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Apple iPad and Education: Teacher’s Aid or Student Learning Tool?

The wait is over and, to few people’s surprise; Steve Jobs announced the addition of a tablet product to Apple’s addictive line of i-tech.

While edtech-gurus are wiping up the pools of drool from their keyboards, it’s time to take a step back and look at what the iPad can do for educators and students.
Of all [...]

Using Technology to Learn and to Connect

Technology has put the world at our finger tips – and also made the world our audience. It is as simple to go and talk to a friend next door as it is to share an experience or a nugget of wisdom with your PLN—people from anywhere in the world, and people that you have [...]

A Teaching Moment: Introducing Students to their Cyber-selves

Every term I struggle with a conversation I have with my students at the start of the class. Because I teach about social media, I have a frank discussion with my undergraduate students about protecting their reputation. This term, I did something a little different.
I have only 17 students in my class, so the weekend [...]

Assessment and Broadband Access – Avenues to Equity?

Thanks to everyone for visiting this online discussion. We’re especially grateful for the tweets, comments, cross posts, alternate lists, and additional education priorities you’ve shared. Your contributions are important and timely!
How timely? Here are just a few of the key issues we’re tracking:
• In the US, we’re expecting national plans for education technology and broadband [...]

Celebrating National Handwriting Day in the Computer Age

Every year on January 23 (John Hancock’s birthday) the country celebrates National Handwriting Day. Sponsored by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA), this obscure holiday explores the power and purity of handwriting.

I admit that my handwriting is atrocious. I am embarrassed to jot notes and am far more comfortable with a keyboard and screen than [...]

Helping Young Educators Keep Their Balance

Remember how excited you were your first few weeks as an educator? How full of promise each student interaction seemed, how you could barely wait to get to your office or classroom or computer lab each morning?

That’s because there’s something implicitly hopeful about working in education. Knowing that the work you’re doing, the knowledge you’re passing [...]

Do ISTE’s “Top Ten in ‘10” Ed Tech Priorities Reflect Your Issues?

Welcome to 2010 and to this ISTE Connects conversation!  From my home base in Washington DC, it looks to be a New Year full of possibility and challenge.  We face daunting budget deficits at all levels of government and find ourselves struggling to maintain robust funding for classroom technology.
As part of ISTE’s advocacy efforts this [...]

Trashing the Textbook Saves Money, Costs Time

eSchool News finally revealed their top education technology story of 2009 and the winner is (drum roll please …) “Digital textbooks open a new chapter in the history of U.S. education.”
Considering Kindle was the #1 bestselling produce on Amazon this Christmas season, it looks like the eBook phenomenon is no passing fad. Skeptics who groused [...]

Is E-commuting Practical for Students?

My primary office space is a corner of the couch in my living room. My office mates are a 10-month-old baby, two rambunctious cats, and my husband, who spends most of the day conducting conference calls in his bathrobe.
Because we both work in the field of communications (my husband is the editor for an online [...]

Technology Instruction Within the Lesson and Beyond

Educational instruction goes beyond the textbook and classroom exercises. Technology is all around us. It permeates the very essence of who we are and what we do.
An examination of the very classroom in which we teach today will expose us to more technology that we can teach throughout the year. It is all around [...]