Category: disruptive-technology
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Drug violence in Mexico is bad: VERY bad
I spent a year living in Mexico City during 1992-1993 studying and writing about a variety of security issues including the U.S. led “war on drugs.” My longest paper from that research era, “US Drug Control in the Americas: Time for a Change,” reviewed historical and contemporary efforts (as of 1993) to combat the scourge…
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NECC button winner: “Here for the learning revolution!”
Dr. Scott Mcleod (over at Dangerously Irrelevant) and I have selected a winner for the button contest Scott announced back in April. That button and contest idea was inspired by my April 16th post and book title claim, “Here For The Learning Revolution.” The winning design was created by Bill Moseley: If you visit Bill’s…
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Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 – Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 3)
Welcome to episode six of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer discuss the important but controversial subject of using cell phones and other mobile devices for learning in K-12 as well as university classrooms. This podcast is the first…
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Digital Storytelling as THE Disruptive Change Agent for the 21st Century Learning Revolution
I’ve added a new session entitled “Digital Storytelling as THE Disruptive Change Agent for the 21st Century Learning Revolution” to the EduBloggerCon San Antonio 2008 Session Offers wiki page. The description I suggested is: The digital connections now possible via blogging and other social networking technologies are phenomenal and potentially transforming for educators around the…
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NECC 2008 Button Contest: The Learning Revolution
Scott McLeod has announced an official contest to develop a logo for the phrase, “I’m here for the learning revolution.” Scott’s idea for these buttons in advance of NECC 2008 and this contest was a motivator for my post last week about wanting to write a book with this title. Scott’s center (CASTLE) is paying…
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Podcast242: Solving the Publish At Will Challenge for K-12 Teachers with Podcast Producer
This podcast is a recording of a conversation I had with Kamala Jolly-Stewart of Mid-Del Schools in Midwest City, Oklahoma. For some time, I have viewed the ability of individuals with access to digital technologies and the web to publish their ideas and voices DIRECTLY on the global stage of the Internet as the ability…
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Connecting creativity, programming, and mobile learning
Gary Stager posted some questions in response to my TechLearning post on Friday, “Mobile web applications.” Gary asked: What do Alice, Storytelling Alice, and Scratch have to do with mobile computing? Why should computer science be relegated to club status? This was my response. Gary: The link I see here is that developers with programming…
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Amazed by the power of mobile applications
I’ve shared a new post on the TechLearning blog titled, “Mobile web applications.” Technorati Tags: iphone, mobile, cell, cellphone, learning
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Time to get on the mobile learning train!
Vanderbilt University’s iPhone content portal is an amazing information resource and reveals that the future of mobile learning is HERE for colleges and universities with leaders who understand the implications of and possibilities for convergence in higher education. (Thanks to Karen Montgomery for sharing this link!) Choices on the website include information about Admissions, Colleges…
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iPhone Web App explorations begin
It’s been about 3 weeks since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone software roadmap and released the iPhone SDK (software development kit.) Until this evening I had not taken time to explore the available web apps (web applications) for the iPhone. As I’ve watched a set of severe thunderstorms roll into our area (on TV) north…