Category: disruptive-technology
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International skypecast #2
Darren Kuropatwa, Ewan McIntosh, Miguel Guhlin and I are planning to do another international skypecast (including participants in Scotland, Canada, and the U.S.) this Thursday, March 16th at 2:30 pm central time. We are again using a wiki to collaborate not only on our scheduled date/time, but also to discuss what questions we’ll address. If…
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Bridging cultures
Next Tuesday, March 21st at 1:30 pm US Eastern time a session will be held at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando, Florida focusing on the question, “How effective are intercultural projects in bridging between different cultures?” The session will include live participants from Ireland and Israel, but is also open to others around the…
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Kids respond to Xanga publicity
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter this evening on the phone. She called to ask about student podcasting, and we discussed different schools in our state (Texas) as well as around the country who are using podcasts in creative ways. She told me an interesting story that happened about a year ago when…
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Videoconferencing across a state
In December, Jeff Allen helped put on a statewide videoconferencing event in Washington where students gave clues about their community to other participants, who then had 30 minutes to try and figure out where each student group lived. What fun! And what a great use of disruptive technology (classroom videoconferencing) to promote learning, critical thinking,…
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Podcast39: The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning
Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going with respect to teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States in the 21st Century? Do we want to just use technology to do traditional education more efficiently, or do we want to do education differently and better? In this presentation…
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iChat with Room 208 Scholars
Today in the workshop I facilitated for 22 teachers in Miami, Texas, we had a short, interactive videoconference with the 3rd and 4th grade scholars in Bob Sprankle’s Room 208 classroom in Wells, Maine. The principal of Miami School told the Maine students a little about the Miami school and community, and the Room208 students…
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Unimproved ends?
I have listened to about an hour of “A Knock at Midnight: Original Recordings of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.” as a purchased audiobook from the iTunes Music Store. I have really enjoyed it so far, and highly recommend it. Listening to the words of Dr. King, spoken himself in original recordings, is a powerful…
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Podcast32E: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
This is an enhanced podcast that can be played through iTunes, viewed as a webpage, or heard as a mp3 version (see the show notes.) 21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how…
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Podcast32: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how blogging and podcasting can be used to cultivate the digital literacy skills our students need for success today and tomorrow. Program Length: 39 min, 43…
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Free ideas & Pedagogy
I have posted previously about the ethic, which exists and will grow in strength, for the free / open sharing of academic ideas via Internet and web 2.0 technologies (“Following the Free”). In order to be relevant in the 21st century, ideas increasingly need to be available in free digital forms. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative is…