Incredible presentation on standing out: For the first 15 years of sliced bread, no one bought it. It’s about can you get your idea to spread or not? What we are living in is a century of difusion. Consumers don’t care about you, they have more choices than they ever have and less time.
This page shows the common sequence I use when introducing students to new technology. The first step is the ‘play’ step, and I believe that play is an essential step for students learning new technologies. This step gives the students free reign to explore the new tools without having “serious work” to accomplish. This stage …
“Reverse mentoring is a concept borne of the information age… Reverse mentoring asks the younger, technologically savvier youngsters to tutor or support the older generation in learning how to leverage social media, blogs, email, cloud-based services, and other tools that we now have at our disposal.” — Meredith Ely What if the most meaningful professional …
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“As educators, we are always looking for the best ways to help our students learn and retain the knowledge and skills they need in life,” said Adina Popa, technology resource teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools, Virginia. “We know student engagement is a key factor in that, and with a tool like Kinect, we are …
After recently listening to this week’s Back to Work, I have been working to declutter. Unlike Merlin and Dan, I am not to the point where I can sit down and go through mass amounts of acquired clutter attachments, but what I have been able to do is freely throw away the clutter that I …
Reading articles like this, just reminds me that when people are passionately engaged in a topic or area of research, they will go through any lengths to continue to learn. Any one of them could have stopped us at any point along the way, and there were many anxious times when we thought the exploration …
Paul Thomas makes an excellent point here. Paulo Freire makes a distinction between “authoritarian” (“Do as I say, not as I do” and “Do as I say although I have never done it”) and “authoritative” (Let me guide you to becoming a writer because I am a writer”). And this is where I now see why authority …
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong. I’m afraid it’s schools: Yet the truth remains that most of our classrooms remain rooted firmly in the 20th century. Many, perhaps most, of our teachers do not use 21st century tools. There are various reasons for this. They …
More and more sites and blogs are talking about the Apple announcement that will concern education on January 19. The only statement from Apple is that the announcement will be about education and textbooks. While I anxiously await for the announcement, I tend to agree with Ian Quillen who suggests: The bigger question, according to Mashable, is …
The plethora of digital media is impacting many different avenues and professions including newspapers: The market values analog readers more highly than digital ones because the market is right. Seeing this, several people have started looking for ways to exit that market. One of the most widely circulated of these ideas is David Swenson and …
