Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

My top 11 posts from 2006

It’s a new year: a good time to reflect on my past 4+ months of blogging. It’s been quite an adventure. My learning has been exponential on a number of different fronts because of this blog. Here are what I consider to be my 10 most important posts of 2006 (in chronological order):

Servant leadership? (August 23)

Defeatist schools (August 24)

Who are our technology leaders? – Part 2 (August 25)

It’s the first day of school! (September 5)

Why blog as an administrator? – Wrap-up (September 11)

Digital kids. Analog schools. (September 14)

Are educational leadership faculty future-oriented? (September 19)

Not enough time to be data-driven (October 18)

Gaming, cognition, and education – Wrap-up (October 30)

Riding llamas in Peru (November 8)

And, of course, the most important post of all was my first one!

This is going to be harder next year when I have an entire year’s worth of posts to sift through…

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

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