Category: disruptive-technology
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Amidst K12Online07 launch, content control wars rage on in schools
Taylor the Teacher notes with sadness that after waiting weeks to finish start of school standardized testing / benchmark testing with students, learners of all ages awoke to a new content filter at school that blocks virtually ALL web 2.0 / read/write web content sites: District installed new Internet filter today because the other one…
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XO Laptop for Christmas?
I’ve posted some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog today related to the XO Laptop, a $200 price point for personal computers (see NPR’s Sept 24th report “Dell Chases Greater Share of Chinese Market”) and how each of us may be able to promote the cause of empowering youth to “invent the future” (in the…
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$100 (or $180) Laptop: Get One, Give One
Bob Sprankle alerted me on Saturday during our webcast to last week’s article “$100 laptop to boost uptake with donation scheme.” According to the article’s author: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is hoping to stimulate sales with a donation scheme that allows US residents to donate a laptop to a child in the developing world.…
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Living in the era of the digital cavemen and cavewomen
Remember the cartoon “Captain Caveman?” I’m sure I’m dating myself with this reference, but that was one of MANY cartoon favorites I remember watching growing up in the late 1970s. While that image and the memories it triggers bring a smile to my face and thoughts of, “Captaiiiinnnnnnn Caaaaaaaaveman,” the thought I had today related…
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Content filtering in Communist China versus an Oklahoma school
Today I am back on the road in Oklahoma, starting a series of seminars around the state related to the E-rate program for U.S. schools and libraries. Last week when I was in Shanghai, China, presenting at the Learning 2.0 conference, I reflected in a VoiceThread digital story about some of the differences in accessing…
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Notes from Gary Stager’s Learning 2.0 Session: 10 things to do with a laptop
I AM CURRENTLY ON THE FLIGHT FROM SHANGHAI TO TOKYO. THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE PODCAST OF GARY STAGER’S FINAL SESSION AT THE LEARNING 2.0 CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI LAST WEEKEND. (TYPHOON WIPHA SLOWED DOWN AS IT APPROACHED THE COAST OF CHINA, AND WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE OFF IN SLIGHTLY ELEVATED WINDS BUT OTHERWISE…
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Podcast194: Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools
This podcast is a recording of my final session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools.” The description of this session in the conference program was: Amazing new voice technologies are enabling classrooms…
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Podcast193: Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society
This podcast is a recording of my first morning session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society.” The description of this session in the conference program was: As Dr. Lawrence Lessig has observed, we…
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Photos and Impressions of Puxi, Shanghai
Well, my Shanghai wifi connection seems to be a bit faster and the Flickr uploader finally worked, although I had to upload these images from today in two batches. Here are a few highlights: This Citibank ATM machine worked like a charm today. How amazing is it to use a foreign ATM halfway around the…