Category: disruptive-technology
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Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train
This podcast is a bit of an ecclectic mix of ideas, song snippets, and educational project ideas. Foundationally, these relate to the idea that we’re going to have an enduring need to help younger students as well as older learners use digital tools in powerful, appropriate, and constructive ways. Whether we use the words citizen…
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Watch and Read Citizen Journalist Reports from the Inauguration Tuesday
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, will be a historic day in the history of my nation. Although we have our share of shortcomings and faults, the United States of America continues to provide a good example for the world in periodically demonstrating the capability of a large and powerful nation to peacefully transfer power from one…
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Harry Potter Whiteboard Wands, Responders, and the Palm Pre
I recently had a chance to see and try out the “Activwand” from Promethean designed for use with their electronic white boards. This wand is definitely cool and fun to use, making one feel a bit like Harry Potter. For shorter students or teachers, it can be handy to permit a longer reach to the…
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VoiceThread Vandalism and our need to encourage constructive media creation
Here in the United States, we live in a relatively free society compared to some other nations. North Korea and China come to mind first in this regard, but there are many others too where individual freedoms are more sharply limited and restricted. I highly value and treasure those freedoms, and try not to take…
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Don’t be awed by enhanced access to administrative academic data – Look for pedagogic changes instead!
What is the ideal mobile application for college students armed with iPhones, wanting information related to THEIR college life, courses and interests? According to a telecommunications company like AT&T, the answer may be something similar to iStanford, an application whose development received $10,000 from AT&T as the winner of the “Big Mobile on Campus” contest…
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Philip Randolph, civil rights, unions, and political change
Thanks to Greg Oppel and his presentation on December 6th at the Oklahoma Council for History Education symposium, “A. Philip Randolph: Service Not Servitude,” my wife and I watched the NetFlix movie “10,000 Black Men Named George” this evening. Philip Randolph was a courageous luminary from the U.S. civil rights movement who was not included…
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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…
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Thoughtfully considering the implications of multiple screens in our lives
This fall I’ve shared the Nokia advertisement “The 4th Screen” several times at educational conference presentations and with an adult class on digital technologies (mostly iTunes University) I taught at my church to discuss the implications of telecommunications convergence. These are some of the brainstormed responses audience members, adult students, and presentation participants have shared…
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Ustream chat moderation lessons and Coursecasting opinions
This past Thursday and Friday I attended and presented at our fall 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference. I used Ustream.tv to live-broadcast and archive four different sessions at the conference: My presentation “Webcasting on a Shoestring” Scott Charlson’s presentation “K12 Student Engagement: Beyond the 3:00 Bell” My presentation “Creating and Collaborating: The Keys…