Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: luddite

  • Reconsider Google Love

    This may strike some readers and folks who have known me for years as educational technology heresy, but as a disciple of Neil Postman, I’m always eager to encourage more critical thinking about our uses of technology. I am writing to suggest we all seriously “reconsider our Google Love.” By this I mean we should…

  • Make Balance and Intentionality Your Screentime Education Goal

    A lot of adults are very upset there are so many digital screens in so many places today, especially in the hands of teenagers and pre-teens. This frustration and anxiety can manifest itself in multiple ways. In this post, I want to advocate for the idea that our frustration with screens and “screentime challenges” should…

  • Is the Pied Piper (electronic devices with screens) taking our kids away? by Neeti Kohli

    These are my notes from Dr. Neeti Kohli‘s presentation, “Is the Pied Piper (Electronic devices with screens) taking our kids away?” on October 1, 2013, at the Oklahoma Technology Association / EncycloMedia conference in Oklahoma City. Dr. Kohli is a medical doctor (anathesiologist) but is presenting today primarily as a parent (who happens to also…

  • Are virtual interactions REAL? A video answer from @danlovejoy

    Dan Lovejoy is a graduate student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program at Texas Tech University, and lives in the Oklahoma City area. Dan interviewed me and several others for his 7 minute, 40 second micro-documentary “Real/Virtual.” Among others, he asked participants over video to respond to the following questions: Have you had an…

  • Hyperconnectivity and Convergence are coming: Our schools need to embrace digital media NOW

    Telecommunications convergence is a topic with which I’ve grown increasingly familiar over the past few years, and I address frequently in blog posts, workshops, and conference keynote presentations. Convergence has BIG implications for learning. As digital devices become increasingly ubiquitous, people of all ages will have opportunities to access digital content (including video) in more…

  • A NO SCREENS Sunday afternoon

    I unilaterally declared a “no screens” afternoon today at our house, and the results were great although my announcement was initially not enthusiastically received. My wife and I have noticed that left to their own devices with access to Internet-connected laptops, television and to a lesser extent our family Wii, our children could easily spend…

  • Will the 4th screen bring us together?

    I saw the Nokia video advertisement “The Fourth Screen” yesterday for the first time when I watched Chris Abani’s TED Talk “Telling stories of our shared humanity” on my iPhone at lunch. The ad plays at the end of the TED talk. Here is the 2 minute and 22 second ad by itself on YouTube:…

  • The benefits of unplugging

    It is good but also somewhat tough to be back online after a full week offline in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. If we hadn’t returned home so late last night, driving through and between thunderstorms across the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma, I would have recorded a short video podcast to reflect on the…

  • Realize your dreams today, start virtually attending Stanford or MIT

    When I was growing up and especially when I was in high school considering college options, the thought of attending a top-tier school like Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton certainly crossed my mind. Although I had been encouraged by several to pursue an engineering college track (because of the flexible preparation it would provide in equipping…

  • When mainstream media publicity is harmful

    Andy Carvin’s post “An Open Letter About Cyberbullying” is a reasonably toned response to Mathew Honan of Wired Magazine’s recent article “Beware These Six Lamest Social Networks.” Honan takes unnecessary aim at the “Stop Cyberbullying” Ning which Andy helps administer. It’s sad to see a mainstream media source author take a potshot at an excellent…