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Tablet-based education just inched that much closer.

Alan Sitomer — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:01:35 +0000

Amazon’s announcement of the new Kindle Fire has certainly caused a ton of people to weigh in in all sorts of ways on the implications for us “user folks”. Some will be right, some will be wrong but one thing

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Hey aspiring writers, wanna save $50,000? I got a little secret…

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:01:23 +0000

Hey aspiring writers, wanna save $50,000? I got a little secret: Skip the MFA program and get yourself a library card.

Before the hate mail launches look, I don’t think for a moment that I just launched any kind of

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Where ya been, Alan?

Alan Sitomer — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:01:03 +0000

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front as of late because of how busy I have been, both as an author and as an educator.

Over the course of the past three weeks, I’ve been in Georgia,

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Revealing my intimate secrets

Alan Sitomer — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:00:48 +0000

5 Things You Should Know About Alan Sitomer

1. Like a dog, he pees with one leg up.

2. He’s a teacher, he’s an author, he likes to read and he likes school (which means he’s a NERD to the third

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Are fake kids ever real kids? (a.k.a. Do avatars fart in class?)

Alan Sitomer — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:00:16 +0000

And in a sign that the world of education just became even more dystopian, I offer you this article… a piece about how real teachers can now cut their teeth and practice being a teacher on virutal students.

As the article…

The checklist and the checklist checkers; a paradoxical tango

Alan Sitomer — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:00:35 +0000

Is there anything more enjoyable/memorable/inspirational than having a bunch of admins in business wear cruise through your room in the middle of class wielding checklists?

They gaze at the walls, your demeanor, the students in their desks, and so on,…

Dear Alan: Gangs and Violence on Campus (Part II)

Alan Sitomer — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:00:57 +0000

Yesterday I blogged about how I was thinking of adding an occasional Dear Alan wrinkle to my blogs. This was a question posed to me.

Hi Alan, Could you please do a blog about rosaries being a sign of gang

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Dear Alan: Gangs and Violence on Campus

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:58 +0000

With all the WOW stuff flying around, I am thinking about starting a Dear Alan column because I’m getting more and more and more emails from people asking me for my take on matters that really, well… they have no…

The 5 W’s of school

Alan Sitomer — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:21 +0000

We’ve all heard about the 5 W’s of writing. The Who, What, Where, When and Why. (Also, there’s the H: the How).

But when I apply the 5 W’s to school, it seems pretty clear to me that there is…

Student to teacher ratios; we have reason for shame.

Alan Sitomer — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:00:49 +0000

Anyone who says that size does not matter is not a classroom teacher. The notion is pure and total BS!!

And when I hear stories of how middle school class sizes are now averaging 40 to 1 in San Francisco,…