Category: disruptive-technology
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The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Why The Next Generation of Online Learning Resets Everything to Zero! eLearn2005 presentation by Jonathan Levy, Senior Learning Strategiest for The Monitor Group (jlevy@monitor.com) http://www.jonathonlevy.com/ Jonathan authors numerous columns and is on the editorial board of Innovate magazine. If you want to ask, “what is happening?” Jonathan…
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Podcasting stirs more higher education debate
The October 20th Chicago Sun Times article “Missed class? Try a podcast” again reveals increasingly familiar battle lines on the topic of university professor lecture podcasts. On one side are the students, and some professors, claiming the technology provides more options for students to obtain class content and stay caught up. On the other side…
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Digital Literacy and the New Teacher Education
I have spent all morning reading and thinking about a very long but excellent article in the current (October 2005) edition of Educational Researcher. In “The New Teacher Education: For Better or For Worse?” (PDF) Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith provides an outstanding overview of the evolutionary changes taking place in teacher education in the United States.…
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ECAR 2005 study shows realities for digital natives
The “ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control and Learning” (PDF) should be required reading for educational administrators at all levels. At 134 pages long, it is doubtful many in our busy and harried culture will read the entire thing, but at the least each should read the Forward (4 pages…
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BitTorrent and iTunes
In last month’s article, “BitTorrent’s Grab at Respectability,” Business Week revealed the surprising attempt to move a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing program most closely associated with illegal movie downloads into the legal mainstream. I have never used BitTorrent (yet), but from what I have read the amazing thing about the technology is the…
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Professor fails to understand podcasting value
An article in today’s Daily Toreador, the newspaper of Texas Tech University, is titled “Podcasting lectures could be latest classroom tool.” The article reveals the fear and misunderstanding with which many college faculty are approaching the subject of podcasting. In the article, TTU Classics professor Dr. David Larmour articulates common fear number one: that if…
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Vlogging and free journalism
“Report It Now” is a grassroots video blogging (vblogging) initiative that again, offers a glimmer of how disruptive and exciting social technologies like RSS are and can be. Just think where we will be when thousands of students across the globe are armed with laptops and PC cameras, and are invited to be local news…
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Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation
Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of a few other educators, I made several changes and edits to my presentation for tomorrow, “Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation.” More images, and the theme of “literacy quest” were the main additions. Technorati Tags: tecsigfall2005 | podcasting | disruptive technology Technorati Tags: disruptive technology, podcasting, tecsigfall2005
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This revolution is personalized
We are in the midst of a Web 2.0 revolution. It was great fun to welcome 24 teachers in Miami, Texas (town population about 600, student school population about 118) today to the revolution. Many jumped in with both feet, with several even adding to the WikiPedia entry for Miami, Texas during the workshop. And…
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1:1 laptop initiatives move forward
Perhaps following the lead of visionary state governors like Angus King, Massachusetts state governor Mitt Romney proposed a plan last week that would provide a laptop computer for every student in grades 6-12 by 2007. The article quotes the following from the proposal: Pencils “are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for…