Category: disruptive-technology
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Thoughts on DOPA
Great Bit by Bit podcast recently by Bob Sprankle and Cheryl Oakes on the proposed DOPA legislation in the US. Refer to their podcast shownotes for some good background links and other opinion pieces. I appreciated a lot of their insights– and I don’t think Bob digressed too much with his Star Wars analogy of…
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Podcast59: Interactive Podcasting– Asynchronous Online Audio Discussions
Podcasting, along with blogging, is playing a pivotal role in ushering in a new era of decentralized content publishing and idea sharing across the globe. Like any other tool, podcasting can be utilized in various ways to serve diverse purposes. This article examines two emerging read/write web technology services, YackPack and Vaestro, which are extending…
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Podcasting politicos
Podcasting continues to get more mainstream. According to yesterday’s article “Politicians Get Help in New Online Media:” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., responds on a weekly basis to questions on his blog. He also is among several politicians who have recorded podcasts, self-made audio or video broadcasts that can be downloaded from the Internet…
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Blogs like a neutron bomb!
Darren Kuropatwa describes the impact of using of blogs in his high school math classes as being “like a neutron bomb” in terms of their positive impact on teaching and learning in an outstanding skypecast posted by Dean Shareski recently. If you are not currently checking in with Dean (as well as Darren) on their…
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Video in schools and underlying pedagogies
Safari Montage is local school server-based “video on demand” solution that seeks to address multiple issues problematic for students and teachers accessing bandwidth-demanding video streams. Typically, schools have insufficient bandwidth out to the Internet to support large numbers of users simultaneously accessing video streams located on off-campus servers. This is just one reason I have…
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Lithium powered smart cars
I’ve heard about hybrid cars, like the Prius from Toyota that use a combination of gas and electrical power to run, but until last night I had not heard much about all-electric cars powered by lithium batteries. Hybrid Technologies is partnered with NASA and lots of other folks in creating these cars. One is is…
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Choices are more problematic than tools
Andy gets it. Why can’t more policymakers? In a comment response to his own blog post concerning proposed US legislation to fiat censorship of many read/write web and social networking websites in US schools and public libraries, Andy Carvin writes: The big problem here is that they’re trying to ban an entire class of online…
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Digital immigrants just don’t get it
Attention getting news item today posted by Andy Carvin and brought to my attention by David Warlick: “New Federal Legislation Would Ban Online Social Networks in Schools & Libraries.” According to Andy: As reported by C|NET, the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA, would update the federal law that currently requires all schools and libraries…
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Podcast57: Think.com and Digital Social Networking
Students generally exhibit high levels of motivation to socially communicate. They like to talk with each other, and in our digital world their desire to communicate often has digital forms. Rather than simply blocking all student access to digital social networking tools, teachers and school administrators should seek powerful tools and environments which permit them…
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Constructive uses of disruptive-tech are the key
Miguel wrote on Thursday: It’s irresponsible of me to advocate use of disruptive tech in schools to teachers who are at the bottom of the rung in decision-making. I am demanding, exhorting them to make changes, not in their teaching, but in the very fabric of their society. I respectfully disagree with some qualifications. We…