Category: disruptive-technology
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iPhones are here!
Well, we attended our 7 year old’s performance culminating a week-long theater camp at the University of Central Oklahoma this evening, which precluded my standing in line for an iPhone at a local AT&T wireless store or our Oklahoma City Apple Store. Afterwards we drove by the closest corporate AT&T wireless store in Edmond– at…
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Nuggets from NECC (2)
Wow. NECC 2007 is officially over, and my brain is feeling pretty full. Yesterday was a day full of conversations in the hallways and at the EduBlogger lounge for me (along with my session in the afternoon.) Today was highlighted by several wonderful sessions, more hallway conversations, and a great series of lessons on advanced…
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From “Hand it In” to “Publish it”: Re-envisioning our Classrooms by Will Richardson
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM WILL RICHARDSON’S SESSION ON WEDNESDAY AT NECC 2007. WILL HAS VERY THOROUGH NOTES ON http://handitinnecc.wikispaces.com/. I’M LIVE BLOGGING THIS AND WILL WRITE “END OF NOTES” WHEN WE’RE FINISHED. I’M RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL POST SUBSEQUENTLY AS A PODCAST. The Saturday edubloggercon was a powerful meet-up – it was the…
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Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THIS SESSION AT NECC 2007. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. By Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss (the session title is other teachers from Ankara, Turkey and London, England We decided a few years ago we wanted to bring together all the things we’ve learned and seen with project based…
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Podcast158: Digitally Informed School Leadership for the 21st Century
This podcast was created and recorded on June 6, 2007, during a workshop with school principals and assistant principals in Humble ISD, near Houston, Texas. In the first section, administrators share instructional advice for new teachers. After a brief personal reflection, the podcast includes the culminating discussion between administrators who had read ideas from Doug…
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Live webcasting via Ustream
My work with educational technologies the past few years has convinced me we have entered the “publish at will” era of information sharing. This means (to me) that anyone with a computer and Internet connection can publish their thoughts via different modalities (text, audio, and video) for a global audience– without incurring additional expenses. This…
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Schools need to respond to the technological power play
According to Wiktionary: In ice hockey, a team is on power play when it has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team. In most U.S. K-12 schools teachers, administrators and parents are continually struggling against a “technological power play” which exists on at least two…
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Cell phone jammers at school?
The battles between the authoritarian forces in schools and the social, even anarchic forces in the seats of classrooms (moving at the speed of creativity in the minds of students) continue to rage. Cell phones remain contentious. How many schools will move beyond simply banning cell phones, to employing technologies which actually jam cell phone…