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Introducing Kaya Hardin Our New ISTE Connects Community Manager
For the last two weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working side by side with Kaya Hardin the newly appointed Community Manager for ISTE Connects. For you Uber-tech geeks out there you should know that when I say working side by side I actually mean video conferencing via Skype and collaborating via Basecamp, both are [...]
There Will Be Casualties in The Social Media Revolution
I was inspired to write about this topic by a recent exchange with a friend, which concerned the use of Twitter and various blogging practices for educators. My friend is a new educator in a very tech-centric district in California, and they have a fairly limited tech background and an even more limited social media [...]
Is Facebook The Enemy of Education?
While researching Facebook applications for education, I came across a post entitled, “Study says Facebook can impact studies.” The following quote was very concerning because it was both shortsighted and backed with very little data:
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” Karpinski said. “Every generation has its distractions, [...]
Education Technology Powered By Students
Terms like “Web 2.0” and “Social Media” are thrown around a lot these days to highlight concepts in technology that many of us find new and exciting. You would be hard pressed to find a group of people, especially educators, that would all agree on what the definitions of these terms are. This is because [...]
Defense Contractor Raytheon to Target Education with Computer Modeling
If I hadn’t read it for myself, I would not have believed the news: Defense contractor, Raytheon, just completed the first-ever computer simulation and modeling tool to aid in policy making for the U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education system. This modeling tool is open-source and now in the possession of BHEF (Business-Higher [...]
Connecting with the Global Ed Tech Community at NECC
If you were physically present in DC for NECC 2009 then it wasn’t hard to figure out that this years conference had a tremendous turnout, but you might not have considered how large and diverse the online community that attended virtually via ISTE Connects was. The virtual attendee numbers tell a great story about NECC [...]
Leadership Day 2009: An Inspiring Movement to Bridge The Tech Gap
Recently my attention has been on Scott McLeod’s campaign, Leadership Day 2009. His campaign put a call out for all bloggers and other techies, specifically educational technology bloggers, to create content that will help leaders in education (i.e. principals, superintendents, central office administrators), become inspired to embrace technology. From what I can tell, Leadership Day [...]
Google Chrome OS on Every Netbook in Every Classroom
Google made a key strategic move this week by announcing the existence of Google Chrome OS, which focuses on optimizing the user experience for those of us who “live on the web.” You can read more about the official announcement on Google’s Blog. Google’s new OS will be resources conscious, while easily working on x86 [...]
Reflect on NECC 2009 and Make Suggestions for ISTE 2010
Now that NECC 2009 has come and gone, it is time we take a look at the highlights from our trip to DC. We’ve created two Google documents; the first asks you to tell us about your favorite moment at NECC 2009. Was your favorite moment meeting virtual friends IRL (in real life) at the [...]
[Video] NECC 2009 Keynote with Malcom Gladwell and More
There’s been so much great content captured and streamed through out NECC 2009. The following video of the NECC 2009 Keynote with Malcolm Gladwell has been posted by ISTE Vision. There’s big debate going on in this post about his talk, which also contains a full live blog of the keynote. The full video is [...]
