Bruce Springsteen gave the keynote address at the just ended South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin. The Boss’s remarks focused on the meaning of music in his own musical development. His entire talk can be found here at NPR. As I listened I heard him say something that gave me pause […]
Connected Coaching – Adventures in Cloud Based Learning
A little over a month ago, I started taking an online course called “Connected Coaching” offered by Powerful learning Practice- Professional Development for 21st Century Educators. I discovered this learning opportunity in a tweet posted by Caren Levine (@jlearn20). It’s making quite an impact on me because when I started the course I had no […]
After the First Step, Comes the Second
Technology Covenant
Milken Community High School
Rabbi Gordon Barnat Kunin
Rabbi Sara Brandes
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
As a member of the Milken Community, I commit myself to the following:
Of Mahler, Cellphones and Trees
A few weeks ago I learned on NPR about a collision between 21st century technology and early 20th century classical music. It seems that in the middle of a particularly moving portion of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony someone’s cellphone began to ring. The conductor lowered his baton, silencing the orchestra, and waited for the offending device […]
Asking the Right Question
It’s that time of year when lists seem to abound: Best Music of 2011; Most Trending Topic of 2011; Person of the Year; Top Movies of 2011 and on and on and on. This prompted me to think about what were the past year’s most influential ideas in Jewish education. When I asked colleagues what […]
Teaching Israel, Warts and All
I have the good fortune to be working with a nationally based group of educators and teens associated with the iCenter’s MZ Teen Israel Internship. The purpose of this program is to follow up on teens’ Israel summer experiences, through a framework consisting of a series of yearlong educational and social activities. The young people […]
Occupy Jewish Education
Something has been bothering me lately. Where are all the congregational educators? Let me back up. If you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I’ve been taking part in on-line conversations about Jewish education. They’ve been great. They’ve opened doors that lead to a bevy of potential Jewish futures. But there’s one element that […]
The Big Bang – Adventures in Cyberspace
The universe is expanding. That’s the core of the Big Bang Theory. As the cosmos gets older, everything in it moves apart. Not to delve too much into such esoterica like Hubbles Law, I need to affirm – אני מאמין – I’m a believer. In the last week I experienced something akin to this phenomenon in […]
Steve Jobs, the Consumer, and Inventing the Jewish Future
Of all the recent retrospectives of the late Steve Jobs, the one that has had the most impact on me contained the observation that he “hated traditional market research”. It was a comment made by one of the guests (advertising consultant, Cindy Gallup) on the public radio show “The Take Away” on Friday, October 7. […]
Of Quills, iPads and the New York Times
The other day I opened up my print copy of the New York Times (yes, I still rely on that ancient form of technology: The printed newspaper.) I couldn’t help but notice the article on the front page, above the fold: Grading the Digital School: In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores. The piece described how […]
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