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The Future Is Digital
Our kids are more adaptable and resourceful when it comes to integrating new technology into their everyday lives. Snail mail is a thing of the past. Board games seem antiquated peculiarities. Oddly enough, textbooks seem steadfastly in place. Which one doesn’t look like the other?
The Textbook Doledrums
The textbook industry is massive, earning about $4.3b annually. [...]
Video Games & Learning: Games May Not be the Enemy
The familiar warning the boomers grew up with is still being ignored by generation Y and Zers: “X will rot your brain!” It’s a knee-jerk statement chided by parents and inflicted unto kids. “Television” evolved into “Video Games” like Squirtle evolves to Wartortle.
This is where I, and many others, disagree with these concerned parents. The [...]
Student Success: Genius or Perseverance?
When I read the post “To Succeed We Must Fail—A Lot” on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, it reminded me of the keynote speech that Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success, gave at NECC ’09 in June. Gladwell said that one thing many successful people have in common [...]
Is Facebook As Good As Face-to-Face?
As students begin spending more and more of their socializing time on social networking sites, it seems like they would have to spend less time actually talking face to face. In fact, it seems like they don’t even talk on the phone anymore now that they’ve discovered they can text surreptitiously during class. Add to [...]
ISTE Ventures Far and Wide to Offer Professional Development
ISTE will extend its global reach this week when it sends representatives to Australia, Singapore, India, and Mexico to provide professional development to the winning schools of the 2009 HP Innovations in Education grants. ISTE has been doing professional development for this particular HP grant program in the United States [...]
NECC Brings a New Meaning to Social Networking
On July 1, I left Washington D.C headed for home. The NECC conference was over and it was time to sort it all out. When the airport shuttle picked me up, there was only one other passenger, also headed for the Baltimore Airport, Dr. James Bower.
James Bower – a well renowned scientist, writer, teacher, visionary [...]
Department of Education Releases Ed Tech Guidance
Today, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance on EETT ARRA funds; a notice Notice of Proposed Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria for Race to the Top grants; grant announcement for the State Longitudinal Data Systems and information on Title I School Improvement: SFSF Phase II dollars and other ARRA programs.
Race to the Top [...]
The Technology Behind Livestreaming NECC 2009
In very broad terms NECC is all about finding new and innovative ways to expand your personal and professional learning networks. This year’s online coverage of the conference attempted to expand that professional development to viewers around the world. With a simple search for the “#necc09” hashtag in your favorite twitter client it was possible [...]
Finding Balance
I have had a post brewing in my head for a very long time and I think this is the perfect forum in which to bring this issue to light. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss a problem that so many of us have, but are unwilling to acknowledge. The issue I [...]
NECC Exhibitors Bring Ed Tech to Life
I had such an amazing time helping the ISTE Connects team document NECC this year. With the internet at our fingertips, it’s easy to check out the latest products in educational technology, but seeing the top names in technology taking up a 473,000 square foot exhibit floor was overwhelming to say the least. Coming down [...]
