.
To me, it is a badge of honor to shake rattle and roll the establishment to the point that they attempt to shut you up. My experience is that the SYSTEM only gets nervous when we strike too close to home and threaten the status quo. And is there ANY institution more in need of change than our educational system?
"Educational Issue Bloggers" are the peas under the mattresses that are barely perceptible but whose presence cannot be ignored. Effective bloggers (or at least the ones I consider worth reading) raise nettlesome issues and say things in a public forum that might seem a little unusual coming from members of the club itself.
If honesty and transparency are concepts that bother you, you shouldn't blog. In fact, you probably shouldn't even read blogs.
Among other purposes that it serves well, Dangerously Irrelevant leads the way in confronting the ignorant and arbitrary rules and policies that some districts (read that as superintendents and technology directors) impose in a misguided and ineffective effort to control access to the web.
Love your statement about honesty and transparency.
Thank you,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net
Posted by: Miguel Guhlin | November 29, 2007 at 03:12 AM