Category: books
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Reminded About the Power of Student Centered Pedagogy
Yesterday I was blessed by the opportunity to attend and participate in day 2 of the 2018 LearnFest (@theLearnFest) Conference in Austin, Texas. LearnFest, or “The Learning Festival,” is Carl Hooker‘s (@mrhooker) new iteration of iPadPalooza. LearnFest joins a very short, personal list of top quality, amazing educational technology professional development events. These include The Mobile…
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Lessons Gleaned from the Life of Joseph Priestley
Tremendous benefits await those who generously share their ideas with others. Leaders should not shy away from the challenges of developing professional expertise in multiple domains. Regular collaboration and networking over excellent food and drink can prepare the mind as a fertile field for the cultivation of life-changing thoughts. New technologies can present novel opportunities…
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Share eBook Highlights from iBooks
This morning I taught the lesson for our Sunday School class as a substitute teacher, and in addition to my slides was able to share all my highlighted notes from the lesson’s chapter in our book, “Good to Great in God’s Eyes” by Chip Ingram. (@chipingram) In this post, I’ll share how I used the iBooks…
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Book Review: The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
Alec Ross’ (@AlecJRoss) February 2016 book, “The Industries of the Future,” offers a prescient and extremely important glimpse into the future of the global labor market. We can likely agree we are living in rapidly changing times, but it’s challenging to understand from a 100,000 foot perspective how advances in technology, communication and media are reshaping our economy,…
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Book Review: Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
“Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door” by Brian Krebs (@briankrebs) is an eye opening dive into the world of Internet spam, pharmaceutical drugs sold online, cyberattacks, malware, the dark web, and corruption within the Russian justice system. It should be required reading (or listening) for anyone working…
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10 Highlights from our Offline Colorado Vacation
The past week following ISTE and iPadPalooza, our family has been camping in the mountains of Colorado. While I’ve been completely offline (including Twitter) the same can’t be said for everyone in our family, since the times we drove into town for a grocery resupply or to catch the local drive-in movie (playing “Grease”) a flurry…
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Inspired by Ashley Vance’s Biography of Elon Musk
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) is not only an inspiring and fascinating person, he’s also one of the most important entrepreneurs of our times who is combining technology with hard work and engineering smarts to solve some extremely challenging problems we face as a human race. Today I finished listening to the biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (@valleyhack)…