Category: disruptive-technology
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Fight involuntary TV consumption
Here’s a wonderful gift for that special someone in your life who has everything (or maybe even yourself): a TV-B-Gone remote control. Ever been irritated at an airport by the incessant rant of the CNN reporters on the TVs located by every departure gate? Ever notice how no one in your part of the airport…
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Censored for relevance
I have been saddened but also enlightened to learn in the last couple of weeks that this blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, is censored (blocked) within some– and perhaps many– Texas school districts. The reason? I have blogged in the past about the social networking site MySpace, and some (I don’t know how…
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Podcast50: Embrace Disruptive Technology Use
Rather than merely make traditional education more efficient through the use of technology, teachers should seek to transform teaching and learning by embracing disruptive uses of technology. Blogging, podcasting, wikis, digital storytelling, and other web 2.0 technologies can be employed in powerful and creative way in schools. As Mike Muir has observed, these tools have…
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Embrace Disruptive Technology Use
A couple weeks ago at the SITE Conference in Orlando, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Mike Muir, a professor of educational technology at the University of Maine at Farmington. I attended the panel presentation on 1:1 laptop learning Mike facilitated, titled “Lessons Learned from 1-to-1 Laptop Initiatives: Reflections on the Critical Components.” This…
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Informational Text and Literacy
Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast from March 25th titled “Informational Text and Literacy” is outstanding and well-worth listening to. The show is a rebroadcast of a staff development workshop in Wells, Maine, by Kevin Perks about the need to focus more on informational text (rather than just fiction) in our classrooms as we prepare…
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Podcast49: Open the Door – Conversation, Complexity, and Messy Assessment
Educators in all contexts need to open the door to authentic teaching and learning. Conversation, complexity, and messy assessment should be hallmarks of our classrooms and our schools. This presentation was shared as a keynote address at an educational leadership conference held in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 3, 2006. Program Length: 1 hr, 34…
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Measuring learning with seat time
By and large today in 2006, formal educational institutions measure learning with seat time. Sure, there are credit by examination tests that high school students can take to earn credit for courses, but for the most part, to get credit, you have to sit in class for X number of hours to be considered a…
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Skypecast from Windows with Hotrecorder
I have been approached for help by someone interested in recording audio interviews with people located in the Middle East, while they are here in North America. I suggested using Skype. The person is using a Windows-computer, however, so my personal skype-recording solution (Audio Hijack Pro) won’t work for them. I have found the software…
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Podcast47: In Defense of Encyclopedia Britannica
In December 2005, Nature magazine published a controversial article arguing that WikiPedia was as accurate at worst or more accurate at best (considering it’s comparably larger size) than Encyclopedia Britannica. Last week at the Florida Educational Technology Conference, a Britannica employee spoke out in defense of the accuracy and greater value of Britannica compared to…
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Podcast 40: Defining and Telling the New Story
Over the Pond and Through the Fiber #2: This international skypecast features educators from Canada, Scotland, and the United States defining and discussing the new story David Warlick has challenged us to help tell with our students. We probably raised more questions than we answered, but again it was exciting as well as empowering to…