Author: Glen Bull

  • Digital History

    Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) suggests that each discipline offers unique opportunities to integrate technology into the curriculum. For example, history teachers and their students can now directly access the documents and artifacts that collectively comprise the historic record – letters, photographics, maps, illustrations, historic accounts in newspapers, etc. Projects such as Television News of…

  • Digital TV – TED Talks

    The TED (Technology / Entertainment / Design) conference is an invitation-only event that costs $6,000 to attend. An amazing and diverse group of thinkers present — folks like Ray Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines), Neil Gershenfend (Low-cost Fabrication), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Founder) Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), and Stephen Levitt (Freakanomics). Fortunately you don’t…

  • Effectiveness of Technology in Schools

    The most recent issue of the CITE Journal has just been published. This online, peer-reviewed journal focuses on technology and teaching. It is jointly sponsored by five teacher educator associations representing science education, math education, language arts, social studies, and educational technology. Truth in advertising: as editor, I’m probably biased about its value. That having…

  • Internet Connections

    Thanks, Wes, for the opportunity to interact with the “Speed of Creativity” community. My local Internet Service Provider (ISP) has been out of service this weekend, causing me to reflect on how quickly that the web has become an integral part of our lives. It first came into widespread use in the mid-1990s. A little…